I have four Dell servers running a $30 million dollar company on Windows. Two database servers (only because the software vendor will void your contract if you have any kind of SQL instance besides theirs running), a web server (which the Dell Sales Engineer rightly called my specs "overkill" and saved us $4000) and a File/Everything Else server.
I have their Gold support and get somebody on the phone immediately. I've only had two instances in the past 8 years where someone had to come out and they were there way within the 2 hour guarantee, knew what they were doing and fixed the problem. Both of those were tape drive instances by the way. One was our fault, someone put a tape that had been dropped and got bent into the library and it jammed in the drive.
My Dell servers just sit there and work. You ever stop and think that maybe, just maybe the people who write the applications that are used to run a company may be at fault? You know, those guys called software vendors. Or do you just consider the hardware vendor the problem.
Seriously, what's with all the Dell hate, are they the flavor of the month? You want to bash on HP too...I've got a Proliant 1600 still humming along since 1996. Dual Pentium II's baby!
I really wonder how many people who make comments like the above have ever worked in(or for that matter, been allowed into) a real business.
You are referring to Page 18 of April's issue. Hmm, this reminds me of Page 16 in last month's issue where we learned how to integrate Facebook data. And wasn't the month before that how to make a calculator using Bash?
But that's beside the point, go read some history on BBS's, Usenet, actual computer club meetings where people met face to face (Hello Tandy Users Group). Better app? Is that what's its come down to, who has the better social app? Go create 3rd life or Sims:Ron Jeremy or something.
I'm an IT manager by trade. I don't care who provides my company with software or what platform it runs on, as long as the business I provide IT for benefits from it and it is cost-effective, ideally giving me an advantage over my company's own competitors. The changes in UI between MS Office XP (which they're mostly using now), 2003 and especially 2007 are big enough that I have to retrain my users to use them, and frankly the cost of training my users to use 2007 is enough that I've been seriously considering moving them to OpenOffice.org.
Obviously not a very good IT manager by your post.
1. Its a good thing you don't care what your company uses and have no interest in the decision, I mean as a manager and stuff.
2. Um, how is the standard business application going to give you an advantage over competitors.
3. So, you're willing to spend the money on an Office upgrade but won't because the user interfaces are so different and don't want to spend the money to retrain your employees so you'll switch to an entirely different program that of course because its free you won't have to spend any money training your employees.
Did that last one make sense? No, kind of like how Microsoft bashing posts get 3 insightful. Cult of Apple...screw that..Cult of Slashdot.
1. No matter where you go, college is a ton of fun. You'll meet great people, get laid a lot, learn some very interesting things and get laid a lot. Friends from college (for better or worse) tend to be friends for life.
2. No matter where you go make sure you throw in some non-CS classes. Take history, political science, and one or two philosophy courses. You'll be shocked at how handy the stuff you learn from these will help out in a corporate environment.
3. If in the middle of a project for class that is killing you your roommate/friend/random person comes in and says "there's a great house party tonight!" - Turn off the computer and go to the party. See point one, or watch Real Genius...Mitch "got it".
4. Always keep in the back of your mind that there is a good possibility that you'll never use 90% of what you learn. On my first day my boss said, "All that stuff you learned in class, forget it. We're going to teach you how its really done." See point two.
5. Get laid alot
6. Take every opportunity that comes up when an internship/fellowship/tour is offered. Remember the names of the people you meet, contact them a couple of times a year. Hell, send a Christmas card. If a potential employee sees that as aggressive, you don't want to work there. Most of us understand that you're still a kid and take that into account.
7.If the school you go to has a Naked Run, do it. It will be the most liberating thing you've done up to that point in your life.
8. Its freakin' college. The first two years mean nothing. Enjoy it, its the last time you'll be in that situation.
Good luck to you.
And for god's sake, don't forget point five. This is perhaps the singlemost important thing about college.
"The #1 problem with Javascript is that everyone "learned" it from cutesy little toolbar/cursor scripts rather than actually learning the language."
Man, you really sound like a giant dick. At least they took the time to learn something.
But wait...
Lucky for them, I mostly looking for smart people I can train. I've only met one other person IRL who even knew how to code Javascript properly.
You want someone who is smart...BUT not smarter than you. Hmm...starting to see an inferior complex.
Ding ding ding ding...yes superior Javascript guy, your javascript (still laughing) code is superior.
Ass
is why these threads should be posted on the RELEVANT website. You got "zap2it is out of blah blah blah" which happened along time ago. How the hell does Slashdot make money. Simple, retards.
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Thanks for the heads up there! This has been known for three years and you suck.
In my opinion this was the pinnacle of IBM (Yes, mine says IBM Thinkpad on it) and their laptops. We've bought T61's since I got my T60 two years ago and I hate supporting them. My T60 just works. It plays Oblivion, my movies and music and I've seen it sit for two weeks in standby mode with the lid closed.
It is also the most durable laptop I've ever had and I beat the hell out of my laptops. Traveling, punching it (see Oblivion above), dropping it, knocking it around during my job.
And yes, I'm old. My first "portable" was this:
http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ibmportfy0.jpg
It notes that the WHO official who raised the alarm on the Gates Foundation's unintended consequences on world health research is "an openly undiplomatic official who won admiration for reorganizing the world fight against tuberculosis but was ousted from that job partly because he offended donors like the Rockefeller Foundation."
Hmm, I read this as "tried to get as much money as possible from charities because I know the sponsors are flush".
If I gave $30 billion (I don't care how it was made, it was) of my money and decided I wanted the recipients to figure out how to make monkeys dance while playing cards and whistling Sheena is a Punk Rocker, than they better damn well figure out how to do it.
You retards who still do the "Bill Gates is Evil, Micro$oft is the devil"...grow up. You wouldn't be even typing on your computer right now if it wasn't for Microsoft. Its business, deal with it.
You don't like it, steal something better, make something better, market it better, and convince everyone that you're product's better.
And when you do and you're successful and rich...what would you be willing to do when someone comes up with a better idea? Will you kill it, will you buy it, or will you pour money into a competitor?
For all the crap that you think Bill Gates has done, he and his wife have done a lot more for the planet than you mouth breathers.
Every business you've seen runs on those three software products...evidently you've never been around a business involving more than two people.
Point of Sale Systems Databases Financial Management System (other than Quickbooks) Inventory (haha don't even try to say Quickbooks) Payroll Insurance Bridges between this software
I bet you still wear your baseball cap backwards.
You know the interesting thing? Most of those were written by people years ago because there was no company making them. Go spout somewhere else.
We used to have a Canon CLC900 that used an O2 as the ripper. I loved that little blue toaster. It was cool looking, powerful, and it looked like a blue toaster.
I haven't had a color printer since that is truly WYSIWYG since.
200gb? I believe whoever purchases your IT stuff must be getting a kick back. The new Core 2 Lenovo's were buying are just now coming with 80gb drives.
Windoze? Haha, haven't heard that before.
Fault tolerant distributed storage using employees computers. Hang on, I'm laughing to hard to type.
Okay, I'm good. These are the same employees who do things like have portable heaters underneath their desks that point at the PC. They kick them, roll their chairs into them, stack crap on and around them, spill stuff, drop crumbs, reboot whenever they feel like it and generally abuse the hell out of them.
I got a question though...what have you done lately other than be a mouth. And your Wikipedia article makes it sound like your shit don't stink.
I've been around a long time also, and I remember when people would roll their eyes and distance themselves from you. You pop your head up when your name is fading and throw things like, "I canonized" or "When Richard and I were in Italy" like that somehow makes you relevant anymore.
Also I love the whole "my blog is a mature Slashdot" reference.
I work in a company of 2000 people and I've never had a single person ask me about OpenID. You know why? Because they have no idea what it is. Its not advertised, marketed or pushed and there's a reason behind that.
OpenID and the government know how people reacted to the idea of a universal ID(drivers license) and decided it would be easier to sneak it in (AOL, Yahoo, Livejournal) than tell people about it.
AOL - Covers a lot of older Americans Yahoo - Covers average Joe who just wants to be on the Internet LiveJournal - dumb ass kids and 20 somethings who are to clueless to care
That's a crap load of the American public right there. I have read up on OpenID and it reminds me of Adult Check back in the 90's. I have one account for all my porn. One account that one company is in control of...does anyone see the giant pitfall here?
There is so much about your post that completely validates the parent post.
Shouldn't we just start calling it SlashBlog?
- No fact checking : Check
- Multiple Posts of same story : Check
- None of the "people in charge" want to take responsibility : Check
- BS to Real Info has fallen to 0 : Check
This is crap. Thirty years ago was early 1978, I was three years old and my dad busted his ass to make things better for us.
And if you don't think that people are picking up as much overtime as they can and aren't asking "Well, college fund or steak tonight" then you have no grasp of reality. Have you looked at the average cost of school even with scholarships?
Your student loan/scholarship thing...do you think any parent would want their child to have to go through the same 10-20 year bullshit they had to go through paying off student loans? Do you live in a gated community or something? Do you have kids? Are you over the age of 18? Do you understand money? Do you have any inkling of how the real world works?
Those loans/financial aid have to paid at some point or...fuck that...I just re-read your post, saw the blue collar comment and really want to kick your ass.
You are naive.
It took me 16 years of hard work to get where I am now and I value every bit of it.
I haven't seen a single person install Linux all year.
You know what I see.
Big damn Blade servers running non-Linux OS's using Linux variants in a virtual machine setting.
1993-200* was the year of Linux. Nobody cares anymore. We all learned our lesson 8 years ago.
Fuck talking about 15 year old technology and move on. Watching a penguin slide down a hill with hard as shit controls and crappy graphics while calling it "Groundbreaking" does not make me believer. Nor does OpenOffice, or Fire "Give me memory...what, you only have 600gigs? I'll eat your pagefile then!!!!!!!" Fox or Mplayer with all the fucking plugins you have to install.
Ubuntu = Vista Linux - I don't want to have to supply a password for every thing I want to do. Who thought that was a good idea?
No offense but you must have been raised in some backwater county to expect us to believe that you've lived in the USA, Belgium and Israel with that shitty grammar. English, do you speak it? Those three countries do and speak it well.
"The problem, from what I understood was more of the CEO and his wife using the companies funds as their personal bank account. Even if not, though,"
Yes, the old I heard it was true but don't have any evidence excuse.
Loki was a fantastic concept and I contributed to it. The problem is:
Company programs for DirectX, which is supported, documented and supplied by a company that isn't going anywhere soon.
Company programs for OpenGL, then Pango, then SDL, then Audacity, then Oscar and Theora and Fedora and Unbuntu and KDE and Gnome and QT and whatever.
All of which have basically hung on by a thread. Let's go through the "Linux Desktop Revolution" distro's.
Slackware Suse (openSuse now) RedHat (Fedora) Mandrake (Mandravia) OpenBSD (STILL RUNS THE INTERNET JERK!) NetBSD (RUNS THE INTERNET AND KICKS ALL OTHER BSD'S ASSES) FreeBSD (Huh? What's going on?) Debian (King of the World, but why isn't my computer running it?)
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I have four Dell servers running a $30 million dollar company on Windows. Two database servers (only because the software vendor will void your contract if you have any kind of SQL instance besides theirs running), a web server (which the Dell Sales Engineer rightly called my specs "overkill" and saved us $4000) and a File/Everything Else server.
I have their Gold support and get somebody on the phone immediately. I've only had two instances in the past 8 years where someone had to come out and they were there way within the 2 hour guarantee, knew what they were doing and fixed the problem. Both of those were tape drive instances by the way. One was our fault, someone put a tape that had been dropped and got bent into the library and it jammed in the drive.
My Dell servers just sit there and work. You ever stop and think that maybe, just maybe the people who write the applications that are used to run a company may be at fault? You know, those guys called software vendors. Or do you just consider the hardware vendor the problem.
Seriously, what's with all the Dell hate, are they the flavor of the month? You want to bash on HP too...I've got a Proliant 1600 still humming along since 1996. Dual Pentium II's baby!
I really wonder how many people who make comments like the above have ever worked in(or for that matter, been allowed into) a real business.
You are referring to Page 18 of April's issue. Hmm, this reminds me of Page 16 in last month's issue where we learned how to integrate Facebook data. And wasn't the month before that how to make a calculator using Bash?
But that's beside the point, go read some history on BBS's, Usenet, actual computer club meetings where people met face to face (Hello Tandy Users Group). Better app? Is that what's its come down to, who has the better social app? Go create 3rd life or Sims:Ron Jeremy or something.
'cause nobody's asked the real question:
Why are you worried about stuff being stolen instead of why you got moved from an office to a cube?
You completely ignored it in your post. Are they remodeling your office or is denial going on?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Obviously not a very good IT manager by your post.
1. Its a good thing you don't care what your company uses and have no interest in the decision, I mean as a manager and stuff.
2. Um, how is the standard business application going to give you an advantage over competitors.
3. So, you're willing to spend the money on an Office upgrade but won't because the user interfaces are so different and don't want to spend the money to retrain your employees so you'll switch to an entirely different program that of course because its free you won't have to spend any money training your employees.
Did that last one make sense? No, kind of like how Microsoft bashing posts get 3 insightful. Cult of Apple...screw that..Cult of Slashdot.
I'd like to make a few points here.
1. No matter where you go, college is a ton of fun. You'll meet great people, get laid a lot, learn some very interesting things and get laid a lot. Friends from college (for better or worse) tend to be friends for life.
2. No matter where you go make sure you throw in some non-CS classes. Take history, political science, and one or two philosophy courses. You'll be shocked at how handy the stuff you learn from these will help out in a corporate environment.
3. If in the middle of a project for class that is killing you your roommate/friend/random person comes in and says "there's a great house party tonight!" - Turn off the computer and go to the party. See point one, or watch Real Genius...Mitch "got it".
4. Always keep in the back of your mind that there is a good possibility that you'll never use 90% of what you learn. On my first day my boss said, "All that stuff you learned in class, forget it. We're going to teach you how its really done." See point two.
5. Get laid alot
6. Take every opportunity that comes up when an internship/fellowship/tour is offered. Remember the names of the people you meet, contact them a couple of times a year. Hell, send a Christmas card. If a potential employee sees that as aggressive, you don't want to work there. Most of us understand that you're still a kid and take that into account.
7.If the school you go to has a Naked Run, do it. It will be the most liberating thing you've done up to that point in your life.
8. Its freakin' college. The first two years mean nothing. Enjoy it, its the last time you'll be in that situation.
Good luck to you.
And for god's sake, don't forget point five. This is perhaps the singlemost important thing about college.
"The #1 problem with Javascript is that everyone "learned" it from cutesy little toolbar/cursor scripts rather than actually learning the language." Man, you really sound like a giant dick. At least they took the time to learn something. But wait... Lucky for them, I mostly looking for smart people I can train. I've only met one other person IRL who even knew how to code Javascript properly. You want someone who is smart...BUT not smarter than you. Hmm...starting to see an inferior complex. Ding ding ding ding...yes superior Javascript guy, your javascript (still laughing) code is superior. Ass
Another one page story that has to take up eleven so the website gets ad revenue!
That's one of the most annoying things. Here's a vaporware prediction for you:
IN 2008, CNET PLANS WILL NOT HAVE 10,000 MONKEYS WITH 10,000 TYPEWRITERS PRODUCING THEIR STORIES!
is why these threads should be posted on the RELEVANT website. You got "zap2it is out of blah blah blah" which happened along time ago. How the hell does Slashdot make money. Simple, retards.
Thanks for the heads up there! This has been known for three years and you suck.
In my opinion this was the pinnacle of IBM (Yes, mine says IBM Thinkpad on it) and their laptops. We've bought T61's since I got my T60 two years ago and I hate supporting them. My T60 just works. It plays Oblivion, my movies and music and I've seen it sit for two weeks in standby mode with the lid closed.
It is also the most durable laptop I've ever had and I beat the hell out of my laptops. Traveling, punching it (see Oblivion above), dropping it, knocking it around during my job.
And yes, I'm old. My first "portable" was this:
http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ibmportfy0.jpg
I don't forget the military. Didn't it used to be:
"An army moves on its stomach" - Supply Lines
Then it was:
"An army moves on a sea of paper"
Now its:
"An army moves on Powerpoint Presentations"
Not a knock on the military.
Patrick J. Dempsey, your post advocates a:
( ) viewing party with your "telescope"
( ) ride on your "lawn" mower
( ) a JFK smile
(x) all of the above and more!
Oh Patrick, you can't buy Slashdot's love but you can buy mine!
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity4.fortune/
If I gave $30 billion (I don't care how it was made, it was) of my money and decided I wanted the recipients to figure out how to make monkeys dance while playing cards and whistling Sheena is a Punk Rocker, than they better damn well figure out how to do it.
You retards who still do the "Bill Gates is Evil, Micro$oft is the devil"...grow up. You wouldn't be even typing on your computer right now if it wasn't for Microsoft. Its business, deal with it.
You don't like it, steal something better, make something better, market it better, and convince everyone that you're product's better.
And when you do and you're successful and rich...what would you be willing to do when someone comes up with a better idea? Will you kill it, will you buy it, or will you pour money into a competitor?
For all the crap that you think Bill Gates has done, he and his wife have done a lot more for the planet than you mouth breathers.
Really?
Every business you've seen runs on those three software products...evidently you've never been around a business involving more than two people.
Point of Sale Systems
Databases
Financial Management System (other than Quickbooks)
Inventory (haha don't even try to say Quickbooks)
Payroll
Insurance
Bridges between this software
I bet you still wear your baseball cap backwards.
You know the interesting thing? Most of those were written by people years ago because there was no company making them. Go spout somewhere else.
We used to have a Canon CLC900 that used an O2 as the ripper. I loved that little blue toaster. It was cool looking, powerful, and it looked like a blue toaster.
I haven't had a color printer since that is truly WYSIWYG since.
200gb? I believe whoever purchases your IT stuff must be getting a kick back. The new Core 2 Lenovo's were buying are just now coming with 80gb drives.
Windoze? Haha, haven't heard that before.
Fault tolerant distributed storage using employees computers. Hang on, I'm laughing to hard to type.
Okay, I'm good. These are the same employees who do things like have portable heaters underneath their desks that point at the PC. They kick them, roll their chairs into them, stack crap on and around them, spill stuff, drop crumbs, reboot whenever they feel like it and generally abuse the hell out of them.
You made my day.
Yes, you are the man! Open Source is yours.
I got a question though...what have you done lately other than be a mouth. And your Wikipedia article makes it sound like your shit don't stink.
I've been around a long time also, and I remember when people would roll their eyes and distance themselves from you. You pop your head up when your name is fading and throw things like, "I canonized" or "When Richard and I were in Italy" like that somehow makes you relevant anymore.
Also I love the whole "my blog is a mature Slashdot" reference.
Go away.
I work in a company of 2000 people and I've never had a single person ask me about OpenID. You know why? Because they have no idea what it is. Its not advertised, marketed or pushed and there's a reason behind that.
OpenID and the government know how people reacted to the idea of a universal ID(drivers license) and decided it would be easier to sneak it in (AOL, Yahoo, Livejournal) than tell people about it.
AOL - Covers a lot of older Americans
Yahoo - Covers average Joe who just wants to be on the Internet
LiveJournal - dumb ass kids and 20 somethings who are to clueless to care
That's a crap load of the American public right there. I have read up on OpenID and it reminds me of Adult Check back in the 90's. I have one account for all my porn. One account that one company is in control of...does anyone see the giant pitfall here?
I love you guys. You're the reason I have shitloads of stock in Alcoa Inc.!
Your concept of reality is frightening as is your concept of history.
There is so much about your post that completely validates the parent post.
Shouldn't we just start calling it SlashBlog?
- No fact checking : Check
- Multiple Posts of same story : Check
- None of the "people in charge" want to take responsibility : Check
- BS to Real Info has fallen to 0 : Check
LINUX!!!!!!!!
This is insightful?
This is crap. Thirty years ago was early 1978, I was three years old and my dad busted his ass to make things better for us.
And if you don't think that people are picking up as much overtime as they can and aren't asking "Well, college fund or steak tonight" then you have no grasp of reality. Have you looked at the average cost of school even with scholarships?
Your student loan/scholarship thing...do you think any parent would want their child to have to go through the same 10-20 year bullshit they had to go through paying off student loans? Do you live in a gated community or something? Do you have kids? Are you over the age of 18? Do you understand money? Do you have any inkling of how the real world works?
Those loans/financial aid have to paid at some point or...fuck that...I just re-read your post, saw the blue collar comment and really want to kick your ass.
You are naive.
It took me 16 years of hard work to get where I am now and I value every bit of it.
Eat me "white collar" boy.
You're IT department consists of you and you're imaginary friend doesn't it. Eat me.
Have you actually worked with real employees? My guess is no, and they probably would want to kick your ass if you did.
You know where those numbers come from? Zealots.
I haven't seen a single person install Linux all year.
You know what I see.
Big damn Blade servers running non-Linux OS's using Linux variants in a virtual machine setting.
1993-200* was the year of Linux. Nobody cares anymore. We all learned our lesson 8 years ago.
Fuck talking about 15 year old technology and move on. Watching a penguin slide down a hill with hard as shit controls and crappy graphics while calling it "Groundbreaking" does not make me believer. Nor does OpenOffice, or Fire "Give me memory...what, you only have 600gigs? I'll eat your pagefile then!!!!!!!" Fox or Mplayer with all the fucking plugins you have to install.
Ubuntu = Vista Linux - I don't want to have to supply a password for every thing I want to do. Who thought that was a good idea?
Is this sarcasm, or are you 12 years old.
Or another thread to promote ads?
No offense but you must have been raised in some backwater county to expect us to believe that you've lived in the USA, Belgium and Israel with that shitty grammar. English, do you speak it? Those three countries do and speak it well.
"The problem, from what I understood was more of the CEO and his wife using the companies funds as their personal bank account. Even if not, though,"
Yes, the old I heard it was true but don't have any evidence excuse.
Loki was a fantastic concept and I contributed to it. The problem is:
Company programs for DirectX, which is supported, documented and supplied by a company that isn't going anywhere soon.
Company programs for OpenGL, then Pango, then SDL, then Audacity, then Oscar and Theora and Fedora and Unbuntu and KDE and Gnome and QT and whatever.
All of which have basically hung on by a thread. Let's go through the "Linux Desktop Revolution" distro's.
Slackware
Suse (openSuse now)
RedHat (Fedora)
Mandrake (Mandravia)
OpenBSD (STILL RUNS THE INTERNET JERK!)
NetBSD (RUNS THE INTERNET AND KICKS ALL OTHER BSD'S ASSES)
FreeBSD (Huh? What's going on?)
Debian (King of the World, but why isn't my computer running it?)