I personally think a candidate gets a fairly gruelling day...
Do you control the entire day, or do you allow the prospective employee the option of implementing their personal stress reliever? eg Would I be allowed to take my normal 10-40 minute nap during lunch? (A catnap is medically proven to make a person more awake and effective)
Sounds like the president and vice-presidents need to attend a senior leve l IT workshop for presidents and vice presidents. Let them hear the experience of others in the same size companies and situations. Such information coming from their peers is less frightening than from the employees.
How do you get them to attend? Find a good workshop in a pleasant Florida or San Diego setting; then convince the spouses they need a vacation while the senior management attends the workshop. Then convince the spouses to keep the senior management away for another week to think subconciously about all the information they heard.
Yes, I know (bad analogy). Yes, I know (Guinness water dispute).
I took the Guinness brewery tour, drank to the health of the Irish from the bar on the top of the tallest builing in Dublin -- the Guinness brewery. This poor analogy is a fiction created on the Guinness story.
Suppose you are brewery whose product basically defines the character of this capital city. Beer sales are good locally and abroad; and secondary effects from tourism and transportation employment have a positive effect. Therefore, the city thinks the water provided to the brewery is worth more; and tries to charge the brewery above and beyond. Not only that; but any establishment which sells this beer has to pay more for sewage fees.
Ultimate effect -- beer prices soar, sales plummet, beer production falls, pubs close all across the city, men have to spend time with their wives while sober, and professional sports become whole lot less interesting. Financial, social, and emotional doomsday.
I don't subscribe. I don't click on advertisements. I have not ever paid a single advertiser on Slashdot for their product/service/annoyance.
Free software improvements! I like it!
I am really afraid the suits at Disney will instead incarcerate the creativity from Pixar in a small, poorly lighted warehouse on the outskirst of Disneydom therby inducing an unrecoverable state of mediocrity. The impact of mediocrity will be heralded by hidden Mickeys in Pixar movies in an attempt to gain attention from the Disney suits.
All security settings and interfaces are a right-click & multiple tab/button click deep. The command line security structure (sdset & sdshow) are obtuse beyond understanding. This makes security administration difficult, time consuming, and expensive. When will Microsoft create a security and permissions interface which is detailed, graphical, configurable with XML templates, and capable of being set as the default view both per individual user/system and enforced thru Group Policy?
You may not like this file system ; but it works. Set up some shares with Samba on your Linux boxen with RAID; and use one Windows 2003 server for the replication. A logical file system with redundancy.
You may all mod me down now....
Using an inadequate command line environment to enter impossibly long and complicated paths to commands (whose parameters are little or obscurely documented) with obscure logging results written tersely to a proprietary and poorly managable database -- then repeat the process to log, monitor, explore, and hopefully solve the problem with a parameter change.
OR
Buy new hardware for each application and reboot the OS daily.
Becoming a true Windows admin is not financially feasible in most environments.
1. Never use the user's mouse -- unless you know and approve of where the finger has been.
2. Never use the user's keyboard -- see #1 and multiply by 10.
3. The user's keyboard usually contains items which did not stay in the user's mouth. Bring your own keyboard.
4. If hygenic input devices are not available, create a reason to work on the tower in your space where hygenic input devices are available.
5. If the system cannot be removed, engage the user. Make the user root/administrator thru remote interfaces; then direct the user thru the steps to correct the problem.
6. If you must use the user's input devices, maintain a supply of surgical scrub solutions in your personal toolkit.
Sand.
Forget the software, clean out the hardware. If you have a standard laptop, disassemble the unit and blow all the sand out: fan, CPU cooler, air intake channels, keyboard, etc. Sand is one of the most physically abrasive and destructive items to get pulled thru an air cooled PC. Don't just blow air thru the laptop while fully assembled! You will have just sandblasted a random component inside the laptop.
Some laptops are easy to disassemble, some are hard. Call your laptop manufacturers tech support and ask them to walk you thru the procedure. I suggest you visit your local Fry's first and get a 7 piece set of jewelers/eyeglass/laptop repair screwdrivers with chip puller. (the chip puller is useful for removing those ingenious cable connecters which don't have pull straps -- specifically power connectors to the CPU fan.)
... I hate to break it to you, but training someone to come to work on time, and how to deal with customers is not training them.
Unfortunately, basic businees skills are the most important training many a geek will ever receive; and far too often is the training they do not receive. In filling our last Linux admin position, I received a plethora of "skilled" resumes. One by one the propective employees were winnowed down because they lacked the following basic business skills:
cooperation: this skilled candidate systematically drove all other IT personnel out, tried to run IT for an entire school district single-handedly, and was forced to hire more personnel instead of working 80+ hour weeks.
communication: this skilled candidate was a walking treasure trove of useful information; but failed to answer the question he was asked every single time.
customer service: this technically apt candidate chose to engage in confrontational debate on the technical thoroughness and specificity of every question we asked.
And the winning candidate has specifically stated his personnel priority at this time is his employment; yet, cannot manage to arrive on time consistently, work a 40 hour week, or complete a task without calling, being called, or IMing his wife/brother/sister/random friend. This candidate specifically wanted the job so he could learn from us. He has been informed the most important lessons he will learn are not of the technical nature; but the business skills he lacks.
If your gravy train is NOT applications for accounting, inventory control, transportation logistics, conference coordination, facilities maintenance, ad nauseum.....mabye. Software which effectively supports the basic funtions of business will always be proprietary. How many unemployed/underemployed/OSS coders will write software whose most visually appealing feature is a massive table of dreary data based on real facts?
If the author of this drivel had ever run a business, he never would have spent the resources to write this article.
I see at least one reason you reference yourself to a weasel...get a fatter pipe to the Internet! Then you can download measly 1.1M files. Stop using that obsolete and cheap dial-up connection (digital to analog to digital to analog...ad nauseum).
12 miles is a negative projection. Let's use a more motivated projection. (I am assuming a hurricane is motivation, of course. ) At 4mph, 12 hours of sunlight, and 10 hours of walking, motivated pedestrians could cover 40 miles.
If we make a negative assumption on origination and destination and start from Nunez Community College with a destination of downtown Lutcher, the distance is 52 miles. With motivation, this is not an unreasonable goal -- assuming the pedestrian is motivated to leave BEFORE the hurricane arrives. Since this is also a negative projection on starting point, many of these people would have had a shorter walk and could have walked to a safe destination.
Please don't misconstrue facts and lack of common sense, discipline, and motivation.
...Most people can only walk 2 to 4 miles an hour and they can only do that for about 6 hrs if they are in average shape
Please quote your source for these "facts". Also, a disciplined and motivated person can easily exceed the average for a short stretch of days. As I posted, most of these people lack the will, sense, and discipline to control their own destiny. This lack is often the precursor to "economic disadvantage" in the USA -- not fate. I only require the people given standard human equipment to use that equipment to help themselves; not whine out loud to any news camera that no one is helping them. [insert deity] helps those who help themselves.
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I have no idea how this statement applies; it just seems appropriate.
Do you control the entire day, or do you allow the prospective employee the option of implementing their personal stress reliever? eg Would I be allowed to take my normal 10-40 minute nap during lunch? (A catnap is medically proven to make a person more awake and effective)
This sound suspiciously like another game
As in all the proteins near a human beings midsection/buttocks/thighs?
I suggest implementing protection before installation.
How do you get them to attend? Find a good workshop in a pleasant Florida or San Diego setting; then convince the spouses they need a vacation while the senior management attends the workshop. Then convince the spouses to keep the senior management away for another week to think subconciously about all the information they heard.
I took the Guinness brewery tour, drank to the health of the Irish from the bar on the top of the tallest builing in Dublin -- the Guinness brewery. This poor analogy is a fiction created on the Guinness story.
Suppose you are brewery whose product basically defines the character of this capital city. Beer sales are good locally and abroad; and secondary effects from tourism and transportation employment have a positive effect. Therefore, the city thinks the water provided to the brewery is worth more; and tries to charge the brewery above and beyond. Not only that; but any establishment which sells this beer has to pay more for sewage fees.
Ultimate effect -- beer prices soar, sales plummet, beer production falls, pubs close all across the city, men have to spend time with their wives while sober, and professional sports become whole lot less interesting. Financial, social, and emotional doomsday.
I don't subscribe. I don't click on advertisements. I have not ever paid a single advertiser on Slashdot for their product/service/annoyance. Free software improvements! I like it!
The lamp is gonna get mouse ears -- no doubt about it. Hey, maybe Steve will get an ear job too!
I am really afraid the suits at Disney will instead incarcerate the creativity from Pixar in a small, poorly lighted warehouse on the outskirst of Disneydom therby inducing an unrecoverable state of mediocrity. The impact of mediocrity will be heralded by hidden Mickeys in Pixar movies in an attempt to gain attention from the Disney suits.
All security settings and interfaces are a right-click & multiple tab/button click deep. The command line security structure (sdset & sdshow) are obtuse beyond understanding. This makes security administration difficult, time consuming, and expensive. When will Microsoft create a security and permissions interface which is detailed, graphical, configurable with XML templates, and capable of being set as the default view both per individual user/system and enforced thru Group Policy?
You may not like this file system ; but it works. Set up some shares with Samba on your Linux boxen with RAID; and use one Windows 2003 server for the replication. A logical file system with redundancy. You may all mod me down now....
Using an inadequate command line environment to enter impossibly long and complicated paths to commands (whose parameters are little or obscurely documented) with obscure logging results written tersely to a proprietary and poorly managable database -- then repeat the process to log, monitor, explore, and hopefully solve the problem with a parameter change.
OR
Buy new hardware for each application and reboot the OS daily.
Becoming a true Windows admin is not financially feasible in most environments.
Can they customize this alogrithm to load into my cell phone and tell me if the hot chick at the other table finds me desirable?
2. Never use the user's keyboard -- see #1 and multiply by 10.
3. The user's keyboard usually contains items which did not stay in the user's mouth. Bring your own keyboard.
4. If hygenic input devices are not available, create a reason to work on the tower in your space where hygenic input devices are available.
5. If the system cannot be removed, engage the user. Make the user root/administrator thru remote interfaces; then direct the user thru the steps to correct the problem.
6. If you must use the user's input devices, maintain a supply of surgical scrub solutions in your personal toolkit.
You actually let the Unisys^H^H^H^H^H^H Dell technician touch your system? I don't whether to call you brave or gullible.
Some laptops are easy to disassemble, some are hard. Call your laptop manufacturers tech support and ask them to walk you thru the procedure. I suggest you visit your local Fry's first and get a 7 piece set of jewelers/eyeglass/laptop repair screwdrivers with chip puller. (the chip puller is useful for removing those ingenious cable connecters which don't have pull straps -- specifically power connectors to the CPU fan.)
Unfortunately, basic businees skills are the most important training many a geek will ever receive; and far too often is the training they do not receive. In filling our last Linux admin position, I received a plethora of "skilled" resumes. One by one the propective employees were winnowed down because they lacked the following basic business skills:
cooperation: this skilled candidate systematically drove all other IT personnel out, tried to run IT for an entire school district single-handedly, and was forced to hire more personnel instead of working 80+ hour weeks.
communication: this skilled candidate was a walking treasure trove of useful information; but failed to answer the question he was asked every single time.
customer service: this technically apt candidate chose to engage in confrontational debate on the technical thoroughness and specificity of every question we asked.
And the winning candidate has specifically stated his personnel priority at this time is his employment; yet, cannot manage to arrive on time consistently, work a 40 hour week, or complete a task without calling, being called, or IMing his wife/brother/sister/random friend. This candidate specifically wanted the job so he could learn from us. He has been informed the most important lessons he will learn are not of the technical nature; but the business skills he lacks.
Sonny boy, I see you have never visited the great Republic of Texas.
Sex with a steak apparently?
And that, sonny boy, is what they call a hangin' offense
This will definitely get you a date with the VP of Marketing...whatever their gender may be.
If your gravy train is NOT applications for accounting, inventory control, transportation logistics, conference coordination, facilities maintenance, ad nauseum..... mabye . Software which effectively supports the basic funtions of business will always be proprietary. How many unemployed/underemployed/OSS coders will write software whose most visually appealing feature is a massive table of dreary data based on real facts?
If the author of this drivel had ever run a business, he never would have spent the resources to write this article.
Just a suggestion mind you....
If we make a negative assumption on origination and destination and start from Nunez Community College with a destination of downtown Lutcher, the distance is 52 miles. With motivation, this is not an unreasonable goal -- assuming the pedestrian is motivated to leave BEFORE the hurricane arrives. Since this is also a negative projection on starting point, many of these people would have had a shorter walk and could have walked to a safe destination.
Please don't misconstrue facts and lack of common sense, discipline, and motivation.
Please quote your source for these "facts". Also, a disciplined and motivated person can easily exceed the average for a short stretch of days. As I posted, most of these people lack the will, sense, and discipline to control their own destiny. This lack is often the precursor to "economic disadvantage" in the USA -- not fate. I only require the people given standard human equipment to use that equipment to help themselves; not whine out loud to any news camera that no one is helping them. [insert deity] helps those who help themselves.