If you want a little while longer, they'll lay you off and you can look for a job while you collect unemployment.
Companies that give employees huge workloads usually do it because they're losing money or poorly managed. (Un?)fortunately making the employees work more almost never fixes either condition, so they'll probably be gone soon.
One of my first jobs was in the back office processing center at a large bank. They would fire people who they even *thought* might be getting "disgruntled".
It was always pretty funny watching people come back from lunch and run their card through the reader. slide-beep-slide-beep-slide-beep.
Then the guard would ask to see your ID card, look under his desk, pull out the box containing your stuff, hand it to you, and wish you good luck on your future endevours.
Tell them that it has to be clean and simple enough that it can be fixed by someone who didn't write it, at 3am.
Then put them on call for a few months.
Make them justify every piece of technology, since each one is a potential failure and costs money to maintain.
Although I'm certain to get drawn and quartered for this, Java isn't the answer to every programming task in the world. If something takes 200 lines of code and a few days in one language, and 100 lines of code, 4 different server products and a dozen external libraries in another, chances re you're using the wrong language and platform.
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While it's great that it learns and makes decisions about the "spamminess" of various incoming items, the most reliable method I've found so far is Greylisting.
The moment I installed and started GLD (gasmi.net), the spam simply stopped. It was like flipping the "nospam" switch on. The spam just stopped. No false positives, no missed spam, nothing.
Every now and then I get unwanted email, but at least now it's from an actual, identifiable SMTP server, not a spam-bot.
It's an amazing improvement from implementing a really elegant concept.
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Systems this large typically don't need a general purpose database, they need custom software designed specifically for the required tasks.
This is another fallacy that's been foisted on the business community: that if you have data, you need a database.
I actually designed a system similar to the one you mentioned. The initial specs called for called for importing, merging sorting and outputting 50 - 75 Gb of data each day.
Even with a 16 processor boxe and a SAN, Oracle took 22 hours to process 24 hours worth of data.
I finally convinced the company that just because they had a hammer, the problem wasn't necessarily a nail, rewrote the required functionality in a C application with NO DATABASE, and the sort/merge/output ran in less than 2 hours on an old leftover dual 500 Mhz Sun box we had laying around.
No staff of DBAs, no huge Oracle licence fees.
Although they never shared the savings information with me, it had to be over a million $/year.
This is all facinating, but the reason PHBs buy Oracle is BECAUSE it's expensive, not in spite of it.
If you're a PHB and have a half million $ worth of Oracle products running on another half million dollars worth of managed server, tended to by 3 shifts of DBAs and *nix admins, you're IMPORTANT.
If you have a $500 DB running on $10,000 worth of low end servers, tended to by the company geek, you're expendable.
It doesn't matter at all whether one is more capable than the other.
Nothing prevents them from reading your mail except the fact they your mail is exceptionally boring and they really don't care about you.
In fact, they go to great lengths to avoid reading your mail because it's mixed in with a billion other emails that they also don't care about.
In any event, if you wouldn't want to find it on page 1 of the New York Times, it doesn't belong anywhere near a computer, since the chances are good that somewhere, sometime, someone (probably you) will hit the wrong button and and your "secret" will be secrt no more.
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If you want a little while longer, they'll lay you off and you can look for a job while you collect unemployment.
Companies that give employees huge workloads usually do it because they're losing money or poorly managed. (Un?)fortunately making the employees work more almost never fixes either condition, so they'll probably be gone soon.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well. Why would I need saving from your past?
One of my first jobs was in the back office processing center at a large bank. They would fire people who they even *thought* might be getting "disgruntled".
It was always pretty funny watching people come back from lunch and run their card through the reader. slide-beep-slide-beep-slide-beep.
Then the guard would ask to see your ID card, look under his desk, pull out the box containing your stuff, hand it to you, and wish you good luck on your future endevours.
Google actually penalizes sites that suddenly appear with lots of inbound links. Using a link in a signature is actually bad for page ranking.
You could if you used the FireFox NoScript plugin.
Javascript is off on all sites, unless you specifically allow it on a per-site basis.
Tell them that it has to be clean and simple enough that it can be fixed by someone who didn't write it, at 3am. Then put them on call for a few months. Make them justify every piece of technology, since each one is a potential failure and costs money to maintain. Although I'm certain to get drawn and quartered for this, Java isn't the answer to every programming task in the world. If something takes 200 lines of code and a few days in one language, and 100 lines of code, 4 different server products and a dozen external libraries in another, chances re you're using the wrong language and platform.
While it's great that it learns and makes decisions about the "spamminess" of various incoming items, the most reliable method I've found so far is Greylisting.
The moment I installed and started GLD (gasmi.net), the spam simply stopped. It was like flipping the "nospam" switch on. The spam just stopped. No false positives, no missed spam, nothing.
Every now and then I get unwanted email, but at least now it's from an actual, identifiable SMTP server, not a spam-bot.
It's an amazing improvement from implementing a really elegant concept.
Get SCUBA Diving Water conditions the coastal US waters at: bupkis.org
Nobody has ever developed an RFID chip that's mallet-resistant,
And if you have way too much time on your hands, you can swap them with your friends and neighbors for hours of fun and enjoyment.
Systems this large typically don't need a general purpose database, they need custom software designed specifically for the required tasks.
This is another fallacy that's been foisted on the business community: that if you have data, you need a database.
I actually designed a system similar to the one you mentioned. The initial specs called for called for importing, merging sorting and outputting 50 - 75 Gb of data each day.
Even with a 16 processor boxe and a SAN, Oracle took 22 hours to process 24 hours worth of data.
I finally convinced the company that just because they had a hammer, the problem wasn't necessarily a nail, rewrote the required functionality in a C application with NO DATABASE, and the sort/merge/output ran in less than 2 hours on an old leftover dual 500 Mhz Sun box we had laying around.
No staff of DBAs, no huge Oracle licence fees.
Although they never shared the savings information with me, it had to be over a million $/year.
This is all facinating, but the reason PHBs buy Oracle is BECAUSE it's expensive, not in spite of it. If you're a PHB and have a half million $ worth of Oracle products running on another half million dollars worth of managed server, tended to by 3 shifts of DBAs and *nix admins, you're IMPORTANT. If you have a $500 DB running on $10,000 worth of low end servers, tended to by the company geek, you're expendable. It doesn't matter at all whether one is more capable than the other.
Nothing prevents them from reading your mail except the fact they your mail is exceptionally boring and they really don't care about you. In fact, they go to great lengths to avoid reading your mail because it's mixed in with a billion other emails that they also don't care about. In any event, if you wouldn't want to find it on page 1 of the New York Times, it doesn't belong anywhere near a computer, since the chances are good that somewhere, sometime, someone (probably you) will hit the wrong button and and your "secret" will be secrt no more.