Given the current "brilliance" of a number of business moves I've read about in the last 24 hours *cough* true.com *cough* I'd say it's also possible that he honestly thinks that is what you are supposed to do with a gift horse. *sigh*
But just be careful where and how. Take a tip from salesmen (not marketing.... salesmen) Don't lower the price increase the value.
Some things that will help.
1. Increase HW replacement cycles. (which means you will need to actually maintain it, as in vacumming etc. 2. Re-cycle. Seriously start looking at that junk pile and see what is what. Yes the computer is bad. But the Case PSU Ram HDD Video Card etc might not be. 3. Challenge the entire staff's desire for the coolest. Do they really need a 500 dollar video card for reading e-mail and preping spread sheets. No they don't. 4. Inventory your software and it's usage. I'd be willing to bet that half of you staff could have their MS office license replaced by Open Office and they wouldn't know it happened.... Because they never use it. A suprisingly large amount of money is spent by companies on software out of knee jerk reaction. A Graphic artist need Photoshop... yes. The CTO doesn't. 5. Build your own boxes. Sorry but 9 out of 10 comps in your business could be built for 1/2 the cost if you spend a little bit of time thinking about it. (Like building without floppies or sound cards.... why would an office comp need a sound card. ) 6. If you don't want to build your own servers. Stop calling the big boys and start calling local whitebox vendors. That 3K big name box from them will be a lot less (like well under 2k I bet) and they are more likely to value your companies business than the big boys will. 7. Review your service contracts. Amazing how much money companies spend on contracts or warranties they don't even know they have.
Now comes the hard part. Put 1/2 your staff doing the opposite. Give the PHB's and the pencil pushers something they understand. $ signs. What does their IT dollar buy them? Most of the time they see IT as a money hole not a money maker because they don't understand it. Ask anyone working at Comair. Don't lower the river... raise the bridge. How much money does your IT department make your company a year? Yes make, despite what people have been telling you for years IT makes money. Extreme cases.... E-Bay. They will understand how spread sheet software saves/makes money. But how does having you there help them. Put down in hard numbers the cost of doing business without you. They need to see that not only are you willing work with them on belt tightening... but also the value of your service.
Finally, learn to push back. CEO found a really rad 1200 dollar plasma screen for his desktop. Push back. In fact tell him/her what buying that will cost him in other areas.
Whatever you do, don't accept a cut in pay or hours. You have value dad-gum it. Don't sell yourself short.
And if you had a whole brain... you'd just grab a mepis disk and be done with it. No need to compile or dd. *Evile grin intended to raise the ire of the PTB.*
Seriously though. I got enough of this in the early days. (as in pre-Yigdrasil) nope sorry. I'll bootstrap later. Right now. My favorite distribution is the one that my customer is paying me to like.
.... and all contracts or other business relations, past, present, or future, between Intel and SCO....
Notice the "future".... does this include the document that they are going to send through Intel in June of 2005 that will admit that the purpose of this entire project was to pump up the stock price and that Intel doesn't have to worry.
Or perhaps is SCO going to claim that since their code ran on Intel chips that means that the chips are tainted and therefore all of Intels IP belongs to SCO.
Good for you. In fact when I want work to be done... I boot XP, right out the door even. In my case where I work there are 2 very real choices. Linux and MAC. Why you may ask? I/O, the amount and speed with which I can (or rather the people who do the bit pushing.. I just put the networks together.) push bits runs substantially higher per box when XP is out of the way (or any other Win product)
So I still say. If! OS ABC is what you need to work go for it. But if you use ABC because you can't work on XYZ (lack of knowledge etc).. hey ABC isn't better, you my fiend are the problem.
Oh yes... and by the time you got your XP box booted. I was done. (open laptop, hit switch, type, close laptop. and this one is Linux)
Along the same lines I was talking one day with my wife about switching from windows to Linux.... While she was working on the computer. No problem. She didn't want to do it, and then forbid me from changing what she had. So Along those lines she is still running a heavily updated Mandrake 9.0....
Go figure.......
I also did this in an office I worked in. I copied the "splash screen" from windows ME to a number of Win98 and NT boxes. I then spent the following week listening to people complain about how they didn't like ME as well as what they had and wanted to switch back. So I changed the splash screens again.
Finally... when installing Open Office.org on a users box (especially if they are not a "power point ranger" type.). Never call it a "switch" Refer to it as upgrading their Office software. The reception of the new product will be much higher.
Unless of course they remove the battery short RJ5 and then replace the battery and boot from a bootable CD. But then again. If they have physical access.... just pull the hdd and put it in another box as a slave.
Note I too pwd the BIOS (laptop only) etc. But if I have access to the console. I own your data.
For one thing it works. For another we admit it. For a third we don't have to lie about it.
Oh yeah. I've never yet seen a local exploit on Windows. This is true. The number one exploit from Console on Windows is usually turning on the box. Once I do that I really don't care what you've done. I own you and I'm root (Yes even with WinXP SP2 and the supposed user password protection.)
Note too to be fair. ANY box where I am at the console I don't need fancy exploits and code to grab root etc. Once I've sat down in front of the keyboard.... it's mine. Period.
Ask all the people sitting in Airport terminals what they think of 16 bit systems. Most won't know what you are talking about.... true enough. But it was a 16 bit problem that caused comair to become comground. Now 32 bit systems were introduced over 10 years ago to the mainstream and have existed longer than that in other applications. What makes you think we will be rid of 16 bit let alone 32 bit by then? Heck I'm told that the most popular CPU chips in the world are actually 8 bit (as in all over your car) Granted your car couldn't care less what the date is but to say that 32 bit will be gone by 2038 is a bit of a pipe dream IMHO
At the 65K foot hieght they are talking about They are well above even the highest of storm clouds (50K feet is the top height I was able to find listed by the national weather service.) Also high enough to be above commercial and military flight paths. So weather is not a problem.
The other thought I've seen expressed concerns lag time With only 65K feet to transgress the lag shouldn't be any greater than wired communications in any single band. Point being that 13 miles isn't that great a distance for radio wave propogation ( 3,00000 km per second in vacuum ) So unlike SatCom where You have to calculate in Phase delay etc there is none of that affecting something at such a low height. Granted in it's initial phase it may not be the ideal gaming platform for some really lag sensitive games for most situations it won't be a concern.
What does have potential affects can be things like ground clutter (Extreme example turn on your microwave while using 802.11b in a small apartment.) Radio shadow. (tall buildings) etc. However these are things that affect a number of current radio communications systems and the 13M hieght will help. (Thats why the roof of the tallest building in a city is such valuable real estate)
The other neat thing is that you have a much lower horizon affect (the horizon is farther away from the top of a mountain than at sea level.) etc. I wouldn't expect it to be reliable for symetric communications links (The power down will be easier to create than the power up from a small device like a handheld. So give the db loss over the distance you won't find yourself serving a slashdotable server off of the connection. But for e-mail, blackberry, web surfing or sending off a modified spread sheet to the boss I would expect it would equal normal home DSL without a problem.
Strange too that no one ever talks about the lag in wired communications even though it is there. I remember as a child talking with my Aunt and Uncle living in Europe at the time on the phone. You really had a problem with knowing when the other person was speaking because of the lag.
And God I hate them. The cities that have properly timed lights and don't use these stupid sensors, have lower problems with speeding and "Orange Light" runners. Why? because if the lights are timed out to traffic flow staying at one constant speed guarantees you to always be green. In those areas that have the "smart" lights it's a constant traffic jam. Small side roads with a single car every minute, Short lights because backed up traffic is always over the jam detector (a loop device about 100 feet back from the light to signal backup.) Since in both directions there is always traffic over the top of them you get really short lights both ways and a blue ton of people pushing the light, drag racing to the next one to try and get 2 in a row etc. Then you add into the mix the "Left turn traffic" detectors.... ugh. Sometimes low tech is really higher quality and more intelligent.
No thanks. The problem here is that people drive on roads not on simulations. The benifit from these is not signifigant enough to justify the expense. In fact local studies I've seen done in California show that in most cases these lights actually increase polution not decrease it over the long haul.
apolgies but when I first read this, visions of a hopped up Hemi Charger doing burn outs came to mind. Then by the end I figured out you were on a bicycle.
Addware, spyware or worm in.... hmmmm geee 20 years or more?
Started out with Amiga, (On the old Fido Net and BBS's) moved breifly to a wang doing Dos Emulation. Then got my first PC and installed FreeBSD. Since them my desktop is Linux or one small box running Qnix. But otherwise. I'm wondering why every one talks about when Linux will be ready for the desktop. I've been running it as my desktop since 1997.
My theory on how to get people to stop using Windows. Simple Don't sell it to them pre-installed.
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Running a bit more than strings. IF the image on the german website is the same as the one that was on the SCO site. The image could have been created by The Gimp. However without the original I can't be sure.
A quick check if any of you have something like GQView etc installed look at the Exif (Extra Information) in the properites of the image. Adobe Signs itself as being the camera but the Gimp does not typically do this. The oddball on this is that the extension is jpeg not jpg. Typically is extension is only used on a windows box. So the one on the German site is looking "Gimped" but it is not a guarantee that it is the same image as was originally on the SCO site. The reason here is that it is signifigantly smaller. So it very well may have been resized etc in the Gimp or in Windows Image Viewer (it also wipes out camera information) So what is needed is a copy known to have come from the SCO site that has not yet been opened and altered (or saved with out altering) in the gimp.
No joke, Maybe he should sue is WebMaster on grounds of shear dumb4$$ as well. Funny but PlayBoy, VoyeurWeb and other majors don't have this problem. Then again they aren't running their site on a Pentium 90 either.
Basic Training (8 Weeks): Rolling in mud. Getting yelled at. Pushups. KP.
ummmm been there done that. Didn't spend much time rolling in the mud. Crawled in it to learn how not to die, walked through it ( a lot.)
The rest of this post shows that you spent very little time actually in a real job. If you were in the military you probably had one of the 4 week AIT's and didn't bother to try and manage your career.
For me it was.
1st duty station. 4 weeks additional tech training then 1 year of hands on repair and maintenance as a journyman. 2nd duty station Started in journyman position and quickly became a shift leader then a team leader. 3rd duty station In charge of over 14 million dollars of equipment and the people maintaining that equipment.
Stations beyond that got even more involved. Did I have butt hunters under me. Yes. Why, because they weren't competent enough to allow any where near the equipment. (after watching some jackape wth an O-Scope actually fry a 1500 dollar circuit board I learned to judge quickly. 8 out of 10 butt hunters do so for one reason only. They aren't capable of being trusted to do more.
If you were in the military. Seems to me you fell into the last category. Believe it or not I used to trade info with other NCO's on incoming personel. I knew the losers, winners, and the kids who really needed a leg up, long before I got them.
Go to http://linuxrebel.us I'll make Linux situp sing and dance if that's what I have to do for work. On my end of it. I'm caught in a squeeze H1B's or B+'s (been here for 3 years and got a green card) Single Living 5 or 6 to an apartment (They do quite often) can afford to take a job here in the valley for 10 an hour. With the median price of homes at 562K (California) and the true poverty level income being estimated at 50k for a family of 3, I can't live at 10 an hour.
Around here they want a Masters, 7 or 8 programming languages, half a dozen certs and you living within 5 minutes of the place for the lowest level Sys-Admin position. Then you go to Fry's or some other Dept store for a "Dang I gotta have something" job and they won't let you in because they know you will leave as soon as a real job comes along.
All I can say is. If you have a job and you want it done and done right. Call me. BTW I can't joing the Military... been there done that. That's how I got my start. (One year 8 hours a day nothing but electronics. woo hoo!)
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Given the current "brilliance" of a number of business moves I've read about in the last 24 hours *cough* true.com *cough* I'd say it's also possible that he honestly thinks that is what you are supposed to do with a gift horse. *sigh*
Hey! I work for Clear Channel now. We don't need no stinking FCC!
But just be careful where and how. Take a tip from salesmen (not marketing .... salesmen) Don't lower the price increase the value.
.... Because they never use it. A suprisingly large amount of money is spent by companies on software out of knee jerk reaction. A Graphic artist need Photoshop ... yes. The CTO doesn't.
... raise the bridge. How much money does your IT department make your company a year? Yes make, despite what people have been telling you for years IT makes money. Extreme cases .... E-Bay. They will understand how spread sheet software saves/makes money. But how does having you there help them. Put down in hard numbers the cost of doing business without you. They need to see that not only are you willing work with them on belt tightening ... but also the value of your service.
Some things that will help.
1. Increase HW replacement cycles. (which means you will need to actually maintain it, as in vacumming etc.
2. Re-cycle. Seriously start looking at that junk pile and see what is what. Yes the computer is bad. But the Case PSU Ram HDD Video Card etc might not be.
3. Challenge the entire staff's desire for the coolest. Do they really need a 500 dollar video card for reading e-mail and preping spread sheets. No they don't.
4. Inventory your software and it's usage. I'd be willing to bet that half of you staff could have their MS office license replaced by Open Office and they wouldn't know it happened
5. Build your own boxes. Sorry but 9 out of 10 comps in your business could be built for 1/2 the cost if you spend a little bit of time thinking about it. (Like building without floppies or sound cards.... why would an office comp need a sound card. )
6. If you don't want to build your own servers. Stop calling the big boys and start calling local whitebox vendors. That 3K big name box from them will be a lot less (like well under 2k I bet) and they are more likely to value your companies business than the big boys will.
7. Review your service contracts. Amazing how much money companies spend on contracts or warranties they don't even know they have.
Now comes the hard part. Put 1/2 your staff doing the opposite. Give the PHB's and the pencil pushers something they understand. $ signs. What does their IT dollar buy them? Most of the time they see IT as a money hole not a money maker because they don't understand it. Ask anyone working at Comair. Don't lower the river
Finally, learn to push back. CEO found a really rad 1200 dollar plasma screen for his desktop. Push back. In fact tell him/her what buying that will cost him in other areas.
Whatever you do, don't accept a cut in pay or hours. You have value dad-gum it. Don't sell yourself short.
Super Glue all of his furniture etc to the ceiling....
And if you had a whole brain ... you'd just grab a mepis disk and be done with it. No need to compile or dd. *Evile grin intended to raise the ire of the PTB.*
Seriously though. I got enough of this in the early days. (as in pre-Yigdrasil) nope sorry. I'll bootstrap later. Right now. My favorite distribution is the one that my customer is paying me to like.
.... and all contracts or other business relations, past, present, or future, between Intel and SCO....
.... does this include the document that they are going to send through Intel in June of 2005 that will admit that the purpose of this entire project was to pump up the stock price and that Intel doesn't have to worry.
Notice the "future"
Or perhaps is SCO going to claim that since their code ran on Intel chips that means that the chips are tainted and therefore all of Intels IP belongs to SCO.
Oh my god... I just had a wonderful thought. Buy one of these for Gee DubYa (In case you wonder why) ..... *Evil Grin*
When I want to get WORK done, I boot XP.
... I boot XP, right out the door even. In my case where I work there are 2 very real choices. Linux and MAC. Why you may ask? I/O, the amount and speed with which I can (or rather the people who do the bit pushing .. I just put the networks together.) push bits runs substantially higher per box when XP is out of the way (or any other Win product) .. hey ABC isn't better, you my fiend are the problem.
Good for you. In fact when I want work to be done
So I still say. If! OS ABC is what you need to work go for it. But if you use ABC because you can't work on XYZ (lack of knowledge etc)
Oh yes... and by the time you got your XP box booted. I was done. (open laptop, hit switch, type, close laptop. and this one is Linux)
Along the same lines I was talking one day with my wife about switching from windows to Linux .... While she was working on the computer. No problem. She didn't want to do it, and then forbid me from changing what she had. So Along those lines she is still running a heavily updated Mandrake 9.0 ....
... when installing Open Office.org on a users box (especially if they are not a "power point ranger" type.). Never call it a "switch" Refer to it as upgrading their Office software. The reception of the new product will be much higher.
Go figure.......
I also did this in an office I worked in. I copied the "splash screen" from windows ME to a number of Win98 and NT boxes. I then spent the following week listening to people complain about how they didn't like ME as well as what they had and wanted to switch back. So I changed the splash screens again.
Finally
Unless of course they remove the battery short RJ5 and then replace the battery and boot from a bootable CD. But then again. If they have physical access .... just pull the hdd and put it in another box as a slave.
Note I too pwd the BIOS (laptop only) etc. But if I have access to the console. I own your data.
Heck... it worked for Gates Y not you?
How about this for facts ... I'm the one who submitted the original *grin*...
For one thing it works. For another we admit it. For a third we don't have to lie about it.
.... it's mine. Period.
Oh yeah. I've never yet seen a local exploit on Windows. This is true. The number one exploit from Console on Windows is usually turning on the box. Once I do that I really don't care what you've done. I own you and I'm root (Yes even with WinXP SP2 and the supposed user password protection.)
Note too to be fair. ANY box where I am at the console I don't need fancy exploits and code to grab root etc. Once I've sat down in front of the keyboard
Ask all the people sitting in Airport terminals what they think of 16 bit systems. Most won't know what you are talking about.... true enough. But it was a 16 bit problem that caused comair to become comground. Now 32 bit systems were introduced over 10 years ago to the mainstream and have existed longer than that in other applications. What makes you think we will be rid of 16 bit let alone 32 bit by then? Heck I'm told that the most popular CPU chips in the world are actually 8 bit (as in all over your car) Granted your car couldn't care less what the date is but to say that 32 bit will be gone by 2038 is a bit of a pipe dream IMHO
At the 65K foot hieght they are talking about They are well above even the highest of storm clouds (50K feet is the top height I was able to find listed by the national weather service.) Also high enough to be above commercial and military flight paths. So weather is not a problem.
_ cedar_sporadic_e.pdf
s sue1/seumahu/seumahu.html
The other thought I've seen expressed concerns lag time With only 65K feet to transgress the lag shouldn't be any greater than wired communications in any single band. Point being that 13 miles isn't that great a distance for radio wave propogation ( 3,00000 km per second in vacuum ) So unlike SatCom where You have to calculate in Phase delay etc there is none of that affecting something at such a low height. Granted in it's initial phase it may not be the ideal gaming platform for some really lag sensitive games for most situations it won't be a concern.
What does have potential affects can be things like ground clutter (Extreme example turn on your microwave while using 802.11b in a small apartment.) Radio shadow. (tall buildings) etc. However these are things that affect a number of current radio communications systems and the 13M hieght will help. (Thats why the roof of the tallest building in a city is such valuable real estate)
The other neat thing is that you have a much lower horizon affect (the horizon is farther away from the top of a mountain than at sea level.) etc. I wouldn't expect it to be reliable for symetric communications links (The power down will be easier to create than the power up from a small device like a handheld. So give the db loss over the distance you won't find yourself serving a slashdotable server off of the connection. But for e-mail, blackberry, web surfing or sending off a modified spread sheet to the boss I would expect it would equal normal home DSL without a problem.
Strange too that no one ever talks about the lag in wired communications even though it is there. I remember as a child talking with my Aunt and Uncle living in Europe at the time on the phone. You really had a problem with knowing when the other person was speaking because of the lag.
Some useful links
http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/related_papers/2002_wu
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/CSER/UOSAT/IJSSE/i
URL:http://www.vigyanprasar.com/ham/IONOS.htm
And God I hate them. The cities that have properly timed lights and don't use these stupid sensors, have lower problems with speeding and "Orange Light" runners. Why? because if the lights are timed out to traffic flow staying at one constant speed guarantees you to always be green. In those areas that have the "smart" lights it's a constant traffic jam. Small side roads with a single car every minute, Short lights because backed up traffic is always over the jam detector (a loop device about 100 feet back from the light to signal backup.) Since in both directions there is always traffic over the top of them you get really short lights both ways and a blue ton of people pushing the light, drag racing to the next one to try and get 2 in a row etc. Then you add into the mix the "Left turn traffic" detectors .... ugh. Sometimes low tech is really higher quality and more intelligent.
No thanks. The problem here is that people drive on roads not on simulations. The benifit from these is not signifigant enough to justify the expense. In fact local studies I've seen done in California show that in most cases these lights actually increase polution not decrease it over the long haul.
apolgies but when I first read this, visions of a hopped up Hemi Charger doing burn outs came to mind. Then by the end I figured out you were on a bicycle.
Addware, spyware or worm in .... hmmmm geee 20 years or more?
Started out with Amiga, (On the old Fido Net and BBS's) moved breifly to a wang doing Dos Emulation. Then got my first PC and installed FreeBSD. Since them my desktop is Linux or one small box running Qnix. But otherwise. I'm wondering why every one talks about when Linux will be ready for the desktop. I've been running it as my desktop since 1997.
My theory on how to get people to stop using Windows. Simple Don't sell it to them pre-installed.
Running a bit more than strings. IF the image on the german website is the same as the one that was on the SCO site. The image could have been created by The Gimp. However without the original I can't be sure.
A quick check if any of you have something like GQView etc installed look at the Exif (Extra Information) in the properites of the image. Adobe Signs itself as being the camera but the Gimp does not typically do this. The oddball on this is that the extension is jpeg not jpg. Typically is extension is only used on a windows box. So the one on the German site is looking "Gimped" but it is not a guarantee that it is the same image as was originally on the SCO site. The reason here is that it is signifigantly smaller. So it very well may have been resized etc in the Gimp or in Windows Image Viewer (it also wipes out camera information) So what is needed is a copy known to have come from the SCO site that has not yet been opened and altered (or saved with out altering) in the gimp.
One Site that could help alot.
Linux-wireless.com More info here than you probably want, and everything you need.
No joke, Maybe he should sue is WebMaster on grounds of shear dumb4$$ as well. Funny but PlayBoy, VoyeurWeb and other majors don't have this problem. Then again they aren't running their site on a Pentium 90 either.
In a word ... I'm not so sure either. God help us, god help my son.
Obviously you weren't in.
ummmm been there done that. Didn't spend much time rolling in the mud. Crawled in it to learn how not to die, walked through it ( a lot.)
The rest of this post shows that you spent very little time actually in a real job. If you were in the military you probably had one of the 4 week AIT's and didn't bother to try and manage your career.
For me it was.
1st duty station. 4 weeks additional tech training then 1 year of hands on repair and maintenance as a journyman.
2nd duty station Started in journyman position and quickly became a shift leader then a team leader.
3rd duty station
In charge of over 14 million dollars of equipment and the people maintaining that equipment.
Stations beyond that got even more involved. Did I have butt hunters under me. Yes. Why, because they weren't competent enough to allow any where near the equipment. (after watching some jackape wth an O-Scope actually fry a 1500 dollar circuit board I learned to judge quickly. 8 out of 10 butt hunters do so for one reason only. They aren't capable of being trusted to do more.
If you were in the military. Seems to me you fell into the last category. Believe it or not I used to trade info with other NCO's on incoming personel. I knew the losers, winners, and the kids who really needed a leg up, long before I got them.
Go to http://linuxrebel.us I'll make Linux situp sing and dance if that's what I have to do for work. On my end of it. I'm caught in a squeeze H1B's or B+'s (been here for 3 years and got a green card) Single Living 5 or 6 to an apartment (They do quite often) can afford to take a job here in the valley for 10 an hour. With the median price of homes at 562K (California) and the true poverty level income being estimated at 50k for a family of 3, I can't live at 10 an hour.
... been there done that. That's how I got my start. (One year 8 hours a day nothing but electronics. woo hoo!)
Around here they want a Masters, 7 or 8 programming languages, half a dozen certs and you living within 5 minutes of the place for the lowest level Sys-Admin position. Then you go to Fry's or some other Dept store for a "Dang I gotta have something" job and they won't let you in because they know you will leave as soon as a real job comes along.
All I can say is. If you have a job and you want it done and done right. Call me. BTW I can't joing the Military