You are assuming to much here, you know what happens when you assume -- you make a$$ out of you and me. The server that was offline was not mission critical, if so it would have never happened. All production work continued as usual. After several months, actually, almost a year of trying to help someone who was getting all of the credit for others and mine work and none was given to persons that was really doing the work... one has to take action to show the boss or owners what is actually going on. There are just some people who will not take help, no matter what you do, this was one of them, he was one who thought he knew it all -- this type of person will not take the time to learn from other nor their own mistakes.
You also assume they were honest mistakes, I assure you that they weren't. Several of them he had been told over and over that they weren't right. Just how many times does someone have to make the same mistakes before you let them go? In the schools it use to be 3 strikes and you were out. They have changed that to "no tolerance" which means if you do something wrong the first time you are out. You cannot continually go behind someone corrected the same mistakes over and over even after you tell the person that it is wrong.
As far is the other 2 persons were concerned: one of them was a programmer, non-administrative type; And, one was my backup before we hired an "CNE" but was also the primary one to take care of desktop and end user issues -- he was performing this task as we were suppose to have a "certified" Novell Engineer on site to handle these type of issues.
And, further more no one said that the network was down -- only one server not the entire network once again you are assuming incorrectly.
In a previous position, I worked directly under the Vice President of Technolegy, without certs of any kind, who believed the same way -- certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. He went on to say that if he had to take the Microsoft tests he would probably fail them because he knew too much as there is the way that works and the Microsoft way which isn't mutually inclusive. In this position, I did some things with Windows NT that Microsoft said that there wasn't a way to do what we wanted.
I still say that certs aren't worth the paper that they are written on. Certs are a "box" and most people who have certs cannot work outside of that "box". People who have the experience without the certs know how to think outside of that "box"
There will always be pirates in the computer world. They have been around since the invention of the computer.
The RIAA is all about making money for themselves as very little of the money actually goes to the group -- this in itself is why concerts cost an arm and leg. The artist want to make money but get nothing from the RIAA.
Most of the music I listen to is very hard to find in the US as it isn't commercial enough for the radio. I have to either go to music importers or buy it directly from the source. If I lived in the Netherlands, I could listen to it over the radio.
I see that DRM is just a waste of time and money without any point at all. The RIAA has tried to block every technological advance in the public/home recording industry because the RIAA says that it will reduce sales. Just something that will cost the end user more money.
Certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. A few years back I was working in a Novell 3.11 and 3.12 IT department. There was 3 of us and none of us had a CNE so the owner of the business decided that it was time to hire a CNE instead of sending one of us to "school" for CNE. One was hired. And, I kept going behind him and correcting errors. I got tired of this so one day I saw a major mistake in the config file. So I decided that I would take a long weekend -- the company owed me several weeks of comp-time -- and left my pager on my desk and left town. I was back in 4 days and the server was down for 3 of the 4 days. I knew what the issue was but took about 20 minutes (I could have fixed in about 5 but I didn't want anybody to know that I knew that there was an issue with the server before I left town.) The owner determined that having a CNE wasn't such a good idea after. All a cert means is someone took the time to spend allot of money on classes without any real world experience. No piece paper can replace actual hands on experience or OJT. There are book smarts and then there are those who have the natural ability to make the computer do what we want it to do. If I was hiring an IT professional, I would take someone with 20 years of experience without certs before I would take some with less then a year of experience with all of the certs.
Even with DRM, you can still record to MP3 -- just a little bit slower. There is a program called Total Recorder that will record anything that is played thru your sound card.
Way back when the powers that be in the recording industry tried to put copy protection on VHS tapes. I was able to make copies of the so call "copy protected tapes." What copy protection is to me is just a minor annoyance and nothing more.
Even with this so called "copy protected" CD's, you can still copy them with a program called "Total Recorder" which will record anything played thru your sound card. The URL is http://www.highcriteria.com.
If that doesn't work you can use your stereo CD player with patch cords to the AUX input to your sound card and then use the above program to record it.
Where there is a will there is a way.
George
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You are assuming to much here, you know what happens when you assume -- you make a$$ out of you and me. The server that was offline was not mission critical, if so it would have never happened. All production work continued as usual. After several months, actually, almost a year of trying to help someone who was getting all of the credit for others and mine work and none was given to persons that was really doing the work... one has to take action to show the boss or owners what is actually going on. There are just some people who will not take help, no matter what you do, this was one of them, he was one who thought he knew it all -- this type of person will not take the time to learn from other nor their own mistakes.
You also assume they were honest mistakes, I assure you that they weren't. Several of them he had been told over and over that they weren't right. Just how many times does someone have to make the same mistakes before you let them go? In the schools it use to be 3 strikes and you were out. They have changed that to "no tolerance" which means if you do something wrong the first time you are out. You cannot continually go behind someone corrected the same mistakes over and over even after you tell the person that it is wrong.
As far is the other 2 persons were concerned: one of them was a programmer, non-administrative type; And, one was my backup before we hired an "CNE" but was also the primary one to take care of desktop and end user issues -- he was performing this task as we were suppose to have a "certified" Novell Engineer on site to handle these type of issues.
And, further more no one said that the network was down -- only one server not the entire network once again you are assuming incorrectly.
In a previous position, I worked directly under the Vice President of Technolegy, without certs of any kind, who believed the same way -- certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. He went on to say that if he had to take the Microsoft tests he would probably fail them because he knew too much as there is the way that works and the Microsoft way which isn't mutually inclusive. In this position, I did some things with Windows NT that Microsoft said that there wasn't a way to do what we wanted.
I still say that certs aren't worth the paper that they are written on. Certs are a "box" and most people who have certs cannot work outside of that "box". People who have the experience without the certs know how to think outside of that "box"
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I guess there response to the DRM's on the CD is overwhelm the registration database.
There will always be pirates in the computer world. They have been around since the invention of the computer.
The RIAA is all about making money for themselves as very little of the money actually goes to the group -- this in itself is why concerts cost an arm and leg. The artist want to make money but get nothing from the RIAA.
Most of the music I listen to is very hard to find in the US as it isn't commercial enough for the radio. I have to either go to music importers or buy it directly from the source. If I lived in the Netherlands, I could listen to it over the radio.
I see that DRM is just a waste of time and money without any point at all. The RIAA has tried to block every technological advance in the public/home recording industry because the RIAA says that it will reduce sales. Just something that will cost the end user more money.
Certs aren't worth the paper they are printed on. A few years back I was working in a Novell 3.11 and 3.12 IT department. There was 3 of us and none of us had a CNE so the owner of the business decided that it was time to hire a CNE instead of sending one of us to "school" for CNE. One was hired. And, I kept going behind him and correcting errors. I got tired of this so one day I saw a major mistake in the config file. So I decided that I would take a long weekend -- the company owed me several weeks of comp-time -- and left my pager on my desk and left town. I was back in 4 days and the server was down for 3 of the 4 days. I knew what the issue was but took about 20 minutes (I could have fixed in about 5 but I didn't want anybody to know that I knew that there was an issue with the server before I left town.) The owner determined that having a CNE wasn't such a good idea after. All a cert means is someone took the time to spend allot of money on classes without any real world experience. No piece paper can replace actual hands on experience or OJT. There are book smarts and then there are those who have the natural ability to make the computer do what we want it to do. If I was hiring an IT professional, I would take someone with 20 years of experience without certs before I would take some with less then a year of experience with all of the certs.
Even with DRM, you can still record to MP3 -- just a little bit slower. There is a program called Total Recorder that will record anything that is played thru your sound card.
Way back when the powers that be in the recording industry tried to put copy protection on VHS tapes. I was able to make copies of the so call "copy protected tapes." What copy protection is to me is just a minor annoyance and nothing more. Even with this so called "copy protected" CD's, you can still copy them with a program called "Total Recorder" which will record anything played thru your sound card. The URL is http://www.highcriteria.com. If that doesn't work you can use your stereo CD player with patch cords to the AUX input to your sound card and then use the above program to record it. Where there is a will there is a way. George