From your bank statement can be gleaned your name, address, account number, bank name, and recent check #s... from there, all it takes is a routing # and that's enough information to print a check. I've had creditors and whatnot run checks on their own stock before, and no bank I've ever used has ever complained, so it's not much of a stretch for a thief to cook up a good sounding name for the payable-to field that he could deposit. Not that I imagine your bank (or mine) reads all those payable-to fields, anyway.
That's my problem... my fortes are technical areas, not marketing, sales, and office politics. Absolutely nothing against those disciplines--I just recognize that I suck at them, and therefore, am inclined to similar under-compensation.
The only way around this is to build a reputation so that people can have a preconceived notion of your abilities even before they meet your for the first time. A good reputation is many times better than a good Image. However, a good reputation is many times harder to create than a good Image.
Good point... usually, I end up with tasks that sound like "hey, when you get a minute, I've got this Red Sea here that needs parting before the CoB". So I've been "lucky", in the sense that when people's toes are on fire, they aren't as focused on the way they USED to have the fire put out, as they are how fast I can do it this time.
And you know, to further complicate things, sometime the status quo is the right solution, and the shiny new features (with small, breakable parts not suitable for toddlers or the sales department) just aren't necessary. Being asked to implement obviously broken software, or decent software in an obviously broken way, is one of the most frustrating parts of working in IT.
I try to practice and preach technology agnosticism: define the problem, and then make an educated decision as to the tool to solve it. There are good reasons that the place I work has a harmonious hodgepodge of commercial and open source software running on a variety of platforms.
...because I'd wager that in most cases, people choosing to deploy open source solutions are driven, and do not accept failure. There have been plenty of times where I could have allowed an open source solution to fail, but persevered and eventually made it work the way I wanted. So while I've had plenty of setbacks, I've had precious few actual failures, if any.
I honestly had to pause the last episode until I stopped laughing... the sad thing is I was telling a [fellow geeky] friend the next day about it, and he asks, "what's a Trogdor the Burninator?" I think he works too much.
WHOA! I was just Googling, and had no idea there was a TROGDOR GAME.
BTVS is in the process of coming out of DVD, and it's some of the cheapest TV releases I've ever seen... Amazon has the entire first season for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. Alternately, you can rent them from Netflix, and probably your decent local independent-type video store, too.
That's exactly how I did... aside from being easier in my brain, I think it's easier for the customer to follow if you count it out loud, and results in fewer "you short-changed me" discussions.
From the article, it doesn't seem like Apple actually asked Hubbard to do anything, nor does it seem like he's saying it "must be changed"... he's just proactively trying to solve a problem before it forks into a silly headache. No need to inflate the drama of the situation any more than it's already going to be.
Living under the approach to LAX and only about 1/4 mile off the end of the runway, I'm gonna float my stick with the FAA/FCC/TPTB on this one. With my luck, the incident that conclusively proves cell phones interfere will end with me having a flight crew and their 200 closest friends expectedly in my bathroom.
(At the right time in the wee morning hours, aircraft approaching 24R blot out the sun in my bathroom... the only place to sit is immediately under and facing away from the window, so it's pretty spooky when you're doing that thing you do in the morning and it suddenly gets cold and dark.)
Honestly, the world will not stop if you're out of contact for a few hours. Get to the airport early, use your time at the gate to get your last minute affairs in order, and then UNPLUG on the plane. Read a book, the newspaper, or if you just can't stand it, some relevant work document. Or RELAX. If you're so busy you think you need to be on the phone in a plane, you probably need a three-hour break anyway.
yeah, it works great, too. I had an office of 20 people reading email via OWA over a single modem while our broadband was being installed, and I made a local mirror of all of OWA's graphics and icons and wrote a trivial redirector to use them... made a huge difference in perceived performance.
yeah, I have a beefy squid box and cranked that up to 64 MB right at the beginning to catch as much media and other bulky material as I could. the quick_abort_* options are your friend, too. cache hit rate (objects, not bytes) is running at 71% at the moment... no complaints there.
It cached SP3 when we installed it--that must have contained some security roll-ups. I wonder what the rhyme is to what sticks in the cache and what doesn't...
I can only speak from what I've seen in our offices, but squid (running in transparent proxy mode) very definitely caches content from Windows Update... I set it up about six month ago and remeber being really surprised (because I think I very reasonably expected it not to).
This may not be feasible, it depends on the number of people in your organization... but at a previous job, our operations and applications teams (not quite ten people) moved into a new cube space. We spent a reasonable amount of time haggling around a whiteboard and came up with the plan we all liked, including a high-walled conference room, a couple of "bays" for two people, and some extra cubes for project work and new faces. I want to believe, at least, that getting the people affected involved in the decisions is always the best route.
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From your bank statement can be gleaned your name, address, account number, bank name, and recent check #s... from there, all it takes is a routing # and that's enough information to print a check. I've had creditors and whatnot run checks on their own stock before, and no bank I've ever used has ever complained, so it's not much of a stretch for a thief to cook up a good sounding name for the payable-to field that he could deposit. Not that I imagine your bank (or mine) reads all those payable-to fields, anyway.
That's my problem... my fortes are technical areas, not marketing, sales, and office politics. Absolutely nothing against those disciplines--I just recognize that I suck at them, and therefore, am inclined to similar under-compensation.
not just covad, they deal with worldcom too. I've had them in NC and two different places in LA... you can pry my speakeasy from my cold dead hands.
The only way around this is to build a reputation so that people can have a preconceived notion of your abilities even before they meet your for the first time. A good reputation is many times better than a good Image. However, a good reputation is many times harder to create than a good Image.
Very, very well said.
oh, no hating... that was a good one. next time, though, don't explain it. you just have to let the uninitiated flounder.
sorry! you're technically correct of course, I was just reading with my /. goggles on...
It's been six months! The only people who don't have 2.4.20 sources are people who don't compile kernels...
...or have uptimes >= 6 months.
Good point... usually, I end up with tasks that sound like "hey, when you get a minute, I've got this Red Sea here that needs parting before the CoB". So I've been "lucky", in the sense that when people's toes are on fire, they aren't as focused on the way they USED to have the fire put out, as they are how fast I can do it this time.
And you know, to further complicate things, sometime the status quo is the right solution, and the shiny new features (with small, breakable parts not suitable for toddlers or the sales department) just aren't necessary. Being asked to implement obviously broken software, or decent software in an obviously broken way, is one of the most frustrating parts of working in IT.
I try to practice and preach technology agnosticism: define the problem, and then make an educated decision as to the tool to solve it. There are good reasons that the place I work has a harmonious hodgepodge of commercial and open source software running on a variety of platforms.
...because I'd wager that in most cases, people choosing to deploy open source solutions are driven, and do not accept failure. There have been plenty of times where I could have allowed an open source solution to fail, but persevered and eventually made it work the way I wanted. So while I've had plenty of setbacks, I've had precious few actual failures, if any.
yeah, that was classic, thanks.
for the love of $DEITY, someone mod the parent up.
Hence it's twenty-dollar-cheaper list price, vs. seasons two, three, and four.
I honestly had to pause the last episode until I stopped laughing... the sad thing is I was telling a [fellow geeky] friend the next day about it, and he asks, "what's a Trogdor the Burninator?" I think he works too much.
WHOA! I was just Googling, and had no idea there was a TROGDOR GAME.
BTVS is in the process of coming out of DVD, and it's some of the cheapest TV releases I've ever seen... Amazon has the entire first season for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. Alternately, you can rent them from Netflix, and probably your decent local independent-type video store, too.
That's exactly how I did... aside from being easier in my brain, I think it's easier for the customer to follow if you count it out loud, and results in fewer "you short-changed me" discussions.
From the article, it doesn't seem like Apple actually asked Hubbard to do anything, nor does it seem like he's saying it "must be changed"... he's just proactively trying to solve a problem before it forks into a silly headache. No need to inflate the drama of the situation any more than it's already going to be.
In one of the key scenes, Neo battles it out with first just one Smith, then eight, then 24 and finally 100.
1, 8, 24, 100? That's not a very apropos way for a computer-generated anything to replicate.
Yes, please shoot me already.
unexpectedly. before anyone gets any ideas about my bathroom habits. I'm not that weird.
damn, I spell-checked that and everything.
Living under the approach to LAX and only about 1/4 mile off the end of the runway, I'm gonna float my stick with the FAA/FCC/TPTB on this one. With my luck, the incident that conclusively proves cell phones interfere will end with me having a flight crew and their 200 closest friends expectedly in my bathroom.
(At the right time in the wee morning hours, aircraft approaching 24R blot out the sun in my bathroom... the only place to sit is immediately under and facing away from the window, so it's pretty spooky when you're doing that thing you do in the morning and it suddenly gets cold and dark.)
Honestly, the world will not stop if you're out of contact for a few hours. Get to the airport early, use your time at the gate to get your last minute affairs in order, and then UNPLUG on the plane. Read a book, the newspaper, or if you just can't stand it, some relevant work document. Or RELAX. If you're so busy you think you need to be on the phone in a plane, you probably need a three-hour break anyway.
You've piqued my curiosity... what kind of cell phone do you have that doesn't have an off switch?
yeah, it works great, too. I had an office of 20 people reading email via OWA over a single modem while our broadband was being installed, and I made a local mirror of all of OWA's graphics and icons and wrote a trivial redirector to use them... made a huge difference in perceived performance.
yeah, I have a beefy squid box and cranked that up to 64 MB right at the beginning to catch as much media and other bulky material as I could. the quick_abort_* options are your friend, too. cache hit rate (objects, not bytes) is running at 71% at the moment... no complaints there.
It cached SP3 when we installed it--that must have contained some security roll-ups. I wonder what the rhyme is to what sticks in the cache and what doesn't...
I can only speak from what I've seen in our offices, but squid (running in transparent proxy mode) very definitely caches content from Windows Update... I set it up about six month ago and remeber being really surprised (because I think I very reasonably expected it not to).
This may not be feasible, it depends on the number of people in your organization... but at a previous job, our operations and applications teams (not quite ten people) moved into a new cube space. We spent a reasonable amount of time haggling around a whiteboard and came up with the plan we all liked, including a high-walled conference room, a couple of "bays" for two people, and some extra cubes for project work and new faces. I want to believe, at least, that getting the people affected involved in the decisions is always the best route.