As a desirable sys admin I went with a headhunter. She filters out businesses and matches them to employees. I tend to be a people centered admin so I like smaller businesses, so she calls me when a really nice job comes up and sells me on it. A larger corporate job may go to someone else as sitting in a server room all day isn't my cup o tea.
My suggestion would be to use a headhunter, sure they are expensive but you get matched up with quality people that match your business philosophy. Also to you job seekers out there I would suggest finding and hitting up Head Hunters. I have had extrordinary success with em on both sides of the table.
look up the terms "The Peter Principle" and "The Dilbert Principle" for insight on why this is the case in IT departments.
As I rant about often on/. the problem happened when there used to be a huge shortage of IT pros so you hired keyboard monkeys who could turn a screw or two. In some cases you got very progressive and intelligent IT people, in others...well you got the other paycheck hunters. So you promote them so they cause the least damage and because that is what companies do with people with tenure. then you hire real pros to take their place that end up hating their boss because the "Boss" really doesn't know what they are doing, therefore make up for it by bullying.
P.S. I enjoy consulting a great deal as well, peter and dilbert principles are nonexistant in this field as there is no one to carry those kind of people.
I could be wrong but I sued to bea ble to download all the patches to a given MS product in a redistributable form. It was a pain the first time around but after that I created my own Disk with a script that updated XP with all the patches. Now I havent had cause do do this in a little over a year or two since I don't work with remote sites anymore. But I would assume you can still do it. I do remember it being difficult to get to the section on MS's site where you could get all the patches in an offline format.
Exactly, People need to realize that once data hits a public facing server unsecured you can say goodby to any privacy. From that point on you will be archived, scraped, spidered, copied, pasted, jacked off to, daydreamed about, blogged, included in research, and a million other things you never intended to happen. Tell ya what consider anything you put on a server where the public has access Lost to the massive copying machine that is the web.
But that is the way it should be, The internet was made to be resilliant, and it does a damn good job of it. So before you start suing companies and yelling at people about not being able to erase your data, maybe you should have a good solid hand-to-forhead moment an realize you are a dumbass.
Maybe actors and singers should take note of that. And PHDs, Pastors, MDs or anyone else highly educated speaking of fields like an expert where they aren't.
"Intel was willing to engineer a new version of the Core 2 Duo specifically to Apple's specifications -- it's 60 percent smaller than others" Ya, that doesn't sound custom at all. And yes it probably could be used for other things as long as Intel didn't sign some kind of agreement with apple NOT to use the chip in a competing device...cause apple would never do something like that.
The vista problems don't warrant a rebuild for me... yet. My main issues are the bluetooth not working on wakeup and some multiple monitor problems that I solved with UltraMon.
LOL I lived in the country....took me a long time to figure out that my lines were the problem. However it was soooooo cool the first time I connected to a friend's PC and we could type back and forth to each other.
The cost of electronics doesn't go up, Did you not see the custom Dual Core built for it? Or the thin hard drive....ya I bet those cost just as much as all the other processors and hard drives of the same spec to manufacture.
I agree here, I love love love the XPS 1330 series with the LED display. I will pay $2500 for one of those any day of the week. I bought 3 just last year for co-workers the only complaints I have had so far are Vista issues.
OK first, it is not intended as a ultra adaptable Laptop, you want lots of functionality, get a macbook pro. If you want something sleek that you can hit wifi hotspots and update your blog...this puppy was designed for you.
You might as well complain about the tiny hard drive and lack of optical audio and no DVI output. Oh well, some people just don't get it.
ya what kills me is, what year was that? I did the same and it was only recently that kids started talking about how cool xbox live was...
Not to be a "get off my lawn" guy, but it did offer a bit more to the game when you were setting up your init strings and loading ipx drivers, so that when you did actually get doom up and a going you really got the wow factor. Now you just plug your xbox into the LAN and off you go.
ahhhh commander keen....that was also when I first discovered sound cards. Played that game forever until we got a PC with a card in it and I was tickled to hear the cool music...Of course if it werent for simfarm I would never have figured out how to edit autoexec to include himem....
They can have the e-mail from my system sure...if they can break the encryption I set on it. Then we will truly see if they have those "Uber hacking" machines that the public believes they do. Good thing Exchange stores the files in flat files rather than useful ways, makes for easy right click encrypt:)
Of course my grand plan gets fuddled up when they just stick a sniffer on the outside of my network. But maybe by then I will have figured it out and set my firewall to deny traffic containing the terms that incriminate us.
Then I guess the worst thing they can do is cut off my access to the int......._carrier lost_.........
I agree, not necessarily that you need to comment every X lines as that can get ridiculous at times. However, Breadcrumbs and nice comments on what the next section of code is going to do and what so you can briefly look at it in a couple years and know if that particular section is going to do what you want it to.
I really like the PHP5.conf source files, but that is a hell of a lot of documentation meant for a different market and would be impractical in my opinion to do with a larger project.
Sorry to all of you who took the music comment the wrong way. I have just had an odd experience so far with devs. Be it coincidence or not, the devs/CS guys I have worked with that have been the best fit for the position for some reason have had serious interest in music. Be it Vocal, instrumental, or a music aficionado, but at some point in their lives had been very involved in music. This of course is not exclusive, just an interesting observation.
wow! a whole couple hundred happy users....you are surely ready for the big time.
It is my experience that the employer's happiness doesn't define the good coder, the longevity, and readability of their work does. Oh and attitude. Yes I am an employer.
A good programmer doesn't write 20 line ambiguous intelligent scripts that do the job. A good programmer plans for his demise/departure by following the standards in the industry. I would rather a project take 30% more time but be supportable by more than the creator.
This comes from experience, I work on multiple networks and have been through more than one web migration. I tell ya, the one thing that bugs me most is short sidedness, these programmers who are very intelligent and write scripts to prove to the world that they are smart. However they forget to document because why should you document something that works? You take those 20 line snippits and after 3 years or so you have about 100 of them in your environment, something breaks and all hell breaks loose for days because your replacement has to grep through all your code while you are unavailable.
Standard, Commented, well structured code is what I look for. You show me code examples that are easy to read and commented well. Also show me a positive attitude and have musical talent and you are hired.
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My suggestion would be to use a headhunter, sure they are expensive but you get matched up with quality people that match your business philosophy. Also to you job seekers out there I would suggest finding and hitting up Head Hunters. I have had extrordinary success with em on both sides of the table.
As I rant about often on /. the problem happened when there used to be a huge shortage of IT pros so you hired keyboard monkeys who could turn a screw or two. In some cases you got very progressive and intelligent IT people, in others...well you got the other paycheck hunters. So you promote them so they cause the least damage and because that is what companies do with people with tenure. then you hire real pros to take their place that end up hating their boss because the "Boss" really doesn't know what they are doing, therefore make up for it by bullying.
P.S. I enjoy consulting a great deal as well, peter and dilbert principles are nonexistant in this field as there is no one to carry those kind of people.
I could be wrong but I sued to bea ble to download all the patches to a given MS product in a redistributable form. It was a pain the first time around but after that I created my own Disk with a script that updated XP with all the patches. Now I havent had cause do do this in a little over a year or two since I don't work with remote sites anymore. But I would assume you can still do it. I do remember it being difficult to get to the section on MS's site where you could get all the patches in an offline format.
But that is the way it should be, The internet was made to be resilliant, and it does a damn good job of it. So before you start suing companies and yelling at people about not being able to erase your data, maybe you should have a good solid hand-to-forhead moment an realize you are a dumbass.
LOL, made my day.
Maybe actors and singers should take note of that.
And PHDs, Pastors, MDs or anyone else highly educated speaking of fields like an expert where they aren't.
"Intel was willing to engineer a new version of the Core 2 Duo specifically to Apple's specifications -- it's 60 percent smaller than others"
Ya, that doesn't sound custom at all. And yes it probably could be used for other things as long as Intel didn't sign some kind of agreement with apple NOT to use the chip in a competing device...cause apple would never do something like that.
The vista problems don't warrant a rebuild for me... yet. My main issues are the bluetooth not working on wakeup and some multiple monitor problems that I solved with UltraMon.
LOL, never mind, it was an irrational request meant for humor, I evidentially did not portray the facetiousness all too well.
_Insert end of the world Family Guy joke here._
in a whiny voice "Ya but who is going to carry around a Micro-DVI port converter, possibly with a cable". :)
That is where I was going with that
LOL I lived in the country....took me a long time to figure out that my lines were the problem. However it was soooooo cool the first time I connected to a friend's PC and we could type back and forth to each other.
The cost of electronics doesn't go up,
Did you not see the custom Dual Core built for it? Or the thin hard drive....ya I bet those cost just as much as all the other processors and hard drives of the same spec to manufacture.
I agree here, I love love love the XPS 1330 series with the LED display. I will pay $2500 for one of those any day of the week. I bought 3 just last year for co-workers the only complaints I have had so far are Vista issues.
You might as well complain about the tiny hard drive and lack of optical audio and no DVI output. Oh well, some people just don't get it.
Wow! did you really not get the quote or are you just trying to be funny? :)
Not to be a "get off my lawn" guy, but it did offer a bit more to the game when you were setting up your init strings and loading ipx drivers, so that when you did actually get doom up and a going you really got the wow factor. Now you just plug your xbox into the LAN and off you go.
ahhhh commander keen....that was also when I first discovered sound cards. Played that game forever until we got a PC with a card in it and I was tickled to hear the cool music...Of course if it werent for simfarm I would never have figured out how to edit autoexec to include himem....
Of course my grand plan gets fuddled up when they just stick a sniffer on the outside of my network. But maybe by then I will have figured it out and set my firewall to deny traffic containing the terms that incriminate us.
Then I guess the worst thing they can do is cut off my access to the int......._carrier lost_.........
I really like the PHP5 .conf source files, but that is a hell of a lot of documentation meant for a different market and would be impractical in my opinion to do with a larger project.
Sorry to all of you who took the music comment the wrong way. I have just had an odd experience so far with devs. Be it coincidence or not, the devs/CS guys I have worked with that have been the best fit for the position for some reason have had serious interest in music. Be it Vocal, instrumental, or a music aficionado, but at some point in their lives had been very involved in music. This of course is not exclusive, just an interesting observation.
(D)Someone will search for the and code exploit it just to stamp out your hubris.
It is my experience that the employer's happiness doesn't define the good coder, the longevity, and readability of their work does. Oh and attitude. Yes I am an employer.
best quote ever.
This comes from experience, I work on multiple networks and have been through more than one web migration. I tell ya, the one thing that bugs me most is short sidedness, these programmers who are very intelligent and write scripts to prove to the world that they are smart. However they forget to document because why should you document something that works? You take those 20 line snippits and after 3 years or so you have about 100 of them in your environment, something breaks and all hell breaks loose for days because your replacement has to grep through all your code while you are unavailable.
Standard, Commented, well structured code is what I look for. You show me code examples that are easy to read and commented well. Also show me a positive attitude and have musical talent and you are hired.