NO amount of IT talent will save your ass from the political character assassinations and corporate jostling, unless you learn LIFE first. The first time you are in a situation where you don't have the stomach or balls to get the job done, you will wish you had dropped a few burgers on the floor. On that note, if you are as good as you say you are, you will be managing the grunts that flip those burgers anyway. I also grew up in an university town,(never as cool as Austin) and I was the manager everywhere I worked... managed all the people who were supposed to be smart. I attended a C.C where my mother is a programmer (nearly cost free!) and learned about life and the sharks and minnows along the way as well as business modeling yada yada.... all by 21 and was working then. From there life's adventure started.... give it some time;-)
I am seeing a great potential for a great "web" joke. If you are in charge in an institution that employs content filtering. Block everything but.xxx and see who doesn't complain about the net being down!!
Give me 5!
sometimes I want to be the person in the 3rd world who has never ever even taken a phone call.... not the guy that has 15 remote sessions open, and 10 browser tabs... if I owned a mobile serial killing would not be far behind!
I sure as hell hope they are not considering Dell hardware and Windoze 2003 +clusterz for that many clients.... oh, the insanity i have lived..... now I really understand what "Going Postal" means!
I also work in a K-12, only half the workstations in a single domain, still.... roaming profiles are hell, have spent the last month gnashing my teeth over the management of their size accumulation and increasing log in times. The list gets worse. Enforce a mandatory profile for each division, k-4, 5-8, 9-12 (or how ever your school breaks it down) if possible. They should be playing by our rules:-/ hehe
good luck!
I agree with you, but most of the windows based p2p (not torrents) Kazaa and the gang give you more than you bargain for, or not even what you asked for. It is really the malware that is using the p2p as a method of delivery, and that is the problem.:-/
one, look for hitman pro anti spyware utility.
two, if you really need help look for killbox follow the directions to kill the process and delete the files.
three, good luck
Didn't Larry Flynt say that? No that is not it..it's..."I'm just guilty of bad taste..."?
China has thousands of internet police! 30,000± That is pretty f%c#in scary.
Get out of my mind! This is just what I was thinking when I read this post... More chances for gov't monitoring/control, hmm just what we need. No thanks, I will keep paying the best ISP in the Netherlands to keep the gov'ts hands off my internet activity, I'm glad I no longer live in America anymore when I hear of this kind of double talk.
Great post!
I saw myself 20+ yrs ago when I read your post... I went to "Community College" while working near full time, and walked away with the coveted A.S. Then found a job, worked it for almost 2 yrs. The job ended, and I went back to school for the B.A. All the while traveling with in the U.S. After graduating with the B.A. Europe, backpacking.... now 15 years later, I live in Europe. --
"Be the ball, Danny."
1. no car! Bike or Pub Trans...(borrow a car in dire need only!)
2. clock thermostat for when I am at work AND asleep
3. turn off lights when you leave a room, that is why there is a switch, Hello Edison?
4. RECYCLE, it may not save you energy directly, but will save it in the long run.
On that last note, what is to be done with things like, bic pens when they die, bic razors, bic lighters(nothing against bic, just too lazy to write or spell disposable many times) too bad bic doesn't make toothbrushes, they could make all the things I wonder where and how to recycle. There are probably more, but it is friday evening here, and.... beer calls! in bottles that return for deposit!
Cheers!
You should check in somewhere.... unless you have lots of cash, then just fuck off.... why would you give a shit what anyone thinks if you have cash enough to quit a job because it's flavor has changed. Good luck explaining this to your next prospective employer..... oh wait you have cash..... or in a market where your shit doesn't stink.... in any case
seek help, unless you have cash....
"The key with students is that you need to make a subject or a technology a drug of choice."
How about using technology as an activity of choice? There are enough references to drugs in society, why link a computer to drugs (no pun intended):-)
Any good network engineer/support personnel should be able to out double talk an average educator when it comes to OS's and benefits, oh, sorry I meant car salesman....
Open office. http://www.openoffice.org/ I use it to open one student's office files and print them (as we are a win/MAC environment), the "only" student who has loaded linux at home and seems serious about it. I have used OO at home to open my MS word docs no problems...Oh, right, I am network support at an international secondary school. IMO a good basic start.
Sounds like you have family close by. I am 4000 miles from my family. I would gladly help them out.... My clients, beg me to work for them, they have been gouged by the local computer shop with no improvement or explanation. I have offended clients by shaving hours to charge them less because I didn't do more than virus and malware scans... I do not advertise, my services are known by word of mouth/reputation. I am in no way the greatest whiz on the computer, I get the job done in a friendly and informative manner(when the client really wants to know, some don't) I try to keep the social/human element in place. Sounds like you do too!
Thanx
Greetings,
I have been doing work on the side for a couple years now, and really was offered too much money to say no. $50./hr. Which makes my real salary in IT look as pathetic as it really is.....
I will do either type of work, at the resicence, or at my place. I tell them up front that it will be cheaper at my place. If I spend 4 hours scanning a 100GB disk for virus, spyware, adware and trojans at their place.... done the math yet? I keep detailed records of my work at my place, to the tenth of an hour, and what steps I have taken. I can start a scan that will take time, and move on to something else.... My friends with computers are tech savy, so it is really the general public I deal with.
I have also worked for other than ca$h. Everything from beer to auto repairs.... I even had an "indecent" proposal for payment, was married then..... I'll Barter, I'll Barter!
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Hey Greenhorn,
;-)
NO amount of IT talent will save your ass from the political character assassinations and corporate jostling, unless you learn LIFE first. The first time you are in a situation where you don't have the stomach or balls to get the job done, you will wish you had dropped a few burgers on the floor. On that note, if you are as good as you say you are, you will be managing the grunts that flip those burgers anyway. I also grew up in an university town,(never as cool as Austin) and I was the manager everywhere I worked... managed all the people who were supposed to be smart.
I attended a C.C where my mother is a programmer (nearly cost free!) and learned about life and the sharks and minnows along the way as well as business modeling yada yada.... all by 21 and was working then. From there life's adventure started.... give it some time
I am seeing a great potential for a great "web" joke. If you are in charge in an institution that employs content filtering. Block everything but .xxx and see who doesn't complain about the net being down!!
Give me 5!
sometimes I want to be the person in the 3rd world who has never ever even taken a phone call.... not the guy that has 15 remote sessions open, and 10 browser tabs... if I owned a mobile serial killing would not be far behind!
I sure as hell hope they are not considering Dell hardware and Windoze 2003 +clusterz for that many clients.... oh, the insanity i have lived..... now I really understand what "Going Postal" means! I also work in a K-12, only half the workstations in a single domain, still.... roaming profiles are hell, have spent the last month gnashing my teeth over the management of their size accumulation and increasing log in times. The list gets worse. Enforce a mandatory profile for each division, k-4, 5-8, 9-12 (or how ever your school breaks it down) if possible. They should be playing by our rules :-/ hehe
good luck!
I agree with you, but most of the windows based p2p (not torrents) Kazaa and the gang give you more than you bargain for, or not even what you asked for. It is really the malware that is using the p2p as a method of delivery, and that is the problem. :-/
In reality, it is someone else's system... he can only advise, as I do with all the requests I get for this very problem.
four, ditch any p2p stuff, really! Kazaa is doing more than you think!
one, look for hitman pro anti spyware utility. two, if you really need help look for killbox follow the directions to kill the process and delete the files. three, good luck
play doh! makes bars... comes in cylinders... lots of color, just like graphs! whoopee!
FMP.....d ucts_ftove r.htm
http://www.datadesigns.com/products/pro
Didn't Larry Flynt say that? No that is not it..it's..."I'm just guilty of bad taste..."? China has thousands of internet police! 30,000± That is pretty f%c#in scary.
I'd rather have an ISP like www.xs4all.nl protecting my rights, than letting the gov't an inch nearer my privacy....
Get out of my mind! This is just what I was thinking when I read this post... More chances for gov't monitoring/control, hmm just what we need. No thanks, I will keep paying the best ISP in the Netherlands to keep the gov'ts hands off my internet activity, I'm glad I no longer live in America anymore when I hear of this kind of double talk. Great post!
I saw myself 20+ yrs ago when I read your post... I went to "Community College" while working near full time, and walked away with the coveted A.S. Then found a job, worked it for almost 2 yrs. The job ended, and I went back to school for the B.A. All the while traveling with in the U.S. After graduating with the B.A. Europe, backpacking.... now 15 years later, I live in Europe. -- "Be the ball, Danny."
1. no car! Bike or Pub Trans...(borrow a car in dire need only!) 2. clock thermostat for when I am at work AND asleep 3. turn off lights when you leave a room, that is why there is a switch, Hello Edison? 4. RECYCLE, it may not save you energy directly, but will save it in the long run. On that last note, what is to be done with things like, bic pens when they die, bic razors, bic lighters(nothing against bic, just too lazy to write or spell disposable many times) too bad bic doesn't make toothbrushes, they could make all the things I wonder where and how to recycle. There are probably more, but it is friday evening here, and.... beer calls! in bottles that return for deposit! Cheers!
You should check in somewhere.... unless you have lots of cash, then just fuck off.... why would you give a shit what anyone thinks if you have cash enough to quit a job because it's flavor has changed. Good luck explaining this to your next prospective employer..... oh wait you have cash..... or in a market where your shit doesn't stink.... in any case seek help, unless you have cash....
probably on the linux boxes located in the M$ offices that boxes that really work!
"The key with students is that you need to make a subject or a technology a drug of choice." How about using technology as an activity of choice? There are enough references to drugs in society, why link a computer to drugs (no pun intended) :-)
Kidder1974 (580729) did already,
great contribution, too bad I already posted, i would moderate + chiVo
Any good network engineer/support personnel should be able to out double talk an average educator when it comes to OS's and benefits, oh, sorry I meant car salesman....
Open office. http://www.openoffice.org/ I use it to open one student's office files and print them (as we are a win/MAC environment), the "only" student who has loaded linux at home and seems serious about it. I have used OO at home to open my MS word docs no problems...Oh, right, I am network support at an international secondary school. IMO a good basic start.
Sounds like you have family close by. I am 4000 miles from my family. I would gladly help them out.... My clients, beg me to work for them, they have been gouged by the local computer shop with no improvement or explanation. I have offended clients by shaving hours to charge them less because I didn't do more than virus and malware scans... I do not advertise, my services are known by word of mouth/reputation. I am in no way the greatest whiz on the computer, I get the job done in a friendly and informative manner(when the client really wants to know, some don't) I try to keep the social/human element in place. Sounds like you do too! Thanx
Greetings, I have been doing work on the side for a couple years now, and really was offered too much money to say no. $50. /hr. Which makes my real salary in IT look as pathetic as it really is.....
I will do either type of work, at the resicence, or at my place. I tell them up front that it will be cheaper at my place. If I spend 4 hours scanning a 100GB disk for virus, spyware, adware and trojans at their place.... done the math yet? I keep detailed records of my work at my place, to the tenth of an hour, and what steps I have taken. I can start a scan that will take time, and move on to something else.... My friends with computers are tech savy, so it is really the general public I deal with.
I have also worked for other than ca$h. Everything from beer to auto repairs.... I even had an "indecent" proposal for payment, was married then..... I'll Barter, I'll Barter!