"Network Operations" is actually used a lot at the actual operational level. It's just the Administrative policy making level (run mostly by people a decade or more 'over the hill')that gets wrapped up in buzzwords.
Also: 'Cybercommand' will probably get more attention than 'Network Operations and Security Command'... NetOpsSecCom maybe?
I'm rather surprised they haven't called it GloryHole. I mean between the bullshit with Senators in bathrooms, and this brouhaha of TeaBagging Obama, why not just simply call it what it is for Congressman to readily understand and be done with it.
Although personally I think the Pentagon's CloudCommand seems to be a fairly good choice as well, given when their not wearing ass-hats, they're certainly having them up in the clouds.
lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.
Wrong. Parents and taxpayers sacrifice money, time and effort to pay for education; if students are too addicted to X to learn anything then it's money down the drain just like gambling.
Right.. So show me where an 8 year old understand the value of money when it comes to an education... Hell show me an 8 year old that can demonstrate anything beyond me and what money can buy the 8 year old, and I'll show you an 8 year old that has been trained like a monkey to answer the questions the right way.
Really, all you're doing is being a cranky old crotch that's tired of paying taxes.
I usually replace Norton with AVG, and while I'm not a huge fan of AVG, I've never had anyone complain.
Allow me to be the first to complain. My experience with AVG is that it treated a patch to a game as a root-kit (false positive with every other AV software I've used since). And arbitrarily removed necessary DLLs for the phone software that I installed effectively rendering the interface unusable until I uninstalled AVG. (Another false positive).
Because of it misbehaving and not wanting to risk another false positive arbitrary removal, I have since moved over to ESET's NOD32.
No offense intended, but at least the tech support people I talk to on the phone just follow a script (which make you follow), so to me first line support means 'a hurdle I need to pass asap'. Last time I needed "support" they asked me to reboot my computer, then press the windows key, move the mouse to 'run', then type c-m-d then press enter, then type in the black box 'i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g', etc. This was my telco and the problem was I didn't have service. The woman on the phone said they only supported Windows and because I said I had linux she wouldn't open a ticket. I had to fake replacing the linux computer with a windows one ("luckily" I had a work laptop around) before having a ticket open.
Anyway...this is what I'd think if I was interviewing you, but I might be completely wrong. I'd like to think you would have a fair chance to change my mind, though.
Having worked at the various flavors of Support (Tier I, II & III Phone support, Desktop, and Network) along with Desktop and Server Roll-Out and Implementation for over 20 years, I can tell you that any technician you describe here in your post won't last very long, and are usually weeded out after a short time of them treating all callers the same way....
On the flip side, when I'm taking calls and ask "Which version of Windows are you running?" and get the response back, "I have no idea" or "what?" or "It's Windows!" I know that it's going to be a long call.
Further, If you think your treatment is an accurate portrayal of phone support, I can give you 30 calls prior to and 40 calls after yours of people that shouldn't be using computers to begin with and know just enough to be truly ignorant about everything particularly when they think when they hit the power button it's supposed to work 100% of the time.
However, this isn't the answers to the problems that ScuttleMonkey's looking for. The problem is that I'm wagering that he's relatively young, has some experience with computers, and is misinterpreting at least one interview's reasoning for not hiring him as the general stigma of the whole market.
While it's true that interviewers rarely look at one's degree on a resume, at the same time why should they when you have college grads trying to apply for a position as a web-designer that has a BA in History, or someone applying for a Network Solutions Analyst with a BA in Communications? You think these are tall tales? Not in the least, in the former, I could only stare gobsmacked, and the latter I discouraged every time he opened his mouth.
Keep in mind, a resume is supposed to be simply the calling card. It's not even the handshake of a meeting, but simply the request to meet to discuss what's being offered and how the interviewee can fit. What you do from there will either sell them, or have them look elsewhere.
What interviewers are looking for is someone that's going to commit their life to a company, or pass off a reasonable facsimile that they're going to dedicate more than a reasonable amount of time for the position; even if that's not going to be the case in 5 years.
Interviewers work on the misconception that if they invest in hiring the interviewee that going the company and/or the department is going to get something back from it and that it's going to be there forever (or 20 years, or whatever illusion of permanence they have going in their head at the time).
They don't want to see a whole lot of experience in other fields because what they see in all that "other" experience is someone only coming into the position that they posted for taking this as as a "filler job", and are going to run back to their field of experience.
Potential employers want someone to come in cheaply and have the experience of someone in the highest tier of the position.
Potential employers don't see this or any sort of permanence from anyone just coming out of college. Or in this case, two years out since graduation... What they see here is someone sowin
Wow! *wiping tears from my eyes* This was fabulous. I need to share it around the office, I'm sure they'll appreciate the utter whacked attitude of some people here in the biggest little.
I think you should wake up and realize that this many people cant be wrong, Halo 1 was an exceptional. Halo 2 was ok, but halo 1 is my #1 favorite shooter, i wont waste my time trying to argument why (done it coutless times already over the years)
People can't be lemmings, running off the side of cliffs following the person in front of them? You are about this?
Yeah... But what happens when they lose their cell phone and they have to *gasp* trudge to a pay phone to call home? They're going to call 411 for that call?
There needs to be a balance as to what you should remember as opposed to what you NEED to remember.
They can settle outside the courts and the defendant who has filed the counter-claim will be offered a large enough sum of money that they can't resist, who will then drop the counter-claim.
By settling out of court, the message that will be sent out will be that the RIAA has been caught in wrong-doing. It will be also from there that the repercussions bite them in the ass in a way they don't expect.
Why does everyone whine about realplayer so much?
Well, it's usually the Windows users that complain about it so much. I personally find it rather annoying because every time it's loaded up, it drops in HKLM's Run the TKBell.exe, which is guaranteed to send one messages from Real.com (read: Advertising) even if during the installation process you unclick every open to being notified about anything from Real.
Not to mention that it has an annoying habit of being incredibly bloated, and trying to take possession of associations even if you told it to ignore trying to take any during the initial installation.
the hell are they going to use error reports for? so they know whats not broken and go blow that up? it sounds like hystrics to me.
What they're trying to do is prevent such data where outages are, that way "terrorist" won't be able to figure out where the outages are, and plan attacks against targets that fall within the outages.
Needless to say though -- you're quite right in this. This is nothing more than hysterics, primarily because the information is still provided free of charge by the phone companies themselves and now that this information has been disseminated through/. It also means...
OH MY GAWD!!! We're supplying the information to terrorists.
Yawns & Rolls his eyes
This terrorist threat shit is really beginning to parade on my nerves.
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm on an exotic vacation, I don't go out and start taking pictures of my car.
I'm sitting here asking me, how much money is being funneled into this program from my taxes, that is paying for this sophomoric frat boy picture taking myself.
You're confusing MSN messenger with Windows Messenger. I've been using MSN Messenger for some time now, and I've never seen the amount of spam that I used to with Windows Messenger. And there's a better run line that removes the entire package from a system never to be seen again which can be found here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remov e.htm.
For those of you acting all "chicken little" about an exploit that is not only fixed, but can be scanned for as malicious in several popular Anti-Virus Products as of the end of last week, following is the command that I have successfully used to remove Windows Messenger from my system. From a Run Dialog Box, copy & paste the following:
More security? -- Prefer Firefox for this sort of thing so far as their response time is outstanding when an exploit is found.
The Google Search Bar? *yawn* Tried it, moved on from it -- still prefer Copernic for my search capabilities, and I can hit 15 search engines at the same time when I do so.
More bloat? Don't need that.
Another tool to up-yours the Microsoft Hegemony? I do that every time I open up Firefix.
The majority of Slashdot readers seem to be pissed about the greatest trilogy of all-time being released on the most popular video format right now.
No, this Slashdot reader's pissed because Lucas is releasing another revision to his original vision. I can only put up with just so much retooling before it starts looking like an act of greed. Especially given the way that Episode VI panders to pre-teens with those blasted Ewoks
If you think that's a liability, you really don't understand the hallmarks of bluetooth and what its purposes are.
That's the beauty of the market though. It's not about whether or not you actually know the value of Bluetooth Technology -- word of mouth will work against a product when the words short-range come into play. Who wants technology that works only on the short-range when people are actually wanting more? Just the geeks that know it's value and what it means.
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Do you remember SARS?
Do you remember Bird Flu, Spanish Flu, and Ebola?
I wonder when the news will realize their responsibility that sensationalism causes the sheeple to panic.
lol - you wish!
(It's not caught from eating pork)
Apparent damage to sarcasm duly noted.
So tell me, did this damage to your sense of sarcasm happen because of the swine flu, or just hanging around here for years?
"Network Operations" is actually used a lot at the actual operational level. It's just the Administrative policy making level (run mostly by people a decade or more 'over the hill')that gets wrapped up in buzzwords. Also: 'Cybercommand' will probably get more attention than 'Network Operations and Security Command' ... NetOpsSecCom maybe?
I'm rather surprised they haven't called it GloryHole. I mean between the bullshit with Senators in bathrooms, and this brouhaha of TeaBagging Obama, why not just simply call it what it is for Congressman to readily understand and be done with it.
Although personally I think the Pentagon's CloudCommand seems to be a fairly good choice as well, given when their not wearing ass-hats, they're certainly having them up in the clouds.
lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.
Wrong. Parents and taxpayers sacrifice money, time and effort to pay for education; if students are too addicted to X to learn anything then it's money down the drain just like gambling.
Right.. So show me where an 8 year old understand the value of money when it comes to an education... Hell show me an 8 year old that can demonstrate anything beyond me and what money can buy the 8 year old, and I'll show you an 8 year old that has been trained like a monkey to answer the questions the right way.
Really, all you're doing is being a cranky old crotch that's tired of paying taxes.
I usually replace Norton with AVG, and while I'm not a huge fan of AVG, I've never had anyone complain.
Allow me to be the first to complain. My experience with AVG is that it treated a patch to a game as a root-kit (false positive with every other AV software I've used since). And arbitrarily removed necessary DLLs for the phone software that I installed effectively rendering the interface unusable until I uninstalled AVG. (Another false positive).
Because of it misbehaving and not wanting to risk another false positive arbitrary removal, I have since moved over to ESET's NOD32.
No offense intended, but at least the tech support people I talk to on the phone just follow a script (which make you follow), so to me first line support means 'a hurdle I need to pass asap'. Last time I needed "support" they asked me to reboot my computer, then press the windows key, move the mouse to 'run', then type c-m-d then press enter, then type in the black box 'i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g', etc. This was my telco and the problem was I didn't have service. The woman on the phone said they only supported Windows and because I said I had linux she wouldn't open a ticket. I had to fake replacing the linux computer with a windows one ("luckily" I had a work laptop around) before having a ticket open. Anyway...this is what I'd think if I was interviewing you, but I might be completely wrong. I'd like to think you would have a fair chance to change my mind, though.
Having worked at the various flavors of Support (Tier I, II & III Phone support, Desktop, and Network) along with Desktop and Server Roll-Out and Implementation for over 20 years, I can tell you that any technician you describe here in your post won't last very long, and are usually weeded out after a short time of them treating all callers the same way....
On the flip side, when I'm taking calls and ask "Which version of Windows are you running?" and get the response back, "I have no idea" or "what?" or "It's Windows!" I know that it's going to be a long call.
Further, If you think your treatment is an accurate portrayal of phone support, I can give you 30 calls prior to and 40 calls after yours of people that shouldn't be using computers to begin with and know just enough to be truly ignorant about everything particularly when they think when they hit the power button it's supposed to work 100% of the time.
However, this isn't the answers to the problems that ScuttleMonkey's looking for. The problem is that I'm wagering that he's relatively young, has some experience with computers, and is misinterpreting at least one interview's reasoning for not hiring him as the general stigma of the whole market.
While it's true that interviewers rarely look at one's degree on a resume, at the same time why should they when you have college grads trying to apply for a position as a web-designer that has a BA in History, or someone applying for a Network Solutions Analyst with a BA in Communications? You think these are tall tales? Not in the least, in the former, I could only stare gobsmacked, and the latter I discouraged every time he opened his mouth.
Keep in mind, a resume is supposed to be simply the calling card. It's not even the handshake of a meeting, but simply the request to meet to discuss what's being offered and how the interviewee can fit. What you do from there will either sell them, or have them look elsewhere.
What interviewers are looking for is someone that's going to commit their life to a company, or pass off a reasonable facsimile that they're going to dedicate more than a reasonable amount of time for the position; even if that's not going to be the case in 5 years.
Interviewers work on the misconception that if they invest in hiring the interviewee that going the company and/or the department is going to get something back from it and that it's going to be there forever (or 20 years, or whatever illusion of permanence they have going in their head at the time).
They don't want to see a whole lot of experience in other fields because what they see in all that "other" experience is someone only coming into the position that they posted for taking this as as a "filler job", and are going to run back to their field of experience.
Potential employers want someone to come in cheaply and have the experience of someone in the highest tier of the position.
Potential employers don't see this or any sort of permanence from anyone just coming out of college. Or in this case, two years out since graduation... What they see here is someone sowin
Wow! *wiping tears from my eyes* This was fabulous. I need to share it around the office, I'm sure they'll appreciate the utter whacked attitude of some people here in the biggest little.
81849 Signatures Total at the time I signed this... Nice!
Bless.. Didn't do well with Mathematical word problems in school did you? You just repeated what he said already.
People can't be lemmings, running off the side of cliffs following the person in front of them? You are about this?
There needs to be a balance as to what you should remember as opposed to what you NEED to remember.
How luddite of you *tongue in cheek*
By settling out of court, the message that will be sent out will be that the RIAA has been caught in wrong-doing. It will be also from there that the repercussions bite them in the ass in a way they don't expect.
Why does everyone whine about realplayer so much? Well, it's usually the Windows users that complain about it so much. I personally find it rather annoying because every time it's loaded up, it drops in HKLM's Run the TKBell.exe, which is guaranteed to send one messages from Real.com (read: Advertising) even if during the installation process you unclick every open to being notified about anything from Real. Not to mention that it has an annoying habit of being incredibly bloated, and trying to take possession of associations even if you told it to ignore trying to take any during the initial installation.
the hell are they going to use error reports for? so they know whats not broken and go blow that up? it sounds like hystrics to me.
What they're trying to do is prevent such data where outages are, that way "terrorist" won't be able to figure out where the outages are, and plan attacks against targets that fall within the outages.
Needless to say though -- you're quite right in this. This is nothing more than hysterics, primarily because the information is still provided free of charge by the phone companies themselves and now that this information has been disseminated through /. It also means...
OH MY GAWD!!! We're supplying the information to terrorists.
Yawns & Rolls his eyes
This terrorist threat shit is really beginning to parade on my nerves.
I have a bad feeeling [sic] that Lucas is going to leave instructions in his will that nobody can make any more SW movies.
Does the Star Wars: Christmas Special remind anyone else that making anything television from the Star Wars Universe a really, really bad idea?
What? Like more security holes and bugs into the software. Oooh! Sign me up, that's what *I*want more of.
I think it was called "Salvage 1"
OMG. Andy Griffith's forray into sci-fi. And here I thought that I had blissfully forgetten it. Thank you very much for reminding me about it.
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm on an exotic vacation, I don't go out and start taking pictures of my car.
I'm sitting here asking me, how much money is being funneled into this program from my taxes, that is paying for this sophomoric frat boy picture taking myself.
Why anyone would use msn messenger is beyond me
You're confusing MSN messenger with Windows Messenger. I've been using MSN Messenger for some time now, and I've never seen the amount of spam that I used to with Windows Messenger. And there's a better run line that removes the entire package from a system never to be seen again which can be found here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_messenger_remov e.htm.
For those of you acting all "chicken little" about an exploit that is not only fixed, but can be scanned for as malicious in several popular Anti-Virus Products as of the end of last week, following is the command that I have successfully used to remove Windows Messenger from my system. From a Run Dialog Box, copy & paste the following:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Yeah, but it also panders to the dads with that metal bikini :).
There had to be a perk for some of the parents in order to sit through some of that rather painful episode.
why dont they plop a big donation to spybot and include it ?? Or fine come up with their own.
You mean assimilate, like they did Netscape and ICQ? Thanks, I would prefer Spybot be free of the AO-Borg assimilation.
it would seem smart to bring out a browser.
Yes, but what would it have to really offer?
More security? -- Prefer Firefox for this sort of thing so far as their response time is outstanding when an exploit is found.
The Google Search Bar? *yawn* Tried it, moved on from it -- still prefer Copernic for my search capabilities, and I can hit 15 search engines at the same time when I do so.
More bloat? Don't need that.
Another tool to up-yours the Microsoft Hegemony? I do that every time I open up Firefix.
The majority of Slashdot readers seem to be pissed about the greatest trilogy of all-time being released on the most popular video format right now.
No, this Slashdot reader's pissed because Lucas is releasing another revision to his original vision. I can only put up with just so much retooling before it starts looking like an act of greed. Especially given the way that Episode VI panders to pre-teens with those blasted Ewoks
If you think that's a liability, you really don't understand the hallmarks of bluetooth and what its purposes are.
That's the beauty of the market though. It's not about whether or not you actually know the value of Bluetooth Technology -- word of mouth will work against a product when the words short-range come into play. Who wants technology that works only on the short-range when people are actually wanting more? Just the geeks that know it's value and what it means.