Its time to stop whining about the jobs leaving, and find reasons to keep them here... and show IT managers why they should do things the RIGHT way, teach them about value, not just about bottom dollar.
Or just sit back and let the market teach them if your argument:
I think that the way to convince middle and upper management to stop going overseas for tech workers is to convince them that although it might cost more to employ workers in the US, you get more value for your dollar if you stay at home, you get better code, better communication, and better management of the project.
Is true (and I'm not disagreeing, I suspect it has at least some validity).
Hopefully the economy will be busting a nut by the time I get out of school in three years. Maybe putting off college wasn't such a bad idea after all. I do sympathize with those of you that have dependents.
I'd also point out that, IMHO, these lanes are unsafe. Usually they are sandwhiched between a concrete barrier on one side and, often, a solid wall of unmoving cars on the other. When the carpool lane is flowing at 50 or 60 mph in such a situation, how does one even have the possibility of swerving safely to avoid an accident?
Obviously the sane solution is to take a MSF class and start riding a motorcycle to work! WahoO! Escaped the reaper.
That one is better but it still doesn't make much sense. Their goal is to improve, not create, the operating system. Of course I could be wrong. Maybe the OpenBSD people are going to rewrite OpenBSD from scratch in a week or two!
I upgraded to the Bayesian version of SpamAssassin as part of my regular maintenance. I didn't train it at all. It works great. If false positives are such a problem why not lower the bar on what gets into your inbox? I just save all my spam to a Spam folder and check it every once in a while (using IMAP). This works great for me and I can catch the occasional false positive. I've had maybe one or two in the last year and neither of them was particularly important emails. They were short notes that got flagged.
This in combination with the Mozilla mail client's Bayesian filter, which is easy to train, works wonderful. It would be cool to have Mozilla's Bayesian filter share its input with SpamAssassin.
Nice site except for all the images that have wrong height/width specified so they get stretched to nastiness. Some time in an image editor or changing the HTML would really help the look.
That partition tool on Mandrake 9.1 apparently can shrink NTFS partitions. I wish I could find somewhere just to get that tool and not have to snag a whole Mandrake ISO image.
Or maybe he's taking the "hey, at least I'm improving software people actually use" approach;). I'm writing this on a slackware laptop but it's hard to argue against working on Microsoft Office if you want to help the most people out there with their daily computing tasks. We all know MS Office could use improving and I'm sure the pay doesn't hurt either.
Toll booths don't die either as those of us who live in Chicago know. In the 1970s the toll booths were put in to pay for the highway but they were supposed to be removed after x years. Of course at about x + 10 years we are still paying the tolls.
Tangent: FreeBSD 5.0 has filesystem snapshots. Anyone interested in a more home-grown setup should take a look at that... Is there anything similar for ext3 or reiserfs?
Does anyone know why they chose a peer to peer arrangement instead of a dedicated server?
I'd guess that would be to encourage adoption of their software from the users instead of trying to appeal to jaded system administrators and other administration folks. No server makes it much easier to adopt for a small department in a large bureaucratic company.
Many people are of the opinion that Tiger Direct is anything but a fine store. They have a pretty bad reputation on the Hot Deals forum over at forums.anandtech.com. The annoyances start with the high shipping and quickly rise to more serious things from there (selling your contact information to mailing lists, theft of credit card numbers going unreported to customers, etc).
Microsoft has awesome support for their mice. I've had a couple die on me due to wires breaking in the cord where it enters the mouse body. All I had to do was call in and give them a shipping address and bam, there you go. No fuss, no shipping charge, no "send in the old mouse and we'll put a charge on your credit card until we get it" bullshit.
Your solution sounds ideal but I am wondering that if users download the files manually, wouldn't it be possible to just run squid at least between them and *.microsoft.com and have it handle the file caching (remember, we are now doing standard HTTP GETs, not any Windows Update oddness)? That would eliminate the need to have someone keep the updates archive current on the ISP side.
I particularly like the idaa of limiting the priority of traffic for windowsupdate.microsoft.com as it still lets the user run the applet to see what updates are out there and then decide what to download manually based on that...
Ideally MS would just fix the problem though as this whole workaround is just one more annoyance in the world of Windows.
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memtest86 - never leave home without it!
...we also have some 3Ware cards we could try if the new Promise drivers don't do the trick.
;).
What are you waiting for! You'll be trying the 3ware cards in a couple weeks almost guaranteed
Its time to stop whining about the jobs leaving, and find reasons to keep them here... and show IT managers why they should do things the RIGHT way, teach them about value, not just about bottom dollar.
Or just sit back and let the market teach them if your argument:
I think that the way to convince middle and upper management to stop going overseas for tech workers is to convince them that although it might cost more to employ workers in the US, you get more value for your dollar if you stay at home, you get better code, better communication, and better management of the project.
Is true (and I'm not disagreeing, I suspect it has at least some validity).
Hopefully the economy will be busting a nut by the time I get out of school in three years. Maybe putting off college wasn't such a bad idea after all. I do sympathize with those of you that have dependents.
Looks like O'Reilly has to charge VAT on Safari for the Europeans. Sucks to be...
I'd also point out that, IMHO, these lanes are unsafe. Usually they are sandwhiched between a concrete barrier on one side and, often, a solid wall of unmoving cars on the other. When the carpool lane is flowing at 50 or 60 mph in such a situation, how does one even have the possibility of swerving safely to avoid an accident?
Obviously the sane solution is to take a MSF class and start riding a motorcycle to work! WahoO! Escaped the reaper.
That "no carrier" joke really doesn't work if you include your sig.
You were right up until "if you include your sig."...
That "no carrier" joke really doesn't work.
Period.
That one is better but it still doesn't make much sense. Their goal is to improve, not create, the operating system. Of course I could be wrong. Maybe the OpenBSD people are going to rewrite OpenBSD from scratch in a week or two!
Wahoo!
I upgraded to the Bayesian version of SpamAssassin as part of my regular maintenance. I didn't train it at all. It works great. If false positives are such a problem why not lower the bar on what gets into your inbox? I just save all my spam to a Spam folder and check it every once in a while (using IMAP). This works great for me and I can catch the occasional false positive. I've had maybe one or two in the last year and neither of them was particularly important emails. They were short notes that got flagged.
This in combination with the Mozilla mail client's Bayesian filter, which is easy to train, works wonderful. It would be cool to have Mozilla's Bayesian filter share its input with SpamAssassin.
How much does it cost? The price seems to be hidden on their site.
I would bet that SpamAssassin would be useable as an Outlook module already if it weren't for the parent company being for profit.
Nice site except for all the images that have wrong height/width specified so they get stretched to nastiness. Some time in an image editor or changing the HTML would really help the look.
Just out of curiosity what sort of weekend job pays $200? I'm in school at the moment and that kind of cash on the weekend sounds pretty good to me.
Well if he's getting this line in his email headers:
"X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.44 (1.115.2.24-2003-01-30-exp)"
Then....
That partition tool on Mandrake 9.1 apparently can shrink NTFS partitions. I wish I could find somewhere just to get that tool and not have to snag a whole Mandrake ISO image.
People who have been using linux for years, know how stuff works, and aren't interested in learning it again use Debian.
Until it finally annoys them for the last freakin time and they switch back to what they started with - Slackware.
Or maybe he's taking the "hey, at least I'm improving software people actually use" approach ;). I'm writing this on a slackware laptop but it's hard to argue against working on Microsoft Office if you want to help the most people out there with their daily computing tasks. We all know MS Office could use improving and I'm sure the pay doesn't hurt either.
Toll booths don't die either as those of us who live in Chicago know. In the 1970s the toll booths were put in to pay for the highway but they were supposed to be removed after x years. Of course at about x + 10 years we are still paying the tolls.
+1 Informative if I was moderating ;).
Thanks for the link.
Tangent: FreeBSD 5.0 has filesystem snapshots. Anyone interested in a more home-grown setup should take a look at that... Is there anything similar for ext3 or reiserfs?
Does anyone know why they chose a peer to peer arrangement instead of a dedicated server?
I'd guess that would be to encourage adoption of their software from the users instead of trying to appeal to jaded system administrators and other administration folks. No server makes it much easier to adopt for a small department in a large bureaucratic company.
Did you install the libiconv port?
Many people are of the opinion that Tiger Direct is anything but a fine store. They have a pretty bad reputation on the Hot Deals forum over at forums.anandtech.com. The annoyances start with the high shipping and quickly rise to more serious things from there (selling your contact information to mailing lists, theft of credit card numbers going unreported to customers, etc).
So was the rebate actually from Amazon.com or was it from a manufacturer of one of the products?
There is a huge difference between store rebates and manufacturer/brand rebates...
Microsoft has awesome support for their mice. I've had a couple die on me due to wires breaking in the cord where it enters the mouse body. All I had to do was call in and give them a shipping address and bam, there you go. No fuss, no shipping charge, no "send in the old mouse and we'll put a charge on your credit card until we get it" bullshit.
;).
Hats off to MS for that at least
Thanks, I'll try that. I really should brush up on my ANSI SQL. Now lets just hope that MS Access ODBC, not my choice, supports some SQL-92!
Your solution sounds ideal but I am wondering that if users download the files manually, wouldn't it be possible to just run squid at least between them and *.microsoft.com and have it handle the file caching (remember, we are now doing standard HTTP GETs, not any Windows Update oddness)? That would eliminate the need to have someone keep the updates archive current on the ISP side.
I particularly like the idaa of limiting the priority of traffic for windowsupdate.microsoft.com as it still lets the user run the applet to see what updates are out there and then decide what to download manually based on that...
Ideally MS would just fix the problem though as this whole workaround is just one more annoyance in the world of Windows.