Funny thing was, I use to work at a company that wrote Voice over IP software. We had these Cisco IP phones at our desk. Since we "ate our own dog food" in that we were always running a beta version of our server software for our phone service, we were frequently making changes. The phones were really a small computer (you could ping 'em) with a JVM and everything. When they made changes, some changes wouldn't take affect until you restarted, so they would come in and say "you need to reboot your phone"... it was hysterical, although mine only "crashed" once.
well, I beg to differ. You can't BECOME a monopoly by being a monopolist, by definition. You MAINTAIN a monopoly through anti-competitive, monopolistic action.
Well, marketing runs companies in a free market society, which is why "imperfect" software like Microsoft's is the best selling.
Specs? testing? what is that? I've been coding in IT depts/a.dot bomb/a consulting firm and now a government contractor. Of those, the current one has the best specs/testing and it's getting ok, but our new CS post-doc grad just looked in horror "How can you devlop is this environment." He wanted to spend two weeks writing a object model and test plan.. hey, this enhancment is due to DEPLOY in six weeks. I told him this envionment is the best I've seen in seven years and he is seriously thinking about a career change or going back into academia. Welcome to the real world.
well, the way to do it is to turn on security audiiting and log "failed" accesses (you don't want to do this permanently, turn on, run software, turn off). then look at the log. You want to do this for registry as well. Sometimes it is a physical file, sometimes a registry key you need to give the "users" group permission to.
It pisses me off, because I am doing the company's job. You can usually figure it out and write a script or bat file with cacls to apply the permisions the user needs.
right, that works if people use COM correctly by using say ado.recordset instead of the GUID {!S2a, whatever)... then you could just put out a new version. I agree with the parent post.. why should Microsoft coddle these folks? why would you hard code the objectID of an MDAC component? My user could have any number of versions installed....
Yeah, the drivers/setups are getting better as they migrate to a system where user privileges are involves (as opposed to 9x), but it's still a joke. I have a scanner that won't FUNCTION under win2k unless you are in the admin group. The manufacturer seemed to not care "run as admin", they said. So I turned on auditing, and found the specific files it needed to have access to (and didn't). Emailed them the result six months ago. No response and no updated drivers or even and KB article describing the workaround. Lovely.
wow! do you get on call pay? I used to have a cell phone, but I certainly didn't give anyone in the company my number. My boss asked for it once and I told him if he paid the bill, I'd think about it.
my work list hasn't grown too bad. we're a government contractor and we're on site, which cuts down on requests to work overtime much (because the building isn't open late much. We can't stay without a federal employee here). Not that I work overtime anyway.
But, what I have noticed is a reluctance to spend much on training/extras. I've read attendance at industry shows/dev conventions is down. I've talked to other people from my former company and all agree that it's tough to get the authorizations approved for travel and classes and stuff.
It just goes along with the "less pampering" attittude. There's a bunch of guys they could hire to do your job (at least until you get detailed business knowledge that is tough to replace).
I propose we fly all these folks to the moon to see for themselves and "accidentally" program the autopilot to crash into a crater after flying them low over the landing site.
Can we put the telemarketers on board while we are at it?
well, much of msdn.microsoft.com isn't googled very well. Google is the be all end all of the web. Many companies' tech support site isn't indexed very well (oracle's OTN isn't, for one).
Any question on MS programming? First stop should be MSDN. Next stop: Google search the ms newsgroups (microsoft's NG interface is horrible). Then google the web. I mean, lots of programmers I know who do primarily microsoft programming work have MSDN as their home page...
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the interesting thing is... I read that if the casinos start getting a "take" of less than 8 or 9 percent at blackjack, they suspect cheating. That's how badly most folks play.
this works until your corporate officers are visiting someone at another company and says "well, just pull up our website. It's on there" and sees that (god forbid) it looks DIFFERENT (because he has raised his font size, has a different resolution) and comes screams at the IT department that the web site isn't following corporate look and feel standards.
That's why, in many large companies, the web site is COMPLETELY under the domain of the marketing department. IT/MIS has absolutely nothing to say about it.
this was my thought exactly. I think the reason the "dumb crook" stories are spread around so joyfully is that we WANT to belive that all criminals are stupid. I don't believe it. Even among homicide, the most henious, most investigated crime, there are a lot that go unsolved.
I may be confusing it with what happens when you do a response.redirect in ASP. I remember tracing headers (to resolve an authentication issue... don't ask) and being surprised at the 302 header. I always just figured IIS just switched the document, but actually, it sends the 302 back and the browser requests the new document.
I tried going to this http header viewer, but I couldn't really find a site to verify, but I think you are right, and I'm confusing it with the above situation.
Congratulations! that's why the VAST majority of business automation applications are written in Visual Basic! I've been trying to explain that to people on Slashdot for YEARS. The reason is (unless you care about cross-platform, which 99% of businesses don't care about because their desktops are standardized on Win32), Visual Basic is THE BEST TOOL FOR THE JOB. No question.
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Funny thing was, I use to work at a company that wrote Voice over IP software. We had these Cisco IP phones at our desk. Since we "ate our own dog food" in that we were always running a beta version of our server software for our phone service, we were frequently making changes. The phones were really a small computer (you could ping 'em) with a JVM and everything. When they made changes, some changes wouldn't take affect until you restarted, so they would come in and say "you need to reboot your phone"... it was hysterical, although mine only "crashed" once.
well, I beg to differ. You can't BECOME a monopoly by being a monopolist, by definition. You MAINTAIN a monopoly through anti-competitive, monopolistic action.
crap.. I meant "in this environment".. see, I'm so stressed, I can't even take time to use the preview button.
Well, marketing runs companies in a free market society, which is why "imperfect" software like Microsoft's is the best selling.
.dot bomb/a consulting firm and now a government contractor. Of those, the current one has the best specs/testing and it's getting ok, but our new CS post-doc grad just looked in horror "How can you devlop is this environment." He wanted to spend two weeks writing a object model and test plan.. hey, this enhancment is due to DEPLOY in six weeks. I told him this envionment is the best I've seen in seven years and he is seriously thinking about a career change or going back into academia. Welcome to the real world.
Specs? testing? what is that? I've been coding in IT depts/a
ok... this is the first slashdot comment scored +5 funny I actually laughed out loud at in over a month. kudos -- you should post at fark.com
that's because xp home is a steaming pile of shiat.
I'd really, really, like to understand why the upgrade to xp pro costs the same whether you have 98, me, 2000 pro, or xp home...
well, the way to do it is to turn on security audiiting and log "failed" accesses (you don't want to do this permanently, turn on, run software, turn off). then look at the log. You want to do this for registry as well. Sometimes it is a physical file, sometimes a registry key you need to give the "users" group permission to.
It pisses me off, because I am doing the company's job. You can usually figure it out and write a script or bat file with cacls to apply the permisions the user needs.
BING! BING! BING! excellent answer.
Tell him what he's won bob!
right, that works if people use COM correctly by using say ado.recordset instead of the GUID {!S2a, whatever) ... then you could just put out a new version. I agree with the parent post.. why should Microsoft coddle these folks? why would you hard code the objectID of an MDAC component? My user could have any number of versions installed....
Yeah, the drivers/setups are getting better as they migrate to a system where user privileges are involves (as opposed to 9x), but it's still a joke. I have a scanner that won't FUNCTION under win2k unless you are in the admin group. The manufacturer seemed to not care "run as admin", they said. So I turned on auditing, and found the specific files it needed to have access to (and didn't). Emailed them the result six months ago. No response and no updated drivers or even and KB article describing the workaround. Lovely.
one managed to work its way off in the drive from Texas
well... you know what us okies say: "nothing good ever comes out of Texas."
... and if someone wants me to be on call, they can pay me to be so.
wow! do you get on call pay? I used to have a cell phone, but I certainly didn't give anyone in the company my number. My boss asked for it once and I told him if he paid the bill, I'd think about it.
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my work list hasn't grown too bad. we're a government contractor and we're on site, which cuts down on requests to work overtime much (because the building isn't open late much. We can't stay without a federal employee here). Not that I work overtime anyway.
But, what I have noticed is a reluctance to spend much on training/extras. I've read attendance at industry shows/dev conventions is down. I've talked to other people from my former company and all agree that it's tough to get the authorizations approved for travel and classes and stuff.
It just goes along with the "less pampering" attittude. There's a bunch of guys they could hire to do your job (at least until you get detailed business knowledge that is tough to replace).
try Jdeveloper 9 from Oracle. What a steaming heap of shiat. It runs like a dog on my p4 1.8 ghz machine with 512 meg of memory.
This paranoid speculation with no evidence whatsoever gets a 5.
I'm speechless.
I propose we fly all these folks to the moon to see for themselves and "accidentally" program the autopilot to crash into a crater after flying them low over the landing site.
Can we put the telemarketers on board while we are at it?
well, much of msdn.microsoft.com isn't googled very well. Google is the be all end all of the web. Many companies' tech support site isn't indexed very well (oracle's OTN isn't, for one).
Any question on MS programming? First stop should be MSDN. Next stop: Google search the ms newsgroups (microsoft's NG interface is horrible). Then google the web. I mean, lots of programmers I know who do primarily microsoft programming work have MSDN as their home page...
the interesting thing is... I read that if the casinos start getting a "take" of less than 8 or 9 percent at blackjack, they suspect cheating. That's how badly most folks play.
this works until your corporate officers are visiting someone at another company and says "well, just pull up our website. It's on there" and sees that (god forbid) it looks DIFFERENT (because he has raised his font size, has a different resolution) and comes screams at the IT department that the web site isn't following corporate look and feel standards.
That's why, in many large companies, the web site is COMPLETELY under the domain of the marketing department. IT/MIS has absolutely nothing to say about it.
This is a fact of business life.
this was my thought exactly. I think the reason the "dumb crook" stories are spread around so joyfully is that we WANT to belive that all criminals are stupid. I don't believe it. Even among homicide, the most henious, most investigated crime, there are a lot that go unsolved.
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I may be confusing it with what happens when you do a response.redirect in ASP. I remember tracing headers (to resolve an authentication issue... don't ask) and being surprised at the 302 header. I always just figured IIS just switched the document, but actually, it sends the 302 back and the browser requests the new document.
I tried going to this http header viewer, but I couldn't really find a site to verify, but I think you are right, and I'm confusing it with the above situation.
Congratulations! that's why the VAST majority of business automation applications are written in Visual Basic! I've been trying to explain that to people on Slashdot for YEARS. The reason is (unless you care about cross-platform, which 99% of businesses don't care about because their desktops are standardized on Win32), Visual Basic is THE BEST TOOL FOR THE JOB. No question.