A computer that only runs stuff from the Windows Store is as useful to our main operations as used kitty litter.
Management could always decree that you need to rewrite your in-house software to run as an app on Win10S. I've seen some in-house software turned into apps to run on iPads.
A recruiter asked me to interview at a company where the hiring manager kept rejecting many qualified candidates. I went in, interviewed and reported back that the company was in pre-IPO mode that made the company reluctant to hire anyone and the hiring manager wanted a computer engineer at a help desk hourly rate.
IT position at 50k in Silicon Valley means you're an IT monkey that they can't outsource to India because they haven't got a remote controlled robot that can push power buttons and move equipment yet.
That's why I'm not concerned about being outsourced. If they build a robot to do the work I do, I'll be the guy who maintains the robots.
At my job that would be your Windows accounts (regular and admin) not working, your badge deactivated and no one in management returning your phone calls. If you call the help desk, they will confirm that your termination ticket is being processed. Eventually security shows to escort you out of the building.
First off if the raise is approved you might not handle the added workload and will want to leave or if its not approved and you start looking for another job.
That's the same canard I heard at Cisco when I asked about training. My manager could approve training to help me do my job better, but then I'll used the training to get another job at a competitor and make him look bad. Never mind that a lack training was why most employees trained themselves on Cisco certifications and get a job somewhere else. Corporate dysfunction at its best.
(Seriously, though, you should probably read the news today and make sure anything relevant is updated on your system.)
I practice safe computing. Most of my friends get into trouble because they look at naughty bits on the Internet. I know because I have to clean up their systems and admonished them for not practicing safe computing.
Or less offensively, there is opportunity all around you.
My current opportunity is a fully funded five-year, nation-wide contract that I'm halfway through. Although I'm only being paid $50K+ for being a system administrator for ~80,000 workstations (my manager fell out of his seat when I sent him a salary survey for what sys admins really make in Silicon Valley), I'm studying for my InfoSec certifications and my next job will be in the $100K+ range.
If you decide to make 50k in Silicon Valley, that is your choice.
That's the top rate for IT Support in Silicon Valley. Although that might be changing since young hipsters are unwilling to commute more than 30 minutes away from San Francisco. Some recruiters are offering $40 per hour to get people to work in Southern Silicon Valley (i.e., San Jose, Santa Clara or Sunnyvale).
You went to special ed classes - we all too AP classes.
While you were taking AP classes in high school, I graduated from eight years of Special Ed classes, skipped high school and got my A.A. degree in four years (two years of remedial courses and two years for major). A decade later I went back to community college to learn computer programming and graduated with 4.0 GPA.
You got kicked out of college.
I transferred to the university and got kicked a year later after attending school for five years straight. On the bright side, no student debt as I worked my way through college. I'll be retire in 30 years.
We graduated a year early.
You're only $75K in the hole for student debt. You won't be able to retire.
You tested video games - we coded video games.
I wrote 30,000+ bug reports in six years. You would think programmers could test their shit before giving it to QA.
That's generally true at my job. Except for the one time my boss called me up to praise me before giving me a blotched printer mitigation project that I could get me fired. Of course, I'm a miracle worker and got the job done.
I get feedback from Slashdot. For example, as an IT Support contractor who makes $50K+ in Silicon Valley, the feedback I got is: I don't make enough money to afford the American Dream, I'm a moocher because I work in government IT, I'm not a real IT person since didn't graduate from a CS program with $100K in student loans, I'm fat, ugly and retarded, and, worse, I'm not even ashamed of being fat..
[...] a hacker can now install a virus automatically without even troubling your users to open their mail!
I haven't seen a PC virus in 10+ years Windows Vista came out. These days I don't even have a separate AV scanner installed. I got Windows Defender and Malwarebytes installed.
I doubt Windows 10 S will ever get deployed for the Enterprise desktop. I work in a Windows 7 shop. Win8 got put into test but never deployed beyond a few dozen tablets. Win10 is in test and has a 50/50 chance of getting approved for deployment. Win10S might be the next Win8.
Nope. I remembered when the I LOVE YOU email virus circulated back in the day. Nothing like getting an email from the CEO that he loves you. That was a nuisance. What killed our email server wasn't the virus itself, but Norton's anti-virus email notifications that the virus-infected email got deleted. The Exchange servers got taken offline for a few days to get that mess cleaned up.
I might be more incline to go with Alpine email client. I used Pine for several years when I only had a dial-up UNIX account. Not sure if Alpine can handle a dozen email accounts.
That Mozilla will fix Thunderbird to connect to my iCloud account? That stopped working several months ago and I haven't found a fix for it.. I've had no problems accessing my dozen other email accounts, but none of those are iCloud accounts.
And yet, strangely incapable of refuting anything that's been offered up as advice?
Why bother? You are obviously determined to give bad diet advice to a fat person. Not to help, but to harm. I deal with guys like you at work all the time. One asshat told me unprompted in the middle of a meeting that I needed lap band surgery — and then wondered why every treated him like douche bag after the meeting.
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Time to break out the soldering iron and start burning out the built-in microphones. I don't want my PC waking up every time I take fart.
You are not a part of that community - you are a spammer, and you do not belong.
I've been part of Slashdot since 1999. Yes, I beat my own drum. I would rather be someone than another asshat in the crowd.
You threaten to shoot people who debate better than you. When this is pointed out, you are still not the victim.
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Have I Threatened To Shoot You Today?
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Most people want to give the finger to the Echo, not finger a touchscreen on the Echo.
A computer that only runs stuff from the Windows Store is as useful to our main operations as used kitty litter.
Management could always decree that you need to rewrite your in-house software to run as an app on Win10S. I've seen some in-house software turned into apps to run on iPads.
As soon as you finish coding your python script that shitposts on slashdot all day, your script will replace you, fat fuck.
Correct. Than I can spend my time on something more important. :P
It's a sounding board for racists, curmudgeons and Nazis to complain about a world that is passing them by.
And asshats who think that making $200K per year means that they're smarter than everyone else.
A recruiter asked me to interview at a company where the hiring manager kept rejecting many qualified candidates. I went in, interviewed and reported back that the company was in pre-IPO mode that made the company reluctant to hire anyone and the hiring manager wanted a computer engineer at a help desk hourly rate.
IT position at 50k in Silicon Valley means you're an IT monkey that they can't outsource to India because they haven't got a remote controlled robot that can push power buttons and move equipment yet.
That's why I'm not concerned about being outsourced. If they build a robot to do the work I do, I'll be the guy who maintains the robots.
If you are fucking up, they'll let you know.
At my job that would be your Windows accounts (regular and admin) not working, your badge deactivated and no one in management returning your phone calls. If you call the help desk, they will confirm that your termination ticket is being processed. Eventually security shows to escort you out of the building.
First off if the raise is approved you might not handle the added workload and will want to leave or if its not approved and you start looking for another job.
That's the same canard I heard at Cisco when I asked about training. My manager could approve training to help me do my job better, but then I'll used the training to get another job at a competitor and make him look bad. Never mind that a lack training was why most employees trained themselves on Cisco certifications and get a job somewhere else. Corporate dysfunction at its best.
(Seriously, though, you should probably read the news today and make sure anything relevant is updated on your system.)
I practice safe computing. Most of my friends get into trouble because they look at naughty bits on the Internet. I know because I have to clean up their systems and admonished them for not practicing safe computing.
You forgot the part where you're also an insensitive clod!
I would be working in IT if I wasn't an asshole. ;)
Or less offensively, there is opportunity all around you.
My current opportunity is a fully funded five-year, nation-wide contract that I'm halfway through. Although I'm only being paid $50K+ for being a system administrator for ~80,000 workstations (my manager fell out of his seat when I sent him a salary survey for what sys admins really make in Silicon Valley), I'm studying for my InfoSec certifications and my next job will be in the $100K+ range.
If you decide to make 50k in Silicon Valley, that is your choice.
That's the top rate for IT Support in Silicon Valley. Although that might be changing since young hipsters are unwilling to commute more than 30 minutes away from San Francisco. Some recruiters are offering $40 per hour to get people to work in Southern Silicon Valley (i.e., San Jose, Santa Clara or Sunnyvale).
Aren't you the guy who suggested quite seriously that someone pursue an A+ certification?
If you're starting off in help desk, the A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows certifications will make a great foundation for future certifications.
This site is for smart people.
So why are you here then?
You went to special ed classes - we all too AP classes.
While you were taking AP classes in high school, I graduated from eight years of Special Ed classes, skipped high school and got my A.A. degree in four years (two years of remedial courses and two years for major). A decade later I went back to community college to learn computer programming and graduated with 4.0 GPA.
You got kicked out of college.
I transferred to the university and got kicked a year later after attending school for five years straight. On the bright side, no student debt as I worked my way through college. I'll be retire in 30 years.
We graduated a year early.
You're only $75K in the hole for student debt. You won't be able to retire.
You tested video games - we coded video games.
I wrote 30,000+ bug reports in six years. You would think programmers could test their shit before giving it to QA.
Do ya get it now retard?
Sorry, asshat, you're not any better than me.
Finding the jobs that no one else wants to do is a good way to gain recognition.
That's generally true at my job. Except for the one time my boss called me up to praise me before giving me a blotched printer mitigation project that I could get me fired. Of course, I'm a miracle worker and got the job done.
I get feedback from Slashdot. For example, as an IT Support contractor who makes $50K+ in Silicon Valley, the feedback I got is: I don't make enough money to afford the American Dream, I'm a moocher because I work in government IT, I'm not a real IT person since didn't graduate from a CS program with $100K in student loans, I'm fat, ugly and retarded, and, worse, I'm not even ashamed of being fat..
[...] a hacker can now install a virus automatically without even troubling your users to open their mail!
I haven't seen a PC virus in 10+ years Windows Vista came out. These days I don't even have a separate AV scanner installed. I got Windows Defender and Malwarebytes installed.
I doubt Windows 10 S will ever get deployed for the Enterprise desktop. I work in a Windows 7 shop. Win8 got put into test but never deployed beyond a few dozen tablets. Win10 is in test and has a 50/50 chance of getting approved for deployment. Win10S might be the next Win8.
Nope. I remembered when the I LOVE YOU email virus circulated back in the day. Nothing like getting an email from the CEO that he loves you. That was a nuisance. What killed our email server wasn't the virus itself, but Norton's anti-virus email notifications that the virus-infected email got deleted. The Exchange servers got taken offline for a few days to get that mess cleaned up.
I might be more incline to go with Alpine email client. I used Pine for several years when I only had a dial-up UNIX account. Not sure if Alpine can handle a dozen email accounts.
That Mozilla will fix Thunderbird to connect to my iCloud account? That stopped working several months ago and I haven't found a fix for it.. I've had no problems accessing my dozen other email accounts, but none of those are iCloud accounts.
And yet, strangely incapable of refuting anything that's been offered up as advice?
Why bother? You are obviously determined to give bad diet advice to a fat person. Not to help, but to harm. I deal with guys like you at work all the time. One asshat told me unprompted in the middle of a meeting that I needed lap band surgery — and then wondered why every treated him like douche bag after the meeting.