I agree with xaxa on his course of action. Just flood it down. The attention span of average searcher is kinda short. Just fill the search pages with something else, something more recent.
Besides, you were not convicted, there are worse things to have done in life than abuse of computers. Things will always follow you, but it makes who you are, you life is tougher but so will you.You just gotta frame your mind the right way
I agree 150 users can be very little or a lot. Ran a few NT machines till 2004 with over 250 users on hardware i dont even recognize(honewell ball-less mouse 2 magnetic thingys) they worked just fine.
Just threw away a farm for 50 users, had 1 server in the beginning but was seriously overloaded because once everyone heard of new hardware everybody poured in to use it. Damnation to single login policy.
Understanding user behavior is more valuable than flipping through brochures.
Usually 24 hour per second systat for 1 week should give u more than enough data
Maybe im missing something here?
Shouldn't all admins have signed an NDA specifically prohibiting him from releasing the passwords? He shouldn't even be talking about what servers they are.
I had an NDA that ran on for 1 1/2 years after I left a certain Job.
If he left the company/city tough luck its a management oversight.Its their job to go changing all the passwords even if its going rescue mode for each server.
There are reasons why you dont have a top admin hold on to all the passwords. But the moment you fire him, your on your own.
A Standards Comittee to review a 3000 page document, one xml file and one data dictionary
An Government Oversight Body to Oversee the Standards Comittee
A political analyst to analyze what the above 2 are doing.
Lobbyist from pharma companies to lobby putting company specific medicine in suggest medication drop down.
Patent clerks to process patent like "webased interactions with a indexable search information source that works over the internets"
Programmers to have the interface in blue/green
Database analysts to integrate custom private databases which keep additional data like "gawks at the nurse"
Lawyers who will be eventually tapped when information is leaked and lawsuits fly
Additional Help desk to answer "why the thing is so slow?"
Network/ System analyst to spend hours in the data centers figuring why the "network is slow"
A Business Consultant to tell you that you need a "faster network" to fix the "why the things is too slow" and they have a $10,000 router with $100 cat5e cables.
A Tech manager to manage the project and send out "well done emails"
A business manager to manage the tech managers and send out "well done and this will help productivity emails"
A CIO to oversee the project and go to the press discussing the new strategic approach to searching the database
Last but not least the only programmer to actually do the programming/maintenance/troubleshooting/documentation
QA is an excellent place to start as a programmer/developer etc. As one who has already made the switch, it is the QA which gives you the age. Though I do agree with the above post about code reviews and such. Try thinking from a QA perspective.
QA needs extensive scripting, just think of ways to handle your data. This translates into handling information when developing applications and user interfaces. If you are not handling data, generate some, benchmarks, measurments, response times etc, Automating reports is just one way to put you in the lead.
Second, QA people know how to look for problems, most programmers can follow specs, but how many can generate them? You deal with use cases, business processes. just work backwards how do you implement these.
QA people have extensive contacts, you talk to a lot of people, you know how to handle people, I on a personal level find it easier to deal with the program than with customers, most bosses really value the soft skills, that may in fact be why u will get in.
Automation is a very important part of QA, start from there and slowly expand your skill sets. QA has a lot of opportunities for one to develop ones programming skills, when you have them, just market them and you are on the way.
Anyways i think QA is a better career, its more ordered, the people are nicer(sometimes), deadlines are saner. And you get more free time.:P
Security is present at every company. As for checking bags,any company with products will have at least at one time or another faced theft. Management will have to implement security of some kind?
In any case, the better the product/the company the harder the life for employees. It is the employees' sacrifices that make a company what it is.
Work in Singapore and HK, you do more work, get less recognition , less pay and in many cases expected to put in extra time voluntarily without compensation.
I agree with barzok, Email retention is necessary because it gets you out of a pissing match when memories fade, no documentation is kept and items come up for contention. It also comes up good when you say i say the troll says. Email retention policy is now forever, just change the PST every quarter to prevent a corruption and slow opening of email.
Own a WRT54G, experienced wireless connection issues with it where the wireless clients couldnt contact the router. Just save the wireless setting via web config page while connected via cat 5. Seems to solve it.
Though of course if switching the power on and off seems to be faster...
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I agree with xaxa on his course of action. Just flood it down. The attention span of average searcher is kinda short. Just fill the search pages with something else, something more recent. Besides, you were not convicted, there are worse things to have done in life than abuse of computers. Things will always follow you, but it makes who you are, you life is tougher but so will you.You just gotta frame your mind the right way
I agree 150 users can be very little or a lot. Ran a few NT machines till 2004 with over 250 users on hardware i dont even recognize(honewell ball-less mouse 2 magnetic thingys) they worked just fine. Just threw away a farm for 50 users, had 1 server in the beginning but was seriously overloaded because once everyone heard of new hardware everybody poured in to use it. Damnation to single login policy. Understanding user behavior is more valuable than flipping through brochures. Usually 24 hour per second systat for 1 week should give u more than enough data
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Maybe im missing something here? Shouldn't all admins have signed an NDA specifically prohibiting him from releasing the passwords? He shouldn't even be talking about what servers they are. I had an NDA that ran on for 1 1/2 years after I left a certain Job. If he left the company/city tough luck its a management oversight.Its their job to go changing all the passwords even if its going rescue mode for each server. There are reasons why you dont have a top admin hold on to all the passwords. But the moment you fire him, your on your own.
QA is an excellent place to start as a programmer/developer etc. As one who has already made the switch, it is the QA which gives you the age. Though I do agree with the above post about code reviews and such. Try thinking from a QA perspective. QA needs extensive scripting, just think of ways to handle your data. This translates into handling information when developing applications and user interfaces. If you are not handling data, generate some, benchmarks, measurments, response times etc, Automating reports is just one way to put you in the lead. Second, QA people know how to look for problems, most programmers can follow specs, but how many can generate them? You deal with use cases, business processes. just work backwards how do you implement these. QA people have extensive contacts, you talk to a lot of people, you know how to handle people, I on a personal level find it easier to deal with the program than with customers, most bosses really value the soft skills, that may in fact be why u will get in. Automation is a very important part of QA, start from there and slowly expand your skill sets. QA has a lot of opportunities for one to develop ones programming skills, when you have them, just market them and you are on the way. Anyways i think QA is a better career, its more ordered, the people are nicer(sometimes), deadlines are saner. And you get more free time. :P
Just following up, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fixing+the+internet http://www.fixingtheinternet.org/how.php Interesting
Security is present at every company. As for checking bags,any company with products will have at least at one time or another faced theft. Management will have to implement security of some kind? In any case, the better the product/the company the harder the life for employees. It is the employees' sacrifices that make a company what it is. Work in Singapore and HK, you do more work, get less recognition , less pay and in many cases expected to put in extra time voluntarily without compensation.
I agree with barzok, Email retention is necessary because it gets you out of a pissing match when memories fade, no documentation is kept and items come up for contention. It also comes up good when you say i say the troll says. Email retention policy is now forever, just change the PST every quarter to prevent a corruption and slow opening of email.
Own a WRT54G, experienced wireless connection issues with it where the wireless clients couldnt contact the router. Just save the wireless setting via web config page while connected via cat 5. Seems to solve it. Though of course if switching the power on and off seems to be faster...