Hopefully the IT helpdesk are professionals. Who else in the company provides support for anything? Are they going to have uniforms as well?
Who is going to pay for these uniforms? The company?
Now lets do a little analysis. There are 6 employees who this will affect. There will be several styles. The word "several" is defined as: "being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind:" (dictionary.com). So lets assume that there will be 4 different styles. This means that there will not be a "common" uniform, which is the only thing that would "unify" the department and promote it's visibility.
This is different from technicians who go out and support customers in the field. This sounds like a really stupid idea.
Not much you can do now, in regards to your online presence.
If an employer asks, calmy explain that it was a youthful mistake. Emphasize that you have not done anything like that since, and that you have a clean record.
30 years of programming, for a variety of companies, tells me that.
When I have to look at someone else's code, it helps if, for example, each function has a set of comments which briefly describes what the function is, the parameters it is expecting, and what it is returning. Even if you wrote "self-documenting" code, it never documents itself enough.
Speaking of Perl, it is one of the worst languages for documentation. When I see it, I will either spend time figuring out what it is trying to do and document it, or not use it. I will not use code which I don't understand, because then I can't debug it. Comments help in that.
Also, sometimes comments will document a history of changes, and may explain why the code is doing something a certain way.
Absolutely the best! Whenever I install a new computer, I always download and run this. The author of the crappy article obviously didn't do any real research.
Many, many people in the OSS area deride RedHat for many reasons. I have never yet heard an argument against RedHat which made sense.
RedHat is the only vendor who puts their money where their mouth is. ALL of their software is opensource, as evidenced by the CentOS project, which makes the RedHat Enterprise system available for free under a different umbrella. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and while it is more current than RedHat, their software has (IMHO) more bugs than RedHat. I speak from experience, being both an RHCE and using Ubuntu at my job on a daily basis. I also had similar experiences with Mandake/Mandriva.
I don't see Canonicial, Mandriva, or any of the other commercial Linux vendors spending money to legally protect software which doesn't even belong to them!
RedHat stands head and shoulders far above all the other vendors.
You are spoiled. Those pictures were taken over 50 years ago. That is an extremely high resolution for the time.
Kudos to them, and I hope they get the rest of the pics
I'm 51, and have already done that route. I started programming back in 1972, on a teletype model 33 connected via dial-up modem to a computer several hundred miles away. I was continously employed for many years, until I took a job as Director of Technology at a small startup. I was there for 5 good years, during which the company grew from about $100,000 in sales to over $20 million in sales. The company was bought out, and 6 months later, after all the technology was integrated with the acquiring company, they let me go because I was redundant.
Since then, it's been a struggle because prospective employers see this job on my resume, and always wonder if I would not be satisified. I finally rewrote my resume, de-emphasizing the position, and now am waiting on a job offer at about 1/2 of my previous salary.
My advice is to get the CS degree, but to stay out of management, especially high level management.
Actually, I used to work for a large insurance company in the IT department. The CIO/CTO wanted people to be around for a few hours after 5. He set around a memo which stated that he walked the floor at 6PM and was very upset because no one was there. Normal hours for this job was 8-5, with an hour for lunch. Unfortunately, there were enough people who _did_ stay around to encourage him in his practices.
Ummmm, no. You should reread your history.
In Munich, terrorists took captive, and then killed, Israeli athletes who where there to participate. That wasn't disrespect, that was murder.
While these protests may, in your mind, "disrespect" the athletes, in no way are they similar because the athletes are not being harmed, molested, etc. These protests are against the host country, in Munich the attack was against a specific country's athletes.
Quoting from Wikipedia: "The Games were marred by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. On September 5 a group of eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September organization broke into the Olympic Village and took eleven Israeli athletes hostage in their apartment, killing two of the hostages in the apartment after fighting back; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours."
For more information, see the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
Slghtly off topic, I just renewed a domain on GoDaddy for a year. Other than being offered additional domains, I did not have to agree to a 60 day lockdown, just the terms of service. I read the TOS and didn't see anything about the 60 days. So it may be gone.
More than 74% of small businesses and home users do not do proper backups. Additionally, when they do do the backups, they usually don't verify them.
I have a client who has lost over $500,000 because the backup system put in place by a previous provider wasn't being verified, and when they needed it, it turned out that the tape drive had been bad for months, rendering ALL of their backup tapes bad
I base my comments on 30 years of experience. What do you base yours on?
I am not an OS zealot. I use what works, which is why I am using XP for my main desktop. I use Linux for my servers, and the Mac is only a learning experience.
You state that you "need to refresh your software library on almost a yearly basis"? On what do you base that on? It's been over two years since the Tiger (OS X 10.4) was released.
On my brand new Mac, I'm still using my XP applications that are years old. For example, I'm using Office 2003. Why should I upgrade to 2007 since it introduces incompatibilities with older versions of Office. I upgrade what I need, and will not upgrade simply because a big company says that I have to.
While I'm still learning the Mac OS, time and again I hear from people that once the small learning curve is over that the Mac is much easier to use. Also, it doesn't crash. XP doesn't crash that much these days, but it still isn't as stable as OS X.
Backwards compatibility? Vista? Those two don't belong in the same sentence. Almost every publisher had to modify their apps in order to make it work properly with Vista. Hardware manufacturers had to modify their drivers, and now, over a year after the Vista release, there are still enough problems with Vista that many people are still choosing XP instead of Vista.
I run Vista, XP, and now OS X. I'm waiting for my upgrade to arrive, and don't expect too many problems. I only have Vista because some of my customers have it (against my advice), and those customers tend to have more service calls than the others.
As usual, the poster got it wrong. It is not a "backdoor", and if the poster had actually read the response from PGP he would have realized that in order to use this, you already need to know the cryptographic passphrase, AND that it is only good for a single reboot.
This is required for remote administration. What are the chances that someone will be sitting by the computer, just waiting for it to reboot so they can steal the disk drive? Because that is essentially the only way for this to be exploited.
Hmmm. I used to order Dells for my last job, and they always came in either early or on time. I ordered a system a few weeks ago. The estimated ship date was 6/18, it was actually shipped the next day (6/4)
JBB
I had FIOS installed a month ago. Right now only internet is available, I'm just waiting for Verizon to get permission from the state to start offering TV.
I can't wait. Comcast thinks that they can do things with impunity, such as dropping channels, moving channels around, adding new service (and charging more), etc. The day after Verizon announces FIOS TV, I'm ordering it.
What arbitrary deadline? SCO has had YEARS to provide all the evidence they wanted to. They deliberitely waited until after discovery had ended before providing the so-called "expert evidence". The courts have bent over backwards trying to accomodate SCO, and all that happened was that SCO tried to take advantage of the court.
There are rules that everyone has to follow. SCO didn't follow those rules.
Well, instead of complaining about it, you have choices:
1. Instead of opening up additional tabs in a browser window, just open a new browser window for each app.
2. Use something else.
I don't like MS any more than you, but from what you are saying, you are a pirate. Windows is NOT open source, and does not have an open license. Like it or not, the license only allows you to install it on a single computer. Installing it on multiple computers is just plain wrong and illegal.
Title Insurance is required here in New Jersey, and I suspect most states. It insures the purchaser against exactly this kind of fraud, as well as any other kind of legitimate mistake in the title. In this case, the title insurance would pay the purchasers the purchase price of the house, and the house would revert to the original owners.
What lack of stability? You are confusing speed with stability. Your experience is that it is slow for the large files you are using. That doesn't mean it is not stable.
You have also chosen the slowest filesystem for journaling. And what HowTo' do you need? Use a standard distribution such as Mandriva, or another which supports other filesystems, and then watch the system speed up with the test you used.
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Hopefully the IT helpdesk are professionals. Who else in the company provides support for anything? Are they going to have uniforms as well?
Who is going to pay for these uniforms? The company?
Now lets do a little analysis. There are 6 employees who this will affect. There will be several styles. The word "several" is defined as: "being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind:" (dictionary.com).
So lets assume that there will be 4 different styles. This means that there will not be a "common" uniform, which is the only thing that would "unify" the department and promote it's visibility.
This is different from technicians who go out and support customers in the field. This sounds like a really stupid idea.
Not much you can do now, in regards to your online presence.
If an employer asks, calmy explain that it was a youthful mistake. Emphasize that you have not done anything like that since, and that you have a clean record.
Worst case: change your name.l
Sorry, you're wrong.
30 years of programming, for a variety of companies, tells me that.
When I have to look at someone else's code, it helps if, for example, each function has a set of comments which briefly describes what the function is, the parameters it is expecting, and what it is returning. Even if you wrote "self-documenting" code, it never documents itself enough.
Speaking of Perl, it is one of the worst languages for documentation. When I see it, I will either spend time figuring out what it is trying to do and document it, or not use it. I will not use code which I don't understand, because then I can't debug it. Comments help in that.
Also, sometimes comments will document a history of changes, and may explain why the code is doing something a certain way.
Absolutely the best! Whenever I install a new computer, I always download and run this. The author of the crappy article obviously didn't do any real research.
Forgot to mentiion, that if you have the URL you can get the "missing" pages at archive.org
Sounds like he wasn't liked at the company.
Many, many people in the OSS area deride RedHat for many reasons. I have never yet heard an argument against RedHat which made sense.
RedHat is the only vendor who puts their money where their mouth is. ALL of their software is opensource, as evidenced by the CentOS project, which makes the RedHat Enterprise system available for free under a different umbrella. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and while it is more current than RedHat, their software has (IMHO) more bugs than RedHat. I speak from experience, being both an RHCE and using Ubuntu at my job on a daily basis. I also had similar experiences with Mandake/Mandriva.
I don't see Canonicial, Mandriva, or any of the other commercial Linux vendors spending money to legally protect software which doesn't even belong to them!
RedHat stands head and shoulders far above all the other vendors.
You are spoiled. Those pictures were taken over 50 years ago. That is an extremely high resolution for the time. Kudos to them, and I hope they get the rest of the pics
I'm 51, and have already done that route. I started programming back in 1972, on a teletype model 33 connected via dial-up modem to a computer several hundred miles away. I was continously employed for many years, until I took a job as Director of Technology at a small startup. I was there for 5 good years, during which the company grew from about $100,000 in sales to over $20 million in sales. The company was bought out, and 6 months later, after all the technology was integrated with the acquiring company, they let me go because I was redundant.
Since then, it's been a struggle because prospective employers see this job on my resume, and always wonder if I would not be satisified. I finally rewrote my resume, de-emphasizing the position, and now am waiting on a job offer at about 1/2 of my previous salary.
My advice is to get the CS degree, but to stay out of management, especially high level management.
Have you ever heard of Bollywood? They are the India version of Hollywood, and produce over 1000 movies a year.
Actually, I used to work for a large insurance company in the IT department. The CIO/CTO wanted people to be around for a few hours after 5. He set around a memo which stated that he walked the floor at 6PM and was very upset because no one was there. Normal hours for this job was 8-5, with an hour for lunch. Unfortunately, there were enough people who _did_ stay around to encourage him in his practices.
Ummmm, no. You should reread your history. In Munich, terrorists took captive, and then killed, Israeli athletes who where there to participate. That wasn't disrespect, that was murder. While these protests may, in your mind, "disrespect" the athletes, in no way are they similar because the athletes are not being harmed, molested, etc. These protests are against the host country, in Munich the attack was against a specific country's athletes. Quoting from Wikipedia: "The Games were marred by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. On September 5 a group of eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September organization broke into the Olympic Village and took eleven Israeli athletes hostage in their apartment, killing two of the hostages in the apartment after fighting back; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours." For more information, see the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
Slghtly off topic, I just renewed a domain on GoDaddy for a year. Other than being offered additional domains, I did not have to agree to a 60 day lockdown, just the terms of service. I read the TOS and didn't see anything about the 60 days. So it may be gone.
More than 74% of small businesses and home users do not do proper backups. Additionally, when they do do the backups, they usually don't verify them.
I have a client who has lost over $500,000 because the backup system put in place by a previous provider wasn't being verified, and when they needed it, it turned out that the tape drive had been bad for months, rendering ALL of their backup tapes bad
I base my comments on 30 years of experience. What do you base yours on? I am not an OS zealot. I use what works, which is why I am using XP for my main desktop. I use Linux for my servers, and the Mac is only a learning experience. You state that you "need to refresh your software library on almost a yearly basis"? On what do you base that on? It's been over two years since the Tiger (OS X 10.4) was released. On my brand new Mac, I'm still using my XP applications that are years old. For example, I'm using Office 2003. Why should I upgrade to 2007 since it introduces incompatibilities with older versions of Office. I upgrade what I need, and will not upgrade simply because a big company says that I have to. While I'm still learning the Mac OS, time and again I hear from people that once the small learning curve is over that the Mac is much easier to use. Also, it doesn't crash. XP doesn't crash that much these days, but it still isn't as stable as OS X.
Backwards compatibility? Vista? Those two don't belong in the same sentence. Almost every publisher had to modify their apps in order to make it work properly with Vista. Hardware manufacturers had to modify their drivers, and now, over a year after the Vista release, there are still enough problems with Vista that many people are still choosing XP instead of Vista.
I run Vista, XP, and now OS X. I'm waiting for my upgrade to arrive, and don't expect too many problems. I only have Vista because some of my customers have it (against my advice), and those customers tend to have more service calls than the others.
As usual, the poster got it wrong. It is not a "backdoor", and if the poster had actually read the response from PGP he would have realized that in order to use this, you already need to know the cryptographic passphrase, AND that it is only good for a single reboot. This is required for remote administration. What are the chances that someone will be sitting by the computer, just waiting for it to reboot so they can steal the disk drive? Because that is essentially the only way for this to be exploited.
Hmmm. I used to order Dells for my last job, and they always came in either early or on time. I ordered a system a few weeks ago. The estimated ship date was 6/18, it was actually shipped the next day (6/4) JBB
Ummm, you didn't read the article. They specifically said that by assigning 2 gig to the VM that the linux based system actually had more memory.
I had FIOS installed a month ago. Right now only internet is available, I'm just waiting for Verizon to get permission from the state to start offering TV. I can't wait. Comcast thinks that they can do things with impunity, such as dropping channels, moving channels around, adding new service (and charging more), etc. The day after Verizon announces FIOS TV, I'm ordering it.
What arbitrary deadline? SCO has had YEARS to provide all the evidence they wanted to. They deliberitely waited until after discovery had ended before providing the so-called "expert evidence". The courts have bent over backwards trying to accomodate SCO, and all that happened was that SCO tried to take advantage of the court. There are rules that everyone has to follow. SCO didn't follow those rules.
Well, instead of complaining about it, you have choices: 1. Instead of opening up additional tabs in a browser window, just open a new browser window for each app. 2. Use something else.
I don't like MS any more than you, but from what you are saying, you are a pirate. Windows is NOT open source, and does not have an open license. Like it or not, the license only allows you to install it on a single computer. Installing it on multiple computers is just plain wrong and illegal.
Title Insurance is required here in New Jersey, and I suspect most states. It insures the purchaser against exactly this kind of fraud, as well as any other kind of legitimate mistake in the title. In this case, the title insurance would pay the purchasers the purchase price of the house, and the house would revert to the original owners.
What lack of stability? You are confusing speed with stability. Your experience is that it is slow for the large files you are using. That doesn't mean it is not stable.
You have also chosen the slowest filesystem for journaling. And what HowTo' do you need? Use a standard distribution such as Mandriva, or another which supports other filesystems, and then watch the system speed up with the test you used.