Theft and general damage is such a problem. Schools are really just full of numpties.
I had a friend who was a Dell contractor, and had to do a desktop install in a UK high school. Left the desktop in the hall, and came back 5 minutes later to find the system in bits, after being thrown down the stairs by some kids.
Next he gets attacked by some teacher (this guy is 35) telling him to clean it up. He just fucked her off, and walked off site on this one.
Yeah. Why anyone would want to work as a school admin I don't know. Once I left my high school they contracted me to keep their website up, and getting anything done is just a pain in the neck. In my current job, hardware takes time to get delivered, but try fighting the Education Depratment for 6 months to try and get permission to build a PHP content management system. In the end though, the beauty of this was that I got to build the system from scratch, and pretty much write the spec myself. Plus since I was writing code from home, and having the odd meeting with head-teachers, I didn't have to deal with smouldered hardware or mushed food.
Now that the website has become quite large, teachers have started uploading homework and videos to the site, for pupils to download. I'm now into the battle of trying to get a Gentoo box on site, to act as a mirror and take some of the bandwidth usage off the public hosting (50% of the site's traffic comes from IN school).
The English Dept managed to get a Mac network installed, but there's a dedicated switch for those machines, as they "could cause problems if added to the Windows network".
Yeah, GPS systems at the moment are far from perfect.
I've been using a TomTom GO 300 over the past few weeks for work (field engineer) to find offices and stuff. Lots of cities have one way systems which the GPS will try to take you up, the wrong way.
Things like concrete pillars, temporary roadworks, pedestrains (though it'd have some kind of radar system to deal with them) can't be programed into the car's GPS.
Sure, at the moment it's only motorways, but there are still hazards on big roads that don't get reported. I was driving up a dual carridge way behind a truck the other day. The truck pulled out into the fast lane, to miss a Taxi (fucking surprise, surprise) stopped with his hazards on in the middle of the slow lane. I had to break hard and swerve around him, thanking the stars that there was nobody to the right of me.
The navigation systems of today can't deal with that shit, I tell you!
Half Life 2 style lifts, similar to those near the end of the game.
Lifts that don't have doors, only massive force-fields which selectively allow users in and out. When the lift is in motion you can't fall out. As soon as the lift stops, the force-field deactivates in a fraction of a second.
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And Oceana has Always has been at War with Eurasia.
Tounge pierce. Very low key.
Lois, I find this meatloaf rather shallow and pedantic.
The distance was four miles. That's more like 34.3 miles an hour. Still, a pretty impressive foot speed.
$20 to back up "several thousand photos".
Have you no heart?
Theft and general damage is such a problem. Schools are really just full of numpties.
I had a friend who was a Dell contractor, and had to do a desktop install in a UK high school. Left the desktop in the hall, and came back 5 minutes later to find the system in bits, after being thrown down the stairs by some kids.
Next he gets attacked by some teacher (this guy is 35) telling him to clean it up. He just fucked her off, and walked off site on this one.
Yeah. Why anyone would want to work as a school admin I don't know. Once I left my high school they contracted me to keep their website up, and getting anything done is just a pain in the neck. In my current job, hardware takes time to get delivered, but try fighting the Education Depratment for 6 months to try and get permission to build a PHP content management system. In the end though, the beauty of this was that I got to build the system from scratch, and pretty much write the spec myself. Plus since I was writing code from home, and having the odd meeting with head-teachers, I didn't have to deal with smouldered hardware or mushed food.
Now that the website has become quite large, teachers have started uploading homework and videos to the site, for pupils to download. I'm now into the battle of trying to get a Gentoo box on site, to act as a mirror and take some of the bandwidth usage off the public hosting (50% of the site's traffic comes from IN school).
The English Dept managed to get a Mac network installed, but there's a dedicated switch for those machines, as they "could cause problems if added to the Windows network".
I'll see you in 6 another months.
Yeah, GPS systems at the moment are far from perfect.
I've been using a TomTom GO 300 over the past few weeks for work (field engineer) to find offices and stuff. Lots of cities have one way systems which the GPS will try to take you up, the wrong way.
Things like concrete pillars, temporary roadworks, pedestrains (though it'd have some kind of radar system to deal with them) can't be programed into the car's GPS.
Sure, at the moment it's only motorways, but there are still hazards on big roads that don't get reported. I was driving up a dual carridge way behind a truck the other day. The truck pulled out into the fast lane, to miss a Taxi (fucking surprise, surprise) stopped with his hazards on in the middle of the slow lane. I had to break hard and swerve around him, thanking the stars that there was nobody to the right of me.
The navigation systems of today can't deal with that shit, I tell you!
In Soviet Russia, oil refinery photographs YOU!
Half Life 2 style lifts, similar to those near the end of the game.
Lifts that don't have doors, only massive force-fields which selectively allow users in and out. When the lift is in motion you can't fall out. As soon as the lift stops, the force-field deactivates in a fraction of a second.
"These days, a lot of people leave their machines on 24/6" And on the seventh day Jobs rested and saw what he had made, and saw that it was good.
No, he sat down to watch the ladies, on his newly developed network of xxx spy cams xxx.