Apart from the obvious...'omg! you mean salespeople lie'...I'm worried about what a bunch of privacy freaks we're becomimg.
C'mon folks...
Who do you think is listening in on your conversations about "bring home milk" or "Man, that new chick in accounts has a great rack"?
Latest scores in....
Fear and paranoia 1 / Get a grip 0
I got all nostalgic a little while back, so I did a little googling and found all 3 BT games available for C64 emulator.:)
A hell of a lot of fun, even after so many years.
I also managed to find a rom of the original "Wasteland", one of my favourite games ever!
Horible old graphics, but still a great game with a great plot.
Seriously...BFD! and is hardly audible from more than a meter away...
Well, unless you have some sweet wireless KB and mouse thing going on, or some really loooong cables, you kinda have to sit within a metre of your rig. So I guess "barely audible" from long range still means "bloody noisy" at regular range
And as this is for a gaming rig...whats the big deal? Spend $50 and get your self a nice set of headphones! No ambient noise issues there! Some future hearing issues maybe...but what cost is immersion worth anyway:-P
I can understand the need for a quiet media centre setup, but when Im going to be bombarded by gunfire, sexy alien chit chat or pyro-spell-casting type noises...I just cant see the point.
lets pull this little ditty to bits... "The IT department at my company (approximately some 500 people) is showing signs of incompetence, and has been ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year.
Hmmm...well lets get to that 'incompetence' thing a little later.
But as for "ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year"...lemme see, you've been harping on about something for a year to the IT department? Well, what is "knowledgeable user input" anyway? "At my old company we used to..." or "my friend who is an IT genius says..."
Seriously, if you have a suggestion, detail it and submit it to the IT manager and cc it to your manager.
Berating some poor schmuck when he comes to help you format a word doc is not an effective change management strategy!
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
LMAO...but somehow you and your band of IT-vigilantes is going to change the world? Good luck!
So IT ARE going to management with suggestions, but are getting knocked back?
So somehow you equate managements lack of willingness to resource your IT department to be a failure of the IT guys lack of bargaining skills...not a boneheaded lack of foresight on behalf of your management team?
Wow...tough crowd...
Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line, and those on top are starting to notice.
GOOD! Now "those on top" need to find the money they should spent on protecting their investment in the first place.
You do realise that IT guys dont just down servers for no reason, dont you? You probably do...or you think they do it on purpose just to piss you off.
And while you're sitting around moaning about how long it's taking for you to be able to get back onto/. because of server downtime, they're running around like headless chooks trying to patch up an obviously ailing (underfunded?) system. From your comments so far, I'm assuming you are not one of the "knowledgeable user's" you mentioned before.
We users are staging a revolt to make IT more responsive to users by creating a group from the company divisions and IT to discuss needs and solutions.
Yeah, you go girl!
Nice of you to harass IT some more. After all they have nothing better to do than sit in on your moanapolooza. Why not form your little revolt and march on the guys that will have to OK and pay for your demands...oh wait, lemme guess...'cause if you did you'd get your ass fired!
Face it, you dont want a solution or you would go to the people who can effect change. You want to vent. Well, you have...does that feel better?
What would you put in our charter? What services and responsibilities would you demand out of your IT department?
Well, first up...I'd want suitably qualified and trained professionals in charge of the decision making process.
And as your "knowledgeable user's" are neither...I'd demand that they get trained or STFU.
Then I'd demand that the reasons for management knocking back IT requests be made public.
Im hoping the moment management have to front staff and explain why there will be "no increase in storage" or "no funds for disaster recovery" will be one of those life changing events for you...when you realise IT budgets have to be approved or people (like you) wont get what they want, so that you then take the fight to those with the money and leave your nerds to get on with keeping your sad little network up and running.
If you really want to help your IT department effect a postive change, quit harrasing them and take your fight to the people at the top who are ultimately responsible.
Find the guys that sign's off on the IT budget and ask them why server space hasn't increased to meet demand.
Because the answer is either your IT department is siphoning off $$$ to day-trade with, or there was nothing budgeted to allow for it.
...seems to be played under the same rules as regular big business.
Although, from reading TFA, one might suspect that this sort of thing was only happening in the middle east or europe.
We might need to look a closer to home too, but I suspect TFA is doing it's best to suggest otherwise.
If it's going to cost you a call, then just ring home and say "hey baby, hit record for me...and put some beer in the fridge and then get naked!" ...or something like that...
Quote: "How much is your staff's time worth to you?"
This is exactly the reason ones should assist/enforce low quotas for email users.
How much time is wasted searching through multi-Gb email files looking for something a user only has a vague recollection about?
Maybe they remember the name of the sender, or something from the subject....if they're lucky.
It's not about 'doing it on the cheap' at all, this is about resource management.
If you let users treat email (or network space e.g.) as a 'bottomless pit' they can endlessly toss data into, it will come back and bite you on the ass.
Quote: "Worse yet, so-called Sarbanes-Oxley experts are running around telling everyone that they need to save all email, forever."
Depending on what business you are in, this is not unreasonable.
e.g Meat export trade? 20years. As required under US, UK and Australian law...probably others too...
Architectural? Hmmm, how long do you think the building will last? If it falls down after 50 years because of something the developer asked you to do, you better be able to produce that email in court...
We're Notes users, with tight (warning @ 50mb, cut off at 70mb) quota's.
As an architectural firm, our user receive a lot of large email attachments, but we find this limit to work great.
The idea is to 'encourage' users to process their mail, file (complete with attachments) it to an email repository specific to the project the mail relates to, and delete it from their mail files.
This has a number of benefits.
* Because the limit is so small, users never get to that 'Im so overwhelemed, I cant possibly begin to sort out 1Gb of email' freak-out...where nothing ever gets resolved and things just get worse.
* As people work in teams, all mail relating to a project should be viewable to all team members. This way, if they are accidently left off a CC list and the scope of the job changes, they are still in the loop.
* Our email repositories are managed so that mail saved there cannot be deleted by anyone without admin priv's. No more angry employees deleting all the records after a bad review...or even by accident.
Incomming and outgoing maximum size limits are set to 10mb, once again very low.
This is to encourage the use of Extranets (think FTP with pretty graphics) for transfering large files. Outside consultants recieve an email telling them the new content has been posted to the extranet so they can download at will.
I've been in companies with multi-Gb email users, and know how difficult they can be to deal with.
"BUT I NEED IT ALL. IT'S REALLLLY IMPORTANT"...uh...yeah...sure....
I've always found their biggest issue with culling their mail is simply overload. They just dont know where to start.
"Sure, HD space is cheap these days, just throw another TB at it, it'll be ok"....but there's more to the issue.
How do you expect a user to easily find data in 2Gb+ mail file, when they might be lucky to remember the sender, or the subject...if anything at all?!
"Help! I need to find a mail from some guy about something from last year...in 5 minutes for a meeting"
And never forget, that since they cant find the data they need in the email system...it's YOUR fault.
There's more to being an IT manager than just IT. If you're at that place where you're saying to yourself "I think I might need to start managing this situation before it all goes pear shaped" then it's time to start doing it.
Because things are only going to get worse.
LMAO.
Wow, I think...you...are...me!
This was also my dad's way of making me 'learn' basic.
Gotta admit though, I did enjoy sitting there taking 'shifts' typing in pages of basic code with the old man.
And then enjoyed playing the games with him after too....well, once we waited a month for the next magazine to come out with the corrections to the code for the game we spent hours typing in and going over and over and over...
I tried this with my daughter a while ago, after I found an old C64 for sale.
She's back on the PS2.
I'm still trying to master sprite collision...
And a Massive W00T to that!
Damn, Im 35 now.
Haircut, real job...
That means I can now afford to have a sweet set of guitars and pay for some online game time through a fat internet connection.
And now, my kids can jump on their laptops (and usually the couch in my study) and fire up Anarchy Online...and we can go pwn some mobs together, eat to much junk food and generally have a fat old time:)
And I wouldnt have it any other way!
Why oh why oh why do people want to have "iPod/mp3 home stereo's"?
Seriously, the quality of most 'rips' is shocking.
And one you plug your iPod into a decent sized set of speakers...you just end up with loud crappy quality music.
And whats worse, you pay to download tunes in an inferior quality format!
Anyway...there is already a iPod killer on the market.
It's called a phone.
Unless you want to carry a phone, mp3 player, portable TV, PIM,....
NASA are ALSO pretty glad I dont write their press releases:)
Me? I have nothing against space exploration. Hey, sounds great to me.
What I do have a issue with is this ridiculous trotting out of outdated and proven dangerous hardware, costing billions of dollars to do some halfassed experiments.
Science isnt being served by testing lima beans in space.
All that is happening is a few companies are getting great steaming wads of taxpayer funding, whilst kids struggle with literacy.
Go into space? Fine.
But make it a comercial venture.
If companies rely on data gathered during misions, or really need Hubble fixed...let them pay for it.
But unless someone has a good explanation why the US government needs to know what happens to Australian spiders in Zero G...
then I cant possibly see the value in the billions this program costs.
The shuttle was past it's use by date before it even got off the ground.
And the only reason to still be using it...is that there is no other choice.
Seriously, I was told I'd be driving around 'Jetsons Style' by now!
Yet here we are still stuck using this craptastic old dinosaur, to carry out rooooly important projects...like testing the effect of zero G on spiders.
Yeah. Like spiders are ever going to be able to fund their own space program.
Still, I suppose this keeps a bunch of sad old nerds in work, so there is something to be said for NASA.
I hate spyware as much as the next nerd, but banning spammers from competition?
Man, tough crowd!
Whats next?
"The athlete from France was stripped of his gold medal today, when it was discovered he had purchased W.O.W Gold from Ebay, and kill-stealed XP and phatz from a bunch of lowbie Anarchy Online n00b's"
"When asked to comment, he said "oMGz !!11!11oneone!eleven!11"
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Hmmm...is that like attempted murder? Or Soliciting? You haven't killed or slept with anyone, so what crime has been committed really?
Apart from the obvious...'omg! you mean salespeople lie'...I'm worried about what a bunch of privacy freaks we're becomimg. C'mon folks... Who do you think is listening in on your conversations about "bring home milk" or "Man, that new chick in accounts has a great rack"? Latest scores in.... Fear and paranoia 1 / Get a grip 0
I for one welcome our giant radioactive animal overlords...
I got all nostalgic a little while back, so I did a little googling and found all 3 BT games available for C64 emulator. :)
A hell of a lot of fun, even after so many years.
I also managed to find a rom of the original "Wasteland", one of my favourite games ever!
Horible old graphics, but still a great game with a great plot.
Seriously...BFD! :-P
and is hardly audible from more than a meter away...
Well, unless you have some sweet wireless KB and mouse thing going on, or some really loooong cables, you kinda have to sit within a metre of your rig. So I guess "barely audible" from long range still means "bloody noisy" at regular range
And as this is for a gaming rig...whats the big deal? Spend $50 and get your self a nice set of headphones!
No ambient noise issues there! Some future hearing issues maybe...but what cost is immersion worth anyway
I can understand the need for a quiet media centre setup, but when Im going to be bombarded by gunfire, sexy alien chit chat or pyro-spell-casting type noises...I just cant see the point.
lets pull this little ditty to bits...
/. because of server downtime, they're running around like headless chooks trying to patch up an obviously ailing (underfunded?) system.
"The IT department at my company (approximately some 500 people) is showing signs of incompetence, and has been ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year.
Hmmm...well lets get to that 'incompetence' thing a little later.
But as for "ignoring knowledgeable user input for about a year"...lemme see, you've been harping on about something for a year to the IT department?
Well, what is "knowledgeable user input" anyway? "At my old company we used to..." or "my friend who is an IT genius says..."
Seriously, if you have a suggestion, detail it and submit it to the IT manager and cc it to your manager.
Berating some poor schmuck when he comes to help you format a word doc is not an effective change management strategy!
Additionally, they haven't been able to sell needed changes to senior management.
LMAO...but somehow you and your band of IT-vigilantes is going to change the world? Good luck!
So IT ARE going to management with suggestions, but are getting knocked back?
So somehow you equate managements lack of willingness to resource your IT department to be a failure of the IT guys lack of bargaining skills...not a boneheaded lack of foresight on behalf of your management team?
Wow...tough crowd...
Unacceptable server down time, maxed network storage, and no backups systems have hit the bottom line, and those on top are starting to notice.
GOOD! Now "those on top" need to find the money they should spent on protecting their investment in the first place.
You do realise that IT guys dont just down servers for no reason, dont you? You probably do...or you think they do it on purpose just to piss you off.
And while you're sitting around moaning about how long it's taking for you to be able to get back onto
From your comments so far, I'm assuming you are not one of the "knowledgeable user's" you mentioned before.
We users are staging a revolt to make IT more responsive to users by creating a group from the company divisions and IT to discuss needs and solutions.
Yeah, you go girl!
Nice of you to harass IT some more. After all they have nothing better to do than sit in on your moanapolooza.
Why not form your little revolt and march on the guys that will have to OK and pay for your demands...oh wait, lemme guess...'cause if you did you'd get your ass fired!
Face it, you dont want a solution or you would go to the people who can effect change. You want to vent. Well, you have...does that feel better?
What would you put in our charter? What services and responsibilities would you demand out of your IT department?
Well, first up...I'd want suitably qualified and trained professionals in charge of the decision making process.
And as your "knowledgeable user's" are neither...I'd demand that they get trained or STFU.
Then I'd demand that the reasons for management knocking back IT requests be made public.
Im hoping the moment management have to front staff and explain why there will be "no increase in storage" or "no funds for disaster recovery" will be one of those life changing events for you...when you realise IT budgets have to be approved or people (like you) wont get what they want, so that you then take the fight to those with the money and leave your nerds to get on with keeping your sad little network up and running.
If you really want to help your IT department effect a postive change, quit harrasing them and take your fight to the people at the top who are ultimately responsible.
Find the guys that sign's off on the IT budget and ask them why server space hasn't increased to meet demand.
Because the answer is either your IT department is siphoning off $$$ to day-trade with, or there was nothing budgeted to allow for it.
...seems to be played under the same rules as regular big business.
Although, from reading TFA, one might suspect that this sort of thing was only happening in the middle east or europe.
We might need to look a closer to home too, but I suspect TFA is doing it's best to suggest otherwise.
If it's going to cost you a call, then just ring home and say "hey baby, hit record for me...and put some beer in the fridge and then get naked!"
...or something like that...
Quote: "How much is your staff's time worth to you?" This is exactly the reason ones should assist/enforce low quotas for email users. How much time is wasted searching through multi-Gb email files looking for something a user only has a vague recollection about? Maybe they remember the name of the sender, or something from the subject....if they're lucky.
It's not about 'doing it on the cheap' at all, this is about resource management.
If you let users treat email (or network space e.g.) as a 'bottomless pit' they can endlessly toss data into, it will come back and bite you on the ass.
Quote: "Worse yet, so-called Sarbanes-Oxley experts are running around telling everyone that they need to save all email, forever."
Depending on what business you are in, this is not unreasonable. e.g Meat export trade? 20years. As required under US, UK and Australian law...probably others too...
Architectural? Hmmm, how long do you think the building will last? If it falls down after 50 years because of something the developer asked you to do, you better be able to produce that email in court...
We're Notes users, with tight (warning @ 50mb, cut off at 70mb) quota's. As an architectural firm, our user receive a lot of large email attachments, but we find this limit to work great.
The idea is to 'encourage' users to process their mail, file (complete with attachments) it to an email repository specific to the project the mail relates to, and delete it from their mail files.
This has a number of benefits.
* Because the limit is so small, users never get to that 'Im so overwhelemed, I cant possibly begin to sort out 1Gb of email' freak-out...where nothing ever gets resolved and things just get worse.
* As people work in teams, all mail relating to a project should be viewable to all team members. This way, if they are accidently left off a CC list and the scope of the job changes, they are still in the loop.
* Our email repositories are managed so that mail saved there cannot be deleted by anyone without admin priv's. No more angry employees deleting all the records after a bad review...or even by accident.
Incomming and outgoing maximum size limits are set to 10mb, once again very low.
This is to encourage the use of Extranets (think FTP with pretty graphics) for transfering large files. Outside consultants recieve an email telling them the new content has been posted to the extranet so they can download at will.
I've been in companies with multi-Gb email users, and know how difficult they can be to deal with.
"BUT I NEED IT ALL. IT'S REALLLLY IMPORTANT"...uh...yeah...sure....
I've always found their biggest issue with culling their mail is simply overload. They just dont know where to start.
"Sure, HD space is cheap these days, just throw another TB at it, it'll be ok"....but there's more to the issue.
How do you expect a user to easily find data in 2Gb+ mail file, when they might be lucky to remember the sender, or the subject...if anything at all?!
"Help! I need to find a mail from some guy about something from last year...in 5 minutes for a meeting"
And never forget, that since they cant find the data they need in the email system...it's YOUR fault.
There's more to being an IT manager than just IT. If you're at that place where you're saying to yourself "I think I might need to start managing this situation before it all goes pear shaped" then it's time to start doing it.
Because things are only going to get worse.
LMAO. Wow, I think...you...are...me! This was also my dad's way of making me 'learn' basic. Gotta admit though, I did enjoy sitting there taking 'shifts' typing in pages of basic code with the old man. And then enjoyed playing the games with him after too. ...well, once we waited a month for the next magazine to come out with the corrections to the code for the game we spent hours typing in and going over and over and over...
I tried this with my daughter a while ago, after I found an old C64 for sale.
She's back on the PS2.
I'm still trying to master sprite collision...
And a Massive W00T to that! Damn, Im 35 now. Haircut, real job... That means I can now afford to have a sweet set of guitars and pay for some online game time through a fat internet connection. And now, my kids can jump on their laptops (and usually the couch in my study) and fire up Anarchy Online...and we can go pwn some mobs together, eat to much junk food and generally have a fat old time :)
And I wouldnt have it any other way!
Why oh why oh why do people want to have "iPod/mp3 home stereo's"? Seriously, the quality of most 'rips' is shocking. And one you plug your iPod into a decent sized set of speakers...you just end up with loud crappy quality music. And whats worse, you pay to download tunes in an inferior quality format! Anyway...there is already a iPod killer on the market. It's called a phone. Unless you want to carry a phone, mp3 player, portable TV, PIM,....
LOL Makes you wonder if NASA was setup/continues to be a method for stopping sad old nerds from doing exactly that.
NASA are ALSO pretty glad I dont write their press releases :)
Me? I have nothing against space exploration. Hey, sounds great to me.
What I do have a issue with is this ridiculous trotting out of outdated and proven dangerous hardware, costing billions of dollars to do some halfassed experiments.
Science isnt being served by testing lima beans in space.
All that is happening is a few companies are getting great steaming wads of taxpayer funding, whilst kids struggle with literacy.
Go into space? Fine.
But make it a comercial venture.
If companies rely on data gathered during misions, or really need Hubble fixed...let them pay for it.
But unless someone has a good explanation why the US government needs to know what happens to Australian spiders in Zero G...
then I cant possibly see the value in the billions this program costs.
The shuttle was past it's use by date before it even got off the ground. And the only reason to still be using it...is that there is no other choice. Seriously, I was told I'd be driving around 'Jetsons Style' by now! Yet here we are still stuck using this craptastic old dinosaur, to carry out rooooly important projects...like testing the effect of zero G on spiders. Yeah. Like spiders are ever going to be able to fund their own space program. Still, I suppose this keeps a bunch of sad old nerds in work, so there is something to be said for NASA.
I hate spyware as much as the next nerd, but banning spammers from competition? Man, tough crowd! Whats next? "The athlete from France was stripped of his gold medal today, when it was discovered he had purchased W.O.W Gold from Ebay, and kill-stealed XP and phatz from a bunch of lowbie Anarchy Online n00b's" "When asked to comment, he said "oMGz !!11!11oneone!eleven!11"