I had been using MBP's but like article wanted something upgradeable. I had ThinkPads in past so got a T530 and so far Linux is fine on it. Just wish I could find a video driver that I could lower the resolution most don't fill the screen when resolution is dropped. I looked at the System76 and interesting, but expensive compared to others. Hope the Levnovo holds up like my IBM ThinkPad did it was a tank.
One place I was at we were doing 24/7 support so someone had to always be onsite. For holidays our boss just split the day into 3 hour shifts starting at 6am. For only having to work 3 hours wasn't too painful still got most of the day with family/friends. Boss also said it will be dead bring DVDs to watch, just answer phone if it rings. So pretty painless Holiday work.
We did something similar we got to portable drives that can connect to internet. They have a minimal Linux that we could term into, we then setup a rsync to pull the files from the servers. So no matter where the drives were plugged in if they could get to the internet they could get to our server and rsync files. So three of the company exec's took a drive home so we had multiple backups of key files.
When I worked for Borland we used to joke that we were Microsoft's training site, because so many employees were either recruited away or just plain left for MS.
Even the non-compete's don't work because MS have so many types of projects they can put you on something different till your non-compete expires.
I discovered them years ago and bought from them both for myself, but also companies I worked for. Their customer service was great. All the best with the store front.
The mega corporations are buying up or pushing out of business all the small businesses. I recently sold by house and moved and in process used a lot of local businesses. Talking with them most were saying they will probably be gone in 3-4 years. The big corporations are cutting deals with cash strapped cites for major concessions that are driving the little guys out with extra fees, permits, and licenses.
I work in a Agile shop, but lucky for me in DevOps. All the SCRUMs, Code Sprints, developer trying to play QA is just a way to be cheap and to the "Suits" with OCD be controlling. The last big product rollout they got all their constants to come in and create code sprints and try to whip everyone up. A week in all the developers were ticked off and burnt and told the "suits" can hit the targets with all time wasted on writing test cases and not code. So the drop the Agile crap and got the rollout done. Think the "suits" would learn, no development is back to Agile suckage. Where I'm at Agile is all about control and trying to make 60 seconds of every minute work.
When people stick to the idea, previous days targets, any issues, todays targets, and move on. It fine, but when others start whining or manager wantabee start say "don't be so negative..." it turns to be a pain.
At another place I worked we had morning meeting (sit down) with all who were at work. Meeting was set a one hour max. Manger made any annoucements and floor open to issues and questions, very informal. Those ended up being good meetings very informative and some morning only 15 minutes long.
One of the companies I worked for the legal department had to come to our dev team meeting. Some guy had been sending copies of his software to our developers. We had a new version of an add-on product coming out. He also made add-ons and knew was guessing the direction we were going and probably many aspects would be the same.
What our legal department said was if our programmer's have never seen the other guys program they are "clean" programmers and no copyright violation if similar things show up. If our programmers had seen or been show the other guys program then wrote similar thing they are "dirty" programmer and what they do would be copyright violation. So legal dept collected all the still sealed copies and held them then ripped the other guy a new one.
Now what is really strange is legal said if marketing sees the other guys product and then describes a feature to a programmer the programmer is still considered a "clean" programmer. Geez no wonder there is no consistency in legal decisions.
I got into computers in the Apple II days, the first mouse I touched was on a Apple Lisa the forefather of the Mac. I worked for Mac software companies and Apple partners. So I have been around Apple and watched them a long time. I was never a Apple cult person because dealing with and watching their business practices they could be jerks. Apple was a company that tried to compete via innovation, but over the past few years their switch to litigation before innovation makes me sick.
Apple get back to R&D and Marketing and push the Legal department into the background where it belongs.
The Amazon's and other large companies can afford the extra development and work to collect taxes at all the various rates and get it to the states. States have been pushing for this a long time and well eventually get it. The will be a burdon on the small internet businesses and cut into the slim margins they have to compete with the large companies.
What I would rather see is a ban on states collecting internet sales taxes, and a Federal internet sales tax. Not that I want to pay more, but have a single federal tax would make collection and payment for businesses of all sizes simpler. Then the Fed's could take the collected taxes and comes with some way to divide it up between all the states.
i remember at one place I worked I loved my keyboard , but it eventually became so grimy they forced me to throw it away and get a new one. Hey I was only one who used it!!!!
My last job I did a lot of ProTools editing on computers shared by all the audio team. We kept hand sanitizer next to the computer, but it still would get grimy. When I got bad I would just disconnect the KB and get some q-tips, tissues, and denatured alcohol. KB would clean up real nice and the alcohol evaporates fast so even if I get some inside no damage.
At home I'll clean my keyboard now and then if it gets bad, but like others said "what doesn't kill you makes you strong" and keeps others off my computer.
Cheap CFO's who saving a dime it highest importance in all decisions. We only have one (officially) Win7 box because a high priority app requires it. Servers and OS X same all old versions. Running XP works since the hardware is Jurassic too.
I have a couple Linux dev boxes because they were so anemic even XP didn't like them.
People at places I've work think of their work computers like their home computers and spend a lot of time on personal email, surfing net, chatting and other non-work computing. Some places I've worked address this restricting what can be loaded and content monitoring. That helps but people find way to waste time on non-work (and bitch they have to stay late to get work done.)
Then I've been places and gone toe-to-toe with management over all the non-work activity and typically non-work software installed. Management starts justifying it saying people work had "they deserve their diversions". They only time management will complain is when the network start slowing down or I tell them I need more storage. Then they slap employees on the wrist and the cycle start anew.
So I can fully understand the youth of today who live their lives on social media getting a tablet and doing everything but school work. Tablets and other devices will only be a distraction unless they are restricted to education related app's and tools.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons - Buckminster Fuller
I telecommuted for awhile and it was a weird experience. I worked for the company on-site for years then telecommute for a year or so. You don't realize how much you learn from hallway meetings and just being around your co-workers. When out of sight people forget to even CC you on email. Most info I got late and from meeting notes emailed to me. What was strange my boss had my workstation in the floor next to my desk and I remote'd into it. When I would talk to him he knew what I was up to because he would see my monitor. So out of site does mean out of mind for telecommuting.
On personal note work and my life became one. My computer room and bedroom were same room so I pretty much worked around the clock. The only time I wasn't working was when I would go out to eat. Work benefited, but it got to me eventually.
These days I prefer working from home a day or two a week and on-site the rest of the time. That is most productive to me.
I was a huge WordPerfect DOS fan it was the best wordprocessor and interface was most intuitive I've ever seen. Then they tried to make a Mac version SUCKED horriblily and if I remember they killed the product and restarted and killed again. Then they tried to do a Windows version and it was so-so at best and it died a slow death. Their problem wasn't MS it was they never successfully make the transition from a DOS text to GUI platform.
Maybe they should sue Apple too for their problems.
It's the same with reading music you learn to recognized common rhythmic patterns, same with chords voicings. Reading same thing you look at these simple words and just know them from a glance, you don't thing the letters and put it together. Even unfamiliar words you look for letter patterns first and piece together the words.
I worked at Borland back around then and Ander et al just lived and breathed assembly language. I remember going to one of Ander's demo's and he's setting up the computer and projector. Something didn't seem right to him. Next thing he's running debug staring at a hex dump, pokes in some hex, and saves.
Any device without a keyboard you're going to swipe something to do everything include unlock function. I used to be fairly pro-patient (I just thought they lasted too long), but BS like this is moving me anti-patient.
This is stupid its like Ford saying I want to nuke Chevy because Chevy makes cars too. Competition spurs innovation and customers benefit. iPhone is not only cellphone to do what it does or even have a similar look and feel, it one competitor in market called Smartphones. Also at blame is patent office for giving patents on generic ideas, patents should be for a specific things and have short duration.
Cell phones have been constantly evolving since they first hit the market and have created a HUGE marketplace that attracted many companies including Apple. That has benefited the economy and created jobs. Apple/Steve Jobs wants to stifle that free market composition. Jobs should remember how he screwed Next computer by trying to limit what companies would write software for it. Same type of BS.
Fibre cables are pretty new for rats to be attracted to. They are a problem for some old cables because animal fat was used in the insulation. They smell the animal fat and chow down.
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I had been using MBP's but like article wanted something upgradeable. I had ThinkPads in past so got a T530 and so far Linux is fine on it. Just wish I could find a video driver that I could lower the resolution most don't fill the screen when resolution is dropped. I looked at the System76 and interesting, but expensive compared to others. Hope the Levnovo holds up like my IBM ThinkPad did it was a tank.
One place I was at we were doing 24/7 support so someone had to always be onsite. For holidays our boss just split the day into 3 hour shifts starting at 6am. For only having to work 3 hours wasn't too painful still got most of the day with family/friends. Boss also said it will be dead bring DVDs to watch, just answer phone if it rings. So pretty painless Holiday work.
I thought I heard Japan has something like this in place???
Sure need it, if a Executive wants more money then help the company do better so whole companies slice grows.
We did something similar we got to portable drives that can connect to internet. They have a minimal Linux that we could term into, we then setup a rsync to pull the files from the servers. So no matter where the drives were plugged in if they could get to the internet they could get to our server and rsync files. So three of the company exec's took a drive home so we had multiple backups of key files.
When I worked for Borland we used to joke that we were Microsoft's training site, because so many employees were either recruited away or just plain left for MS.
Even the non-compete's don't work because MS have so many types of projects they can put you on something different till your non-compete expires.
I discovered them years ago and bought from them both for myself, but also companies I worked for. Their customer service was great. All the best with the store front.
The mega corporations are buying up or pushing out of business all the small businesses. I recently sold by house and moved and in process used a lot of local businesses. Talking with them most were saying they will probably be gone in 3-4 years. The big corporations are cutting deals with cash strapped cites for major concessions that are driving the little guys out with extra fees, permits, and licenses.
I work in a Agile shop, but lucky for me in DevOps. All the SCRUMs, Code Sprints, developer trying to play QA is just a way to be cheap and to the "Suits" with OCD be controlling. The last big product rollout they got all their constants to come in and create code sprints and try to whip everyone up. A week in all the developers were ticked off and burnt and told the "suits" can hit the targets with all time wasted on writing test cases and not code. So the drop the Agile crap and got the rollout done. Think the "suits" would learn, no development is back to Agile suckage. Where I'm at Agile is all about control and trying to make 60 seconds of every minute work.
When people stick to the idea, previous days targets, any issues, todays targets, and move on. It fine, but when others start whining or manager wantabee start say "don't be so negative..." it turns to be a pain.
At another place I worked we had morning meeting (sit down) with all who were at work. Meeting was set a one hour max. Manger made any annoucements and floor open to issues and questions, very informal. Those ended up being good meetings very informative and some morning only 15 minutes long.
One of the companies I worked for the legal department had to come to our dev team meeting. Some guy had been sending copies of his software to our developers. We had a new version of an add-on product coming out. He also made add-ons and knew was guessing the direction we were going and probably many aspects would be the same.
What our legal department said was if our programmer's have never seen the other guys program they are "clean" programmers and no copyright violation if similar things show up. If our programmers had seen or been show the other guys program then wrote similar thing they are "dirty" programmer and what they do would be copyright violation. So legal dept collected all the still sealed copies and held them then ripped the other guy a new one.
Now what is really strange is legal said if marketing sees the other guys product and then describes a feature to a programmer the programmer is still considered a "clean" programmer. Geez no wonder there is no consistency in legal decisions.
I got into computers in the Apple II days, the first mouse I touched was on a Apple Lisa the forefather of the Mac. I worked for Mac software companies and Apple partners. So I have been around Apple and watched them a long time. I was never a Apple cult person because dealing with and watching their business practices they could be jerks. Apple was a company that tried to compete via innovation, but over the past few years their switch to litigation before innovation makes me sick.
Apple get back to R&D and Marketing and push the Legal department into the background where it belongs.
They alway tried to hide the amount of corn and the energy required to make ethanol. It never was a cost-effective solution.
The Amazon's and other large companies can afford the extra development and work to collect taxes at all the various rates and get it to the states. States have been pushing for this a long time and well eventually get it. The will be a burdon on the small internet businesses and cut into the slim margins they have to compete with the large companies.
What I would rather see is a ban on states collecting internet sales taxes, and a Federal internet sales tax. Not that I want to pay more, but have a single federal tax would make collection and payment for businesses of all sizes simpler. Then the Fed's could take the collected taxes and comes with some way to divide it up between all the states.
i remember at one place I worked I loved my keyboard , but it eventually became so grimy they forced me to throw it away and get a new one. Hey I was only one who used it!!!!
My last job I did a lot of ProTools editing on computers shared by all the audio team. We kept hand sanitizer next to the computer, but it still would get grimy. When I got bad I would just disconnect the KB and get some q-tips, tissues, and denatured alcohol. KB would clean up real nice and the alcohol evaporates fast so even if I get some inside no damage.
At home I'll clean my keyboard now and then if it gets bad, but like others said "what doesn't kill you makes you strong" and keeps others off my computer.
Was the vehicle a government car or personal?
I'm believe in privacy, but being supplied a company car, it is owned by the complainant they should be able to okay a tracker being attached.
If a personal vehicle and used for transportation to and from work then a court order should be required.
The gray area to me would be if a personal vehicle that employee is being compensated to use for work.
Cheap CFO's who saving a dime it highest importance in all decisions. We only have one (officially) Win7 box because a high priority app requires it. Servers and OS X same all old versions. Running XP works since the hardware is Jurassic too.
I have a couple Linux dev boxes because they were so anemic even XP didn't like them.
People at places I've work think of their work computers like their home computers and spend a lot of time on personal email, surfing net, chatting and other non-work computing. Some places I've worked address this restricting what can be loaded and content monitoring. That helps but people find way to waste time on non-work (and bitch they have to stay late to get work done.)
Then I've been places and gone toe-to-toe with management over all the non-work activity and typically non-work software installed. Management starts justifying it saying people work had "they deserve their diversions". They only time management will complain is when the network start slowing down or I tell them I need more storage. Then they slap employees on the wrist and the cycle start anew.
So I can fully understand the youth of today who live their lives on social media getting a tablet and doing everything but school work. Tablets and other devices will only be a distraction unless they are restricted to education related app's and tools.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology
for all the wrong reasons - Buckminster Fuller
I telecommuted for awhile and it was a weird experience. I worked for the company on-site for years then telecommute for a year or so. You don't realize how much you learn from hallway meetings and just being around your co-workers. When out of sight people forget to even CC you on email. Most info I got late and from meeting notes emailed to me. What was strange my boss had my workstation in the floor next to my desk and I remote'd into it. When I would talk to him he knew what I was up to because he would see my monitor. So out of site does mean out of mind for telecommuting.
On personal note work and my life became one. My computer room and bedroom were same room so I pretty much worked around the clock. The only time I wasn't working was when I would go out to eat. Work benefited, but it got to me eventually.
These days I prefer working from home a day or two a week and on-site the rest of the time. That is most productive to me.
I was a huge WordPerfect DOS fan it was the best wordprocessor and interface was most intuitive I've ever seen. Then they tried to make a Mac version SUCKED horriblily and if I remember they killed the product and restarted and killed again. Then they tried to do a Windows version and it was so-so at best and it died a slow death. Their problem wasn't MS it was they never successfully make the transition from a DOS text to GUI platform.
Maybe they should sue Apple too for their problems.
It's the same with reading music you learn to recognized common rhythmic patterns, same with chords voicings. Reading same thing you look at these simple words and just know them from a glance, you don't thing the letters and put it together. Even unfamiliar words you look for letter patterns first and piece together the words.
Big brother monitor every move and revisionist history. 1984 a little late, but its here.
I worked at Borland back around then and Ander et al just lived and breathed assembly language. I remember going to one of Ander's demo's and he's setting up the computer and projector. Something didn't seem right to him. Next thing he's running debug staring at a hex dump, pokes in some hex, and saves.
Turbo Pascal and Turbo C/C++ were great app's.
Sure sounds like rebirth of MS Bob. MS never lets old code go to waste, wait long enough the idea will come around again.
Any device without a keyboard you're going to swipe something to do everything include unlock function. I used to be fairly pro-patient (I just thought they lasted too long), but BS like this is moving me anti-patient.
This is stupid its like Ford saying I want to nuke Chevy because Chevy makes cars too. Competition spurs innovation and customers benefit. iPhone is not only cellphone to do what it does or even have a similar look and feel, it one competitor in market called Smartphones. Also at blame is patent office for giving patents on generic ideas, patents should be for a specific things and have short duration.
Cell phones have been constantly evolving since they first hit the market and have created a HUGE marketplace that attracted many companies including Apple. That has benefited the economy and created jobs. Apple/Steve Jobs wants to stifle that free market composition. Jobs should remember how he screwed Next computer by trying to limit what companies would write software for it. Same type of BS.
Fibre cables are pretty new for rats to be attracted to. They are a problem for some old cables because animal fat was used in the insulation. They smell the animal fat and chow down.