As salleried employees for my employer, the vast majoirty of their on-call Sys Admins and whatnot get nothing extra monatarilly for being on-call 24/7. Well we get the nifty pagers that give us world news on an hourly basis *smirk* guess we should be happy. The point being, my curiosity as to how many companies compensate at _all_ for this kind of thing. Our job description just says we'll answer the pages, and so we do. We do get some 'extra' benefits that are overlooked for us (long lunches and sometimes long weekends, et al.) but not officially. Overall at points the various people on my team range from content with the unofficial comp-time, to completely irritated that we aren't getting paid for it. Usually most irritated when some consultant comes in at $100+ an hour and racks up the money, whilest we have to be there too and gain nothing. Now, not to make this sound too much like a rant, it's not really, but again, I'm curious how many sys. admin type workers are in this situation, and how many are happy with it. I can also say, that frequently in my case at least that an extra day or two on the weekend (Though I still have to answer pages while out of town) without having to constantly use up my vacation, is well worth the lack of monatary compensation. But others on our team _NEVER_ take long weekends, and certainly should be getting something out of the deal in my opinion. Seems to be a lot of personal preference though.
to anyone, after all, I'm 65 feet from the fibre for Qwest, ICG, and Sprint, where I live (they all run along my side of the street), but call any of them and ask about getting a connection, and you need a T1, w/ a local-loop installed (by the LEC, ie. Qwest) and so on. Thing is, while I technically understand, it's not easy to just 'patch' into fibre, unless you were meant to patch in there. I'd still love to see someone who had the setup, so in major areas (I'm in the denver tech center, so there's certainly a lot of buildings around that could use not HAVING to have the LEC install a local-loop), that I _could_ get fibre into my house without Qwest being involved.
This patent would cover any submition of information covering a process to a registration
office, from now on referred to as the Patent Office, or "PO" for short. This registration office would keep on file the information describing the process, and legally award the submitee a short-term (Less than 500 years) monopoly on such registered process. Allowing the submitee to licence, sell, or forbid use of registered process.
The terms of a registered process will be enforceable by any means needed, legal or illegal.
The PO is allowed to charge a fee for their registration services.
Oh good, one patent I can almost avoid completely. Sadly, the one patent I would willing pay if it meant I also got a good nights sleep out of the deal.
I was doing a web based inventory for a companies machines back in '94-'95. Used this whole stream of things, post, get's, databases, heh.. Anyone off the top of their head know the address needed to send prior art too? I've got that system on disk around somewhere. *off to hunt for the address to send prior art to and where to challenge a patent*
Well, here at work (company in this case shall remain unnamed, sadly, I'd love to bitch about them;) they use Remedy. A big expensive commercial trouble ticket package which should never have become a shipping product. Though supposedly they have the second largest base of users for a software product in the world. Us, being the Sun admins taking care of the servers for Remedy, have actually had to implement our own trouble ticket/change control system for Remedy. So we've gone with a web based solution for that, which handles our feature set pretty well. Basically we gather contact info, group info, project info, priority, what the problem is, who found it, etc... I'm in the process of putting a snazzy interface on it, and actually am also working on a real version at home in my spare time. Figure Remedy gets emense ammounts of money every day for their product, I could do a commercial release of mine for a pitance, and maybe earn a little spare change to actually live off of.
Just a note on your Sun switching to PowerPC thing. They did actually, there WAS a full port of Solaris 2.x (.6 was the last one I saw shreds of outside of Sun) to the PowerPC processor.
Supposedly it ran fairly well on the x500 Macs too, and probably would have run fine on CHRP boxes... if they'd ever sold any. Actually, you can still find patch sets for those OS's that Sun will release that also contain PPC support. As for whether 7/8 are on PPC, well anyone with this info, please mail me, I've been dying to find a copy for years (hell, if you have 2.5.1 | 2.6 even).
If Sun would put it on the Sun Store, I know a whole group of people that would buy copies, as well as whatever supported hardware was needed.
Well, I don't know about Microsoft's studies, but on a job I worked on back around '95 our Sun systems (and we had a lot of 'em nationwide) had a downtime of less than %1 of %1. I've yet to talk to a Window's user of any flavour that was able to claim that.
Well just for the informational side from the non-Be-FAQ;) All the hardware that Be would have needed to reverse engineer, they already had. All other hardware changes between the PowerMac's that Be already supports and the G3 based ones are all either, chips compatible with the already reverse engineered chips, or have publically available documentation. The memory controller being the most major change, and it's a standard Motorola chip with online documentation.
Heh, as an interesting note to this story. I always send my resume to companies and recruiters as text in the message. Usually that works out allright for companies HR departments, but the recruiters are a different story.
Numerous times I've been requested to re-send as a word document so they can "Print it out." These people being incapable of printing out an e-mail, or even copying and pasting. I've also had at least on recruiter that, unable to copy and paste, printed the resume out (Thank god they could do that) and typed it by hand back into Word.
I think my other most amusing story was reformatting my resume into a headhunters 'style' for them. Because they weren't able to figure out how to include the actual needed information that was on my resume in their style.
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As salleried employees for my employer, the vast majoirty of their on-call Sys Admins and whatnot get nothing extra monatarilly for being on-call 24/7. Well we get the nifty pagers that give us world news on an hourly basis *smirk* guess we should be happy. The point being, my curiosity as to how many companies compensate at _all_ for this kind of thing. Our job description just says we'll answer the pages, and so we do. We do get some 'extra' benefits that are overlooked for us (long lunches and sometimes long weekends, et al.) but not officially. Overall at points the various people on my team range from content with the unofficial comp-time, to completely irritated that we aren't getting paid for it. Usually most irritated when some consultant comes in at $100+ an hour and racks up the money, whilest we have to be there too and gain nothing. Now, not to make this sound too much like a rant, it's not really, but again, I'm curious how many sys. admin type workers are in this situation, and how many are happy with it. I can also say, that frequently in my case at least that an extra day or two on the weekend (Though I still have to answer pages while out of town) without having to constantly use up my vacation, is well worth the lack of monatary compensation. But others on our team _NEVER_ take long weekends, and certainly should be getting something out of the deal in my opinion. Seems to be a lot of personal preference though.
to anyone, after all, I'm 65 feet from the fibre for Qwest, ICG, and Sprint, where I live (they all run along my side of the street), but call any of them and ask about getting a connection, and you need a T1, w/ a local-loop installed (by the LEC, ie. Qwest) and so on. Thing is, while I technically understand, it's not easy to just 'patch' into fibre, unless you were meant to patch in there. I'd still love to see someone who had the setup, so in major areas (I'm in the denver tech center, so there's certainly a lot of buildings around that could use not HAVING to have the LEC install a local-loop), that I _could_ get fibre into my house without Qwest being involved.
This patent would cover any submition of information covering a process to a registration office, from now on referred to as the Patent Office, or "PO" for short. This registration office would keep on file the information describing the process, and legally award the submitee a short-term (Less than 500 years) monopoly on such registered process. Allowing the submitee to licence, sell, or forbid use of registered process.
The terms of a registered process will be enforceable by any means needed, legal or illegal.
The PO is allowed to charge a fee for their registration services.
Oh good, one patent I can almost avoid completely. Sadly, the one patent I would willing pay if it meant I also got a good nights sleep out of the deal.
I was doing a web based inventory for a companies machines back in '94-'95. Used this whole stream of things, post, get's, databases, heh.. Anyone off the top of their head know the address needed to send prior art too? I've got that system on disk around somewhere. *off to hunt for the address to send prior art to and where to challenge a patent*
Well, here at work (company in this case shall remain unnamed, sadly, I'd love to bitch about them;) they use Remedy.
A big expensive commercial trouble ticket package which should never have become a shipping product.
Though supposedly they have the second largest base of users for a software product in the world.
Us, being the Sun admins taking care of the servers for Remedy, have actually had to implement our own trouble ticket/change control system for Remedy. So we've gone with a web based solution for that, which handles our feature set pretty well.
Basically we gather contact info, group info, project info, priority, what the problem is, who found it, etc...
I'm in the process of putting a snazzy interface on it, and actually am also working on a real version at home in my spare time. Figure Remedy gets emense ammounts of money every day for their product, I could do a commercial release of mine for a pitance, and maybe earn a little spare change to actually live off of.
Just a note on your Sun switching to PowerPC thing. They did actually, there WAS a full port of Solaris 2.x (.6 was the last one I saw shreds of outside of Sun) to the PowerPC processor.
Supposedly it ran fairly well on the x500 Macs too, and probably would have run fine on CHRP boxes... if they'd ever sold any. Actually, you can still find patch sets for those OS's that Sun will release that also contain PPC support. As for whether 7/8 are on PPC, well anyone with this info, please mail me, I've been dying to find a copy for years (hell, if you have 2.5.1 | 2.6 even).
If Sun would put it on the Sun Store, I know a whole group of people that would buy copies, as well as whatever supported hardware was needed.
Well, I don't know about Microsoft's studies, but on a job I worked on back around '95 our Sun systems (and we had a lot of 'em nationwide) had a downtime of less than %1 of %1. I've yet to talk to a Window's user of any flavour that was able to claim that.
For me it varies between the domain you use too reference the machines..
:)
One domain is world locations, of various types,
such as cyprus, marakesh, etc...
One is (somewhat)little known places in Disney theme parks, such as reedycreek, club33, etc..
And the last of current domains is things that make sense coming out of Mulan, mainly dealing with Mushu.
Yes I am a Disney fan, go fig
I think for my next domain I'll do historic battles...
Openness: Yoda, and Very High, %96 :)
Conscientious: Ackbar, Very high, %89
Extraversion: Ewoks, Neither high nor low, %59
Agreeablness: Emporor Palpatine, Low, %17
Neuroticism: R2-D2, Low, %27
As I told a friend, I'm now officially a very open, thoughtful, sane, cruel man.
Well just for the informational side from the non-Be-FAQ ;) All the hardware that Be would have needed to reverse engineer, they already had. All other hardware changes between the PowerMac's that Be already supports and the G3 based ones are all either, chips compatible with the already reverse engineered chips, or have publically available documentation. The memory controller being the most major change, and it's a standard Motorola chip with online documentation.
Heh, as an interesting note to this story. I always send my resume to companies and recruiters as text in the message. Usually that works out allright for companies HR departments, but the recruiters are a different story.
Numerous times I've been requested to re-send as a word document so they can "Print it out." These people being incapable of printing out an e-mail, or even copying and pasting. I've also had at least on recruiter that, unable to copy and paste, printed the resume out (Thank god they could do that) and typed it by hand back into Word.
I think my other most amusing story was reformatting my resume into a headhunters 'style' for them. Because they weren't able to figure out how to include the actual needed information that was on my resume in their style.
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