When spammers used to send out emails with autoreply on (1999 or so), I made up a list of about 20 spam emails that had autoreplies enabled and then replied to every spam mail with the cc list. I received quite a bit of hate mail for providing the initial push to the domino effect that resulted in taking down many an email server.
Each spammer's email server would autoreply to the 20 on the list which would then autoreply and so on. That was truly fun until they started to hijack other people's computers.
In the late 80s, I implemented an engineering change order request procedure at the electronic manufacturing plant that I worked at. It allowed anyone in the company to identify a problem in the manufacturing process and have a change investigated. Sounds reasonable by today's standards but not back then!
One day, the inventory clerk in the electronics parts room, wrote a request up about how every time a certain picklist was filled, half the parts were returned because they weren't needed.
The president of the company who was also the head of engineering and my boss, was in an absolute fit that someone other than an engineer could report a problem. I had an ongoing argument over 3 days with him where he demanded that I tell him who filled out the form so that he could fire him because it wasn't his job! I refused to give him a name.
We ran around in a circularly argument where I asked him that if an employee sees something wrong that the employee should report it or not? He said of course he should report it but only if it involved his job. I said it did involve his job! Eventually, I won out and the process was implemented. What an asshole, I lasted another 2 years then told him off and quit.
A lot of managers don't like to hear that things are not working fine. They get very defensive and take it as a personal blow to their abilities.
A lot of people don't realize it but electronics requires a good solid understanding of mathematics. As you progress through the levels of electronics: technician, technologist, engineering technologist, engineer, the required math component increases.
If you are interested in technology, there's some fields of study that most computer geeks aren't aware of: Broadcast Electronics Technology and Telecommunications Technology. Both are typically 2 year programs at a technical institute. Broadcast engineers (actually technologists) deals with the installation, repair, maintenance , design of radio, television and video/audio production facilities. Here's a link to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's (SAIT) website on the Broadcast Technology program with a nice short video.
Telecommunications conjours up ideas of phone systems but it is much more than that. In 1996, a milestone occured in telecommunications. It was the first time that more data then voice was transmitted via the phone networks. Telecommunication is the backbone of the Internet!
Every ISP, MAN or WAN ends up running through the telecommunications system. Computer networking ends at the router where it connects to the phone system, then the data magically appears at the destination router. The movie Warriors of the Net refers to the telecommunication's network as the Wild West where networking runs wild with little rules! Quite the opposite is true but it illustrates the point on how little is known about telecommunications from the computer industry.
Every residence, business and government office has a phone system and data communication network that connects to its head or branch office. There is a major convergence going on where cable companies are offering voice service and data service along with their cable service. Phone companies are offering data and video services on their networks including cell phones. It is truly an interesting era!
Here is SAIT's Telecommunication website that I am currently updating to include VOIP and PBX labs based on Astericks software. And ys, I am biased as I am an instructor at SAIT teaching these disciplines.
Good luck in your search, I hope that this information opens your eyes to other possibilities.
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I don't want to be one the receiving end of the person who ended that flamewar!
Each spammer's email server would autoreply to the 20 on the list which would then autoreply and so on. That was truly fun until they started to hijack other people's computers.
One day, the inventory clerk in the electronics parts room, wrote a request up about how every time a certain picklist was filled, half the parts were returned because they weren't needed.
The president of the company who was also the head of engineering and my boss, was in an absolute fit that someone other than an engineer could report a problem. I had an ongoing argument over 3 days with him where he demanded that I tell him who filled out the form so that he could fire him because it wasn't his job! I refused to give him a name.
We ran around in a circularly argument where I asked him that if an employee sees something wrong that the employee should report it or not? He said of course he should report it but only if it involved his job. I said it did involve his job! Eventually, I won out and the process was implemented. What an asshole, I lasted another 2 years then told him off and quit.
A lot of managers don't like to hear that things are not working fine. They get very defensive and take it as a personal blow to their abilities.
If you are interested in technology, there's some fields of study that most computer geeks aren't aware of: Broadcast Electronics Technology and Telecommunications Technology. Both are typically 2 year programs at a technical institute. Broadcast engineers (actually technologists) deals with the installation, repair, maintenance , design of radio, television and video/audio production facilities. Here's a link to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's (SAIT) website on the Broadcast Technology program with a nice short video.
Telecommunications conjours up ideas of phone systems but it is much more than that. In 1996, a milestone occured in telecommunications. It was the first time that more data then voice was transmitted via the phone networks. Telecommunication is the backbone of the Internet!
Every ISP, MAN or WAN ends up running through the telecommunications system. Computer networking ends at the router where it connects to the phone system, then the data magically appears at the destination router. The movie Warriors of the Net refers to the telecommunication's network as the Wild West where networking runs wild with little rules! Quite the opposite is true but it illustrates the point on how little is known about telecommunications from the computer industry.
Every residence, business and government office has a phone system and data communication network that connects to its head or branch office. There is a major convergence going on where cable companies are offering voice service and data service along with their cable service. Phone companies are offering data and video services on their networks including cell phones. It is truly an interesting era!
Here is SAIT's Telecommunication website that I am currently updating to include VOIP and PBX labs based on Astericks software. And ys, I am biased as I am an instructor at SAIT teaching these disciplines.
Good luck in your search, I hope that this information opens your eyes to other possibilities.