Tuesday, December 30, 2008
0.01$ Bet Online Roulette
I have not had any cases of users who do not spell well us your username, or we go crazy when locating any of your details, but today has been a firecracker, I suppose, to seal the year. It was unlock a user in an application. We only had the user name and a phone. He had registered their e-mail in your application, and the name does not find anything, so there was only a phone call. That began the ordeal. Technical
: (After the appropriate greetings and such) Tell me the name that brings to enter the application, please.
User: Designation of Origin Salvatierra of Adventure
T: Pardon? (In our application comes with more terse names.)
U: Designation of Origin Salvatierra of Adventure
T: (And her ...) Sorry but that username I do not see anything. "I can spell? (This is what you can not tell the user what the hell is saying).
U: Yeah, right. D of Denmark, O de Oviedo, Zaragoza S , Avila A, V de Valencia, E Spain, N of Navarra, Teruel T ...
T: But that's not what I said before ...
U: No, of course, are the initials ...
T: (Sure, and I'm guess ....) I guess I wanted to say "D" "O" "Z", right?
U: "" Z "? no, no, is "S"
T: (...) Okay, okay, now I find its user. Let's reset password, the new Clave008 will try to get now, with this key, and request a new password that will be the one left in the system.
U: Okay, so I put dozaventura user, and password Clave2008
T: No, it Clave008 (Am I speaking Chinese?)
Finally, in the end has managed to put your new password ... and I'm still looking for the letter S in Zaragoza ...
By the way, Happy New Year to all. See you again next year
Monday, December 22, 2008
Breasfeeding An Older Man
XD Well then, gentlemen, that gift of kings, we all have a draft prepared by the ministry in
But once again I go back on my feet as usual. Why do I have to pay that fee if I use my connection to this blog, and my own website? Why do I have to pay a fee to take a picture with my friends, or the photos I sell on my site? This is incomprehensible. It lacked a long time ago, but each time getting worse.
I hope that they can stop your feet somehow, and if anyone knows how, that has my full support. Gentlemen, I am not a criminal, but the style of others if they have become delinquent, from here I happened to notice the dark side. If I'm paying for something that I do, and also force me to pay, I will start taking advantage of that investment. It's over buying original stuff. What for? I've already paid for it.
Updated: really do not know if it was a hoax, as some of you say in the comments. It is true that I have appeared as a hoax, but now seemed to gather strength. In any case, this news of The Inquirer is clear that the $ EAG has decided to forgive life ... Finally, with no settlement.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Cost Of Jcpenneys Salon Services
... this year I have been very good. I have not killed any luser, and I have endured the bad management of the project that I'm not thinking any more than necessary to deal it a good beating to my head.
So I would like to ask you this year bring me some goodies. My boss would be well understood that there is no point starting a project 30 people, and just as he begins to have sufficient workload for those 30 people, reduce the staff to just 20. I would also like to ask a computer course for all my luser, and please, do you attend, and learn to use a computer. Do not ask to know to fix it, but please do not call me more often because they do not know how to put a website on your favorites (truthful) and did not know explained above.
You see, I have not asked for anything, but I conform to let me keep my work schedule, and do not call me during my days off. I think it's not much, but that even this is true, so I'd like to be respected.
promise to leave you a cup of milk and some cookies to tell you of my health toméis Twelfth Night, and recuperéis many strengths.
Thanks in advance.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Can You Get Prescription Deodorant
We will not enter into a discussion whether there is life on other planets. For this I am sure there are other blogs, and pages with much more knowledge about a humble servant, but yesterday evening watching the movie I have some inconsistencies, especially in the end, that might not work.
Overall I think a movie or even credible. Ignoring the typical American, of course. But dedicated to what we do that we make this blog, and many of those that you read, do not tell me that the end of this production affords you some questions. (Sorry for which you have not seen the time you have, but I'm going to gut). It turns out that a ship that Americans have saved and have been repaired, the first assumption inconsistent, are able to connect to the network of the mother ship, and infect their computers with a virus. TOMA YA! Okay, we speak of a fiction, but ... analyze a little because I think this is unlikely, and therefore not credible:
- laptop is connected to a network to ship stolen. Clear is that the aliens use a RJ45 to their networks as well. Ah, no, they will via serial port, and looks to have been able to cross the galaxy. Come
- , right, as Americans have a ship, have a network adapter. I think so. But it is also have had to crack the network protocol, and create a program that translates from a traditional TCP / IP the alien.
- Well, come Christmas, today I believe it all, and I'm going to believe the second point too. Of course, now we see that infect the computer system of the aliens with a simple virus. What happens? "Microsoft will sell Windows 95? (The film is 96). And on top would be the first compilation. Now I know why Bill Gates is so rich.
Incidentally, this is your first post I write in my new ultraportable. In the end it dropped an Asus EeePC 1000H, and so far it seems a wonder. Programs can not imagine that I could move.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Most Beautiful French Word
several days I've been reading all over the headlines and articles about the same, the many hours we work in Spain, and the less productive we are, always comparing ourselves with other countries. They speak of the need to go to a new working model, which facilitates telecommuting, flexible schedules, and all that sort of thing.
Just then, one begins to review the logs of the application in which we work and ... go, if someone has been entering the program during the weekend. Came at about nine o'clock Saturday night, and the last movement did to the eleven and a half!! And I at that time and was not at home.
Well, this log I draw two conclusions. The first is that in my project, actually, there is teleworking. The second is that we also have flexible schedules. The contradiction comes when these articles spoke of telework in the normal working day, and was flexible schedule to spend time with family, and with no family, no work to be at the side of the family (in the best cases).
I keep walking along the logs of the tool, and begin to review the time you have recorded the people within it, and come to find a person working 15 hours a day !!!!!!!!! ! Worst of all was the greeting the boss the next day, and indications saying that we should learn from this person.
Dear boss, you should learn. Maybe you should check that after the fifth hour of work that day, all the changes you made that person in the system had to be further amended, for there was an error.
Conclusion: I hope they are right and we can telecommute and have longer opening hours flexible, but just as spoken at meetings, not in this way. Seriously, every day I see more borreguismo in this profession, and hear more of that "If Head, what you say." Where is the dialogue? And worse, where is the private life of each? These people are believed to do us a favor, and really what we are doing is sinking into poverty.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Pattycake Online My Dots Ii
fact, it's that or when milk is the happy interview. I do not want to know. For those who do not know that this is going, is an initiative against the reality shows, which has mounted after news that Julian Muñoz gave an interview to Tele 5 by "only" 350,000 Euros. We always complain about trash TV in Spain, and now we can do something. That is why I inform you that I, personally, I join the initiative, and I invite all of you to join. Let's see if we get something, but I see it complicated.
not you, but that I also do not cost me any effort. This is a topic that interests me the least, nor thought to see. Or does anyone really interested in seeing this impresentable now speculating with us and making money at our expense? As they say on the campaign Web , using that money in some of their 12 cases.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Waht Causes Warts On The Lip
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That if I can guarantee you that I'm doing my utmost for overtime are free to do it from home, doing my thing. Lately I'm spending to pass the Browns who have to carry, my boss, and that the project has grown, downs based on pants, and of course, the end is that my boss has discovered that getting out of bed and out of your house and not putting them on.
Ultimately, I have in an ultraportable way, I hope to buy some time for personal matters, among which is this blog, and in passing I will take a 3G modem and put the first antenna wireless in my house. One thing my teammates know I have always renegade, but in the end, just when a vulnerability is found in the WPA security, and I'll jump ... I'm the worst.
take for advice on fees, and 3G connections. To give you some information, I will say that I hope to read some websites from time time, and send emails with a picture attached. The remaining work will be provided locally, and rarely have to download big stuff. Thought Movistar rate of 1 € per day for 10 Mb, but such is not speed, and stuff.
I hope your comments.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Adapt Battery Drill In Run On Electricity
Often users do see how some animals with authentic equipment. Other times, we we put the leg and the result is equally disastrous. Other times, as has Wardog in the post that brought me here to mind , which makes the animal is a juntapiezas, that in no case can call computer professional. But sometimes which makes the animal is the manufacturer itself, and here I will give two examples.
In the first, have the manufacturer wanted to provide the customer with a multimedia-minded team. In fact, was one of the first teams that appeared in Spain with Windows XP Media Center. The brand had already drawn a line of products with the operating system, but lacked a low-end equipment in the catalog, and this was the equipment in question. 512 MB of RAM, and in fact, instead of putting a dedicated graphics card, the brand decided to use the built into the motherboard. The team hits the market, and customers begin to buy, but when they get home ... Oh, heavens, what wrong? Where do I plug the monitor? Indeed, the manufacturer wanted to use the onboard integrated graphics, but they forgot that the board had not chosen an integrated graphics card ... Do not test the equipment? Surely not.
The second case is more subtle. We have the equipment already sold, but detected a fault in the BIOS that can produce a small error, duplicating the MAC address of the integrated network card. In addition, we intend to save in the process of assembling the equipment. Instead of putting the fans each to a board connector (on the box, and the processor), decided to connect the two fans to a single connector, using a cable which is then divided in two. Returning to the error of the MAC, well look, the manufacturer of the motherboard, it gives us a BIOS update that resolves the problem, so we sent through the automatic updates of the software preinstalled on the computer, and hang on the web as a critical update. Begin to upgrade computers and flood of calls to the SAT with an error at startup that says there is "a failure of ventilation." What happens? Easy, now the BIOS checks if it has all the fans connected, and as you might remember, we used only one connector instead of two that is the motherboard, so it fails. All equipment to the shop to change the damn cable.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Pokemon Silver Hacks Vba
is what companies have now. They play divide and conquer that and get over it. I will not give too many details for obvious reasons, but enough.
We have several ingredients in a shaker. Holiday, customer need, and no compensation. The mixture having the following form. We take the holiday (no matter which party is a local, national, or weekend), and put a customer need that has to stop all its systems. Well, okay, our work is, and we already know. Hey, can you play some lively work. To finish our cocktail, we make a slave
Well, we have our nice cocktail, and now we take over the employees. But notice that things, is that employees decide to talk to each other, and all are positioned against the cocktail. Okay, now let the head above the employees. Well, let's clarify this a bit. The boss calls a meeting to explain the fantastic cocktail ingredients we have, and employees, without the boss knowing, have decided to present its case at that meeting.
meeting opens and thorny point is reached. Well, better said, someone pulls the sore point with the following sentence: "Hey, mister boss, and what compensation we will have?". The answer is emphatically: "None. It is your job. " Since no one went with the theme, the same as putting the question states that it agrees. Where are all those who said they did not agree, and they would jump into the neck of the Boss? ...
Come on, surely you know the answer ...
right? I say unto you. In the same room, around the same table, but quiet, and looking away while listening to the cries of foul language that head over to give us work, we complain. Well, complains one ... And then we want an agreement, we to strike, and we intend to go people. Of course, as in the demonstrations for and against decent work 65 hours where he was a server. There was no 300.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are very bad.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
How Can You Change Your Name On Poptropica
This is incomprehensible. In this case I speak of the computer reset, no, I mean the brain reset users. Users who, in this case, moreover, are not so newbies.
Suppose a program created specifically for the job and on the use of which users receive a training course. After a month or two to adapt all the users already use the tool without problems, and everything works fine. That's when
reset effect appears. Suddenly, one day, for no apparent reason, a user starts to make mistakes in using the tool. Errors committed at the beginning, and have been explained until, apparently, understood, and began to do well for several months until the arrival of this effect reset. It applies a new explanation, just like that of princpio:
"First you press the button '1 ', then press '2', filled this data, you hit the button '3 'and it is." Again
understand it, but inevitably, in three or four months the effect will reset again. Most striking is This effect does not have to appear after a holiday, even after a weekend, or bridge, no. It appears that if either a Thursday, like today, when the user says you can not fill in the details, but did not press the button '1 ', and does not understand that does not work.
Most troubling of this effect is reset is contagious, that you will begin to talk to other users who get confused, and reset his brain, forgetting again how the application of the buttons '1 ', '2' . and '3 '. It's that our existence is hard, folks. Not only the computers are reset.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Blonde Or Brown In Summer
Economic crisis, a crisis of ideas in Hollywood, and now crisis in computer fairs ... The question for me is another. Everyone is blaming the cancellation of this edition of SIMO to the financial crisis, but is this true?
From my humble point of view, the answer is pretty clear. No. I've been a regular at the fair for several years, and in it I've seen all kinds of news. I liked that you could always go fiddling with a pileup new or see something you know. But that was then. With the spread that has Internet, and as Enrique Dans said in his blog , developments are becoming less. The only attraction could be fiddling with the gadget in question and see a presentation of exhibitors demonstrating the benefits of your product.
Year after year, SIMO has lost interest (I speak from my point of view), because every time we find less real news. The interest was beginning to be tender. Perhaps the limit was last year, where the only interesting thing was seeing the "bargains" found in different stores. In fact, the only production he gets from the last edition of SIMO was a 19 "a pretty cheap price. The rest was all already seen.
What has happened this year, honestly, could see. One year (specifically 2005), I was fortunate to attend the Computex exhibition in Taipei. Manufacturers really there, rather than presenting new, seeking business opportunities, something perhaps a bit forgotten in SIMO. You could talk directly with manufacturers, tell your needs, and they will offering solutions. In SIMO, with few exceptions, access to people who really know what they're talking about, was a job, at least complicated. For the record, I speak from personal experience, but for me, except in the case of small manufacturers who also attend SIMO, always has been. Hopefully
really give it another go to the fair by 2009. The fact is that this year was considering going to the ministry sound to see the possibility of buying a notebook there with some of the offers of speaking before, but hey, I guess I will resort to store a friend (or is , or this one, or many others that I left out), which always gives me more confidence.
PD-I feel the lack of post these days, but that I'm quite busy. For the record, I have not forgotten you, and hopefully increase the number of items soon.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Can You Get Sponsored In Track And
Fortunately or unfortunately in our profession, as in many others, the departments of Human Resources are not very clear at the time to explain how the job they offer. They use technical language and other tricks to convince you that your job is the best, and you should devote your time to your business. Since
after endless selection process, if after spending 5 telephone interviews, 7 interviews, and demonstrate how to do a handstand bridge while typing with the tabs, you'll have to spend much time on this job that I offered the Human Resources department, here I e provide a small table for you to understand better what they mean in the job that you present yourselves as candidates
.* * (This dictionary is based on personal experiences and may have some variation. It is open to your contributions in the comments)
| What calls / tell HR? | What will it mean in our work? |
| Customer Orientation | No matter what the client asks you to install Windows Vista on a Pentium II, all the things you should ask it as impossible as it seems. |
| person Proactive | Your boss actually has no idea how pajolera is your job, and always think that you do it wrong. You better, although you never know if you are improving. Logically, you do not know. |
| own vehicle Desirable | Did we leave your car? Well, actually we have car cheap company. So cheap you're going to pay you. Do not complain, you get paid mileage, but you will not get or to gas. |
| benefits are offered | Come on, if you're lucky, you'll have health insurance, and even "restaurant checks." Not give you a menu or to pay, but ... it's cool to get to the restaurant checks? |
| Company expanding | For some strange reason we do not know (or rather, we do not know), has been a large number of people who have left our company at a time, and must be replaced. Fancy? |
| offer training
| give you plenty of time management courses, as expressed to the phone, customer satisfaction, and other useless things |
| seek a dynamic / rotating shifts / 24x7 | Well, actually what we want is that what your schedule is dynamic. Translated into reality, you know when you enter, but not when you leave, and no, that is NOT overtime. Do you like the computer, right? Then there will be no problem. Surely you do not have life beyond the computer. |
| seek a Computer Maintenance Technician | As I would explain it ... Here was a guy who gave us all those electric gadgets that we work with, but do not know exactly what they are good, and less like work, so I have to fix it everything. You say this thing is to shred paper? So that, if you are a computer will know to fix it, right? In short, if you plug it should fix you. |
| organizational capacity | We all turned upside down, and we want to keep it that way, and your must have the ability to organize in this disorder. |
| Knowledge in programming languages \u200b\u200b | If not look at me. Do not know what it is to program? What language? Well here we are talking old Castilian. You, what programs or programs? |
| Extensive knowledge of new technologies. | Yeah, yeah, here we use the latest systems have come on the market. Windows 3.1 and 486 DX processor. The Ultimate hear. |
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
How Do I Stop My Spinning Bike From Squeeking
silly date:
user calls me because he has a problem viewing a Web page internal to the company.
When I approach, the user is working with word documents and when you open Internet Explorer to show the Web page the user indicates amazed problems:
"Look, now gone, I can think of many times when I'm on a Web page open another, the former me away every time the computer is going worse and I think you ought to change me. "
disbelief at what I hear and see, grab your mouse and the only change is the internet explorer tab. The user viewing the bullshit that was changed immediately the subject.
understand that people do not have to know everything in the computer world, but at least if they have to see how your work OOL and not blame their ignorance as ever to the computer or the IT department. Above all he gives you the effect is a computer engineer.
Finally, dondeo there can not be removed.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Pain Near Shoulders After Laparoscopy
Well, I was going to address this issue on Friday but it was impossible. But as promised, I will discuss my views on the new Google browser today as well, so I got to know a little better.
From my point of view, someone is determined to sell Google Chrome as a "trading platform" (sorry, but we do not call it school is "Operating System" as others say) to work on the web. Okay, okay, then what is a browser? That's basically the same, or so I think. You can do better or worse, but a browser, by definition, we can display web pages, and virtually all browsers have evolved to allow us to run applications on the web, so, for me, is a browser.
On this premise, I think the browser Google introduced some interesting concepts. Using a separate process for each tab, you can save the odd scare if the browser is closed due to an error. Imagine you have a text in a tab (this post, for example), and the browser is blocked by a fault in another tab. May be a good task, which would Chrome airy. I have not had to prove the property with actual errors, but if I closed a tab from the task manager that includes Chrome, and it works without problem.
also gives the feeling that it is quite nimble when it comes to open the pages visited, like Opera, and it seems that the new V8 engine to interpret javascript works pretty well.
In the section of the contras, for me is its design. Simple, focused on navigation and, yes, but still have no clear reason to remove the menus. I liked when I saw it in Internet Explorer 7, and I do not like about Google Chrome. Maybe this is a lesser evil. I worry more about something that I see worst solution for the user. If you copy and paste text in a textarea on a form, copy the text format, with all that that entails. I have not been much research on this topic, but I have not seen any option to prevent this from happening. For reasons not relevant here, is something that I particularly bother me, and I guess someone else will find this "problem."
No cons I put in the vulnerabilities found since, as you all know, the browser is in beta, so you still have work ahead. That if, once again, as happened with Firefox, and now with Internet Explorer 8, is being given undue hype the launch of a beta, users with little experience, they are using as if it were a final version, some if I find objectionable. Since Google always argue that the word Beta, but all people know what this means? And I answer, NO.
For now, the browser is installed on my computer, as I prefer to make my sites display correctly in the from now (I have not had any problems with pages that already had planned, except the issue of the textarea). Continue their development, and we will see how this new product from Google, which, once again, making target marketing is very high.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
V. Bernardelli Gardone V.l.
After a while without writing by overwork and not more than a holiday or have been thinking that these are about to arrive, to tell you something back for the month of August has left me with the mouth open.
In my work, there are several groups trying different areas. All of them are programmers, but of course with the holidays, because we have to do a little of everything. No problem, the truth is that we have a good team and very good atmosphere, so it all rolled out. But the trouble comes from the client side (again). Not that we do not metamos foot, also, is that the client is somewhat peculiar.
needed to modify a program, and, according to him, ran in a hurry. We were on Wednesday, and I wanted to without fail by Friday. As the project has been running relatively short time (only 6 months), for nothing, we start to organize it. We decided to stop other modifications we were doing, and devote more people to that amendment was ready on time. On Thursday afternoon comes the big news. Everything was finished, and it will ask the client to do the testing necessary on Friday, just in case something goes wrong.
Contact the client, discussed it, and that's where the surprise comes. The client's response was:
Oh, you already finished? Perfect, I'll try in September. Is that I'm on vacation, and wanted it to be ready for when he returned ...Luckily it told us by phone. The face of one of the program denotes certain temptations to cause fatal wounds to the deceased need.
PD-Tomorrow I'll try to tell you about my first impressions of Google Chrome. I think you need to mature a bit, but we must be attentive to the evolution continues.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
80s Work Out Costumes
good, since I moved I had problems with the broadband connection, so the last year and a half have hardly evolved this journal.
I move again, but until within about two months do not think he has the right connection, hopefully in a month.
so that from Puerto Principe, a greeting to all
Monday, August 18, 2008
Can I Use My Bluetooth Headset On Plane
is clear that the heat affects us all. We feel like less work, is more difficult to concentrate, and the heat makes us pay less. Moreover, this lack of focus makes some errors "stupid" in other times of year, normally not commit. The problem comes when the error was committed before the summer, but directly affects the summer months.
I put in a situation. A company makes that absolutely all applications that make their employees are handled through an application. Perhaps your computer is broken, that a program fails, to a fluorescent blown, absolutely everything is on a single program. Well, it's a way to control what happens in your business. Perhaps increasing the bureaucracy, but it can work. Obviously, like any computer application, required maintenance, and development team for possible improvements, and in this case, the two teams (maintenance and development) are attached. So far so good.
But of course, a few months to occur to them to get employees to ask for summer vacation (which occurrences have sometimes, really). Come, let's go holiday giving, poor, whether in the background until they deserve.
now traveled a little in time, namely until last week. The application to channel all Work begins to fail. Well, we do not get nervous, we will call the people who give support, which, as always, will fix in a moment, but ... What? Nobody picks up the phone? Ops, all equipment that carries the application is on vacation. No one else in the company's permission even to enter the administration of the application. Come, go, first test of the computer. Restart the server hosting the application, and ... Well, it still fails, and no one to support him ... In three weeks!
From there came the panic among the officers of the company (Not the managers, that these also are on vacation). Ultimately able to locate the shift Noob who, despite being on vacation, was in town, and went to fix the mess. No, not me, nor was my business. If I'm on vacation, my phone too. Displaying
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Japanese Tattoo Fonts Generator
And now I come to talk a little the subject. The first say that, actually, I do not think that my conditions are bad, nor do I lose if the agreement goes ahead eventually. But that does not mean that we conform to what they're putting on the table. We can not think that the agreement puts our peak hours are 1800 hours, this is going to comply, and will let you have unpaid overtime as usual. I am the first who does not believe, and I do not believe that absolutely nobody. Moreover, as in many cases the hours "official" decrease the number of hours "face", may rise. While that is a thing of each. I have a rule I refuse to do something you do not get paid. One thing that I like what I do, and quite another to do it for free.
Besides, I think the goal they have set for this agreement is very low. Purport to regulate a sector which until now was a real joke, and so far, it still is. I know people very close to doing a job similar to mine, to do it on a bench, enjoying stunning conditions. Vale, the banking agreement is one of the good and not going to get in 10 minutes, but why not try to pull a bit over there? If you work 100 hours less per year than proposed by our Convention! Not to mention the housing loans are also by convention, and myriad other benefits.
I took this agreement as an example to be banking I know best, but really, what I've seen for ICT seems to me a very poor proposal that really we all lose. So I wrote the previous post. I want an agreement for ICT, because my company, for their work, it must adhere to it, and there is no possibility of doubt. But I want a decent agreement, not something like what has been proposed, and it's over, the employer has blocked because they are convinced that something more we can get even.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Hard To Find Chef's Choice In Canada
'm getting lately is that many labor issues in the blog, but I think it is something that concerns all of us who work in this sector, at least for others. It turns out that a few days ago I came news of what had agreed to the agreement of ICT, which is now blocked up that the employer does not agree. It
who remember 1800 hours per year, where I now work 1760 (accounts do not do as I tell you, it's one more week of work per year). They agree to have 23 working days leave, and I have 24. "Dan" intensive day a month (August), and in my company now has 2 months ... That if you do not talk about the salary increase by the CPI, that's not what I have now, or the nasty habit of these increases are offset other accessories that the company gives all employees as well, to give two examples.
In conclusion ... How do you expect me to mobilize for this convention? Sure, man, I'll go on strike to work 40 hours, and miss a day of vacation. Yes sir. I was thinking about that right now. I think that effectively, we need an agreement for ICT, but a negotiated agreement with the head. Of course ... not just the fault of the unions that have sat down to negotiate this.
has already been said on countless occasions in our sector unions have no power. If you intend any mobilization, monitoring that is is laughable. Does not really affect the companies, so companies are very clear: "Do what you want. I did find out I will. " This is only our fault, the Currito in this sector, with few exceptions, always leaves someone with aspirations to reach CEO, and that does what the boss says, and clear, so it goes.
this post is not going to change anything, but it helps me relief in a situation that almost makes me laugh. The negotiation blocked by the employer after 18 months and above, instead of seeing that we won something, all I see are missing regarding the current situation. As cool.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Hot Or Cold Shower Before Wax
I decided that, for once in my life, I will follow the fashion, and let's talk a little bit of this term as many laps is giving lately. Looking for a bit, I found the following definition in English Wikipedia, but has not been authorized :
Cloud computing is being able to develop and investigate parallel des multiple computers. All information must be on servers, currently operating programs and are installed on the computer must be running Internet dare and that the implementation of these cloud Applications is completely online and can access these applications from any terminal with Internet access .
may not be a very rigorous definition (is much better explained in the same English wikipedia), but it gives an idea where the shots go. Overall, I think it is something that is limited only to scheduling and research, but it could be applied to any field of computing. From a small notebook that I can go anywhere, and update, to a complete project, or an application that makes us go anywhere the tasks assigned to us and give us the means to carry them out anywhere. At least, this is the way I see it. We could take it much further, but I extend giving examples, and not what I want.
The party I want to get is to move this to the Real World ™. In Spain, I think this view of computing, will stay, like many things, one of the many castles in the air we have. I've been three or four years with the feeling that going to the office, is a mere waste of time and money, both for me and for my company (and in that time have been several). In none of my recent work I have dealt with applications installed on a resident on my computer, if not in servers that still have access from home, or who could access with a minimal change in the corporate firewall. Moreover, if we stick to the definition, it is Cloud Computing. Applications are not on my team, if not centralized in some servers.
The problem is the concept that we in Spain on this sort of thing. It seems that if the boss can not see you, you is not working. The funny part of this paper is that, on occasion, I lost more time looking for a program or a file over the network, knowing that I have it on your home computer within easy reach, and it would take half a minute to mail it, and ready.
I think that Cloud Computing has come a while ago, only now it has a name "groovy" and everyone tries to take advantage of one form or another. As always in Spain long before we get to work in a truly distributed by the wonderful reputation we have vague, and, believe it the first to literally, are the bosses. If all my work is online, why I have to keep tied to a job?
For if anyone has not noticed, in my humble opinion, this is now called cloud computing, is the final step in order to have full mobility. I focused a bit on the topic of work, but I think it extends to almost all areas. I hope that this trend begins to change sooner than later, and we can move a bit in the wonderful world of the network.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
How Do I Stop My Spinner Bike From Squeaking
Well, once, our friend digital shopkeeper, had the odd "little problem" to qualified service Asus, which in Spain is Caelsa. As has been done on many other occasions, in a desperate attempt to find a solution to the problem, you post something on a blog, for two things, first, off your chest, and secondly, to prevent others from falling into the same trap .
The good thing is that when things are going well, also helps people to respond, and from Asus offered to check the laptop he brought down the street from bitterness to our grocer. Indeed failed, but ... despite the direct intervention of Asus, the nightmare continues .
And I think on Asus Eee ... I'm afraid I'll turn to another ultraportable, because if for whatever I have to send these unpresentable of Caelsa, better take my leave of him.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Madison Badger Basketball Charter
That in this the computer are called X-Files, I do not think anyone gets out of us in this world. The downside of the matter is when you find one of those X-Files in the face. Well, in my case, face-to-back. It
I called a friend with a laptop that shuts off after five minutes of being on, and is connected to the mains, or battery. I go there, and the poor laptop was crap that was falling, so without turning it on if you like, I hit a good clean. Dust out of all places you can imagine. I started to assume that that was the problem, the unit began to fail in the heat of summer, so it appeared cooling problems.
After the enema, I proceed to boot the computer. I meet my good friend Windows Vista, that if original, so I proceed to check power options, update it, see that there is nothing that makes going out. All right. Correct equipment temperatures, and all this with the laptop on for an hour and a half without blinking.
Well, that's it, I thought. My friend was telling me that time also did not see much time on, and also the first half hour or more, without connecting to the mains.
How beautiful everything looks. The next day I called my friend back. Same thing happens. This time it is he who comes to my house. He tells me he has endured 12 minutes of clock on before shutting off, despite being connected to the mains. So no, we connect the adapter, turn on the computer, and all perfect. Two hours tinkering with the team. Turning antivirus, video playing, sailing ... Not even half the problem.
My friend back home, turn on your computer, this time without connecting the adapter, and said that watching the clock, this time has reached 15 minutes. I begin to think that break loose some energy positive and encourages me the computer is running.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Where Do U Get The Pee Spitter In Poptropica
well say it is born to be grateful. If not go into the first group, but I have to thank our friends at the other side of the counter "for their assistance.
I recently changed teams. Finally I put aside my beloved Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, and I picked up a Q6600, armed to the eyebrows. The truth is that in many cases I have to process at once a large number of photos, and the difference is quite noticeable.
But what was, as I said on more than one occasion here, with my old Pentium 4 every day made more use of GNU / Linux Although I can not consider, much less, an expert user. With the change of equipment also was moving toward 64-bit distributions. I always used and OpenSuSE Ubuntu , and none of the two distributions came to settle on my computer.
did not know where the problem could come. With Ubuntu, the installer directly hung up when I was analyzing the hard drive partition to start, and OpenSuSE, could do the installation, but when trying to boot, gave an error to start the graphics engine (Xorg), and could only work in console mode.
Finally, after reading many times our friends in "Across the Counter" sold equipment and made many configurations with Linux, I decided to contact them asking for some help. I must say that I got some clues, well, I got the key to start working a bit and try to solve it. But the key to everything has gone a step further. Much of the problem seems to be that the chipset on my motherboard (Intel G33) is problematic when it comes to be recognized by some distributions. If we add an ATI, which, although much improved support in Linux, it's no wonder we have a dangerous cocktail.
But the people of "Across the Counter" once again came to my aid, and seeing that not putting the generic driver tore OpenSuSE invited me to discover Fedora (formerly Red Hat, but for the desktop), which has better support for hardware, and the truth is that has been like a breeze.
For all this, and the trouble of giving me some tips to fix the problem I had, and finally solve it thanks to them, from here I want to thank you for the help. In truth, I was pretty lost, and now I've found some. So glad.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Sample Of Welcome Speech
We're doing something wrong. Every day I am more convinced. Within companies, people no longer work, work numbers to which it presupposes a certain production. If that number does not have that certain production, replace it with another number. But of course, comes a time when we have so many numbers, but it was never controlled that number reaches that production budget, or that number is producing above what is assumed.
Well, it has reached a point where workers (commonly called Curritos) have realized that treat them as numbers, and did not like. In truth, as are these numbers
Okay, let's think a little. If instead of contracting directly with that individual (or individual, will not come from the ministry of equality to call me sexist), outsource it to my (company) is no longer a person is a resource that another company makes available to me . Ok, so I have no people, even numbers, now I have resources.
For the work I do now, fortunately or unfortunately, I have to attend certain meetings between my boss and the client, and you can not imagine the bad blood that courses through me when they start talking that if they 34 resources dedicated to 100% of the time, and 12 other resources that are ... bla bla bla.
Excuse me, gentlemen heads, I must go throw up a moment. I get too disgusted to go here and listen as they talk about us like a mere producer of lines of code. Moreover, speaking of my particular area ... I have come to call my own face resource! Are we crazy or what? Look, gentlemen, leaders of what they call business, good project, that no longer work in companies, work on projects, you want them to have one thing clear: I am a person!
The problem goes far beyond this. When working in a big company, people are usually subcontracted and people "home." No longer distinguishable, and both are mere resources to the project of the moment. But if there is a small distinction. Normally "the house" are educated, and even sometimes a living wage. The poor subcontractor and learn, and if you do not receive the salary that stretch. And if not, change the resource as if it had been damaged. Oh, by the way, I forgot that this poor outsourced, sometimes even he is more expensive to the company by paying the benefits has been that other company that has contracted, and which are not small.
Gentlemen, start treating us like people. Surely you would take more of a surprise. On the one hand, wonderful people find hidden within your organization. But if you only want to limit the work, probably, if they treat us like people, would find that many fewer people would now be the same amount of work, with a difference. These persons would be happy, and maybe even proud to work within your company, or within that particular project within your company. I challenge you to do the test.
PD-I burst. Listening to peers starting to talk also that the project should put more resources in a given area seem unreasonable to me. I hope this will change someday and companies have really become people working on them. "Utopian? maybe. Impossible? I think not.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Front License Plate Holder 2004 Honda Pilot
Today I will tell a story that actually happened to our fellow elrandu I invite him to complete this entry through the steps I have omitted, or telling a rugged detail.
The fact is that, as you know, before we worked together in a company call Cutrenation SA Each day, Cutrenation SA had to get rid of a few tons of spam before you start working, so elrandu decided to take a simple measure , after making a study of the activity was in the corporate network. Removed access to Internet sites which would take its contents the word "sex" and also was denied access to the site youtube. I assure you that watching network activity, it should greatly reduce the bandwidth occupation, and also increase productivity. In addition, a vast majority of spam that arrived came from a web assiduously visited by several individuals Cutrenation SA
quickly began appearing complaints from workers Cutrenation SA "We can not work." "Internet is fatal." "So no one can work." Phrases were heard. This brings me to the address of Cutrenation SA, which, oddly, became interested in the matter. elrandu explained the rules had been included in the access to the Internet. So far, everything is relatively normal. Until then, free will had prevailed for a long time Cutrenation SA, and the emergence of restrictions provoked complaints from some sectors can already imagine what they invested their time at work. Surprisingly
came a couple of days later. By direct order of the direction of Cutrenation SA had to delete any rule governing access to the Internet. That if the systems department in charge to take measures against the amount of spam coming into the company email ... Precisely why we were doing.