What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
Running stuff old for ten years is... sad but reality. But starting the education to support something that old means your career can't last more than a year or two, if that, since you have to add in the time to get up to speed, get the education, land a job, get trained.... fifteen years old is pushing the limits even for most government. Sure, somewhere is going to go to twenty, even twenty five years, but at best that gives you a ten year career life, a very sad ten years always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But worse, a maximum of ten years where you are both the newbie with the least experience in the field (as every highly experienced person doing this since the 1990s is still looking for that work) and the foolish guy who went into a dead field long after it was dead.
The last job I worked at used a Student Information System that was installed in 1984 when I got there (it finally went away ~2005!).... The Director of IT at the time had spent so much time in the code that when the company had a problem they couldn't figure out, they woudl contract her out to fix the problems! (I find this hillarious!)... The product... was Jenzabar's POISE.
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Just getting caught up, so many posts!
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Working as early as I can so that I can finish my task for today!
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Someone gave me some fresh fruits!
Pineapple and Papaya -
We have a pineapple delivery coming today!
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In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
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At least the over-moderation issues have been seriously curtailed, I've not seen a bad mod in months now. Very happy about that, even with me posting more heavily than ever. But this one really needs someone to step in and delete that post (and maybe that account.)
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
We have a pineapple delivery coming today!
Pineapple Express?
Indeed!
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@scottalanmiller said:
In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
I think I can see why it hasn't been deleted/moderately moderated.
However I still think that it is definitely not contributing to the topic. It seems more like flame-bait.I flagged a similar comment from someone else last week and that got toasted.
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Just lost power. Who knows how long we will be offline. Phones nearly dead too
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
I think I can see why it hasn't been deleted/moderately moderated.
However I still think that it is definitely not contributing to the topic. It seems more like flame-bait.I flagged a similar comment from someone else last week and that got toasted.
If it had mentioned something political, especially about anyone named "Bush", it would get removed immediately... just like mine do. Seriously, one of the mods has a total hard-on to delete anti-right wing comments, happens every time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just lost power. Who knows how long we will be offline. Phones nearly dead too
Aww
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That was fast, power is back on.
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@scottalanmiller Better put your phone on a surge protector or slaptop and charge it, lol.
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We need to invest in a bunch of batteries. Not sure where you can buy those around here, though.
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@RojoLoco said:
@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
I think I can see why it hasn't been deleted/moderately moderated.
However I still think that it is definitely not contributing to the topic. It seems more like flame-bait.I flagged a similar comment from someone else last week and that got toasted.
If it had mentioned something political, especially about anyone named "Bush", it would get removed immediately... just like mine do. Seriously, one of the mods has a total hard-on to delete anti-right wing comments, happens every time.
It got nuked now, just took a few hours.
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So much use of apostrophes to pluralize... I want to punch the OP. I'm resisting tearing him a new one on the thread.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1232242-managed-services-providers-pro-s-and-cons
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@scottalanmiller said:
We need to invest in a bunch of batteries. Not sure where you can buy those around here, though.
Any chance to add a mini solar charger to the gear list? they aren't the fastest to charge,.. but they will function as a stop-gap measure:
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Great idea, I'm going to look into that. Something large enough to charge a laptop, maybe! That would be good to use full time, actually. Electricity down here is super expensive and anything to offset it would be good.