@RobertMoir Ah, got ya. We're putting i5s in our labs and we typically cycle the last generation to the general use labs where kids basically youtube between classes
I've got a Core2 Duo 2.4; with plenty of RAM and a fast SSD it's plenty enough to keep up with me for all but the most intensive operations. I like it.
actually it was scary when we last interviewed for a senior programmer. We had a few code fragments in a test, and asked people to write solutions for problems and we had a freehand section to write fizzbuzz in whatever language they chose
considering it was for a senior role, I was shocked how many applicants turned out to be even crappier at writing code than myself (sysadmin) and the other technical interviewer (a dba)
You should probably start them with Hello World on day one, but FizzBuzz should be day two or so... If they can't pickup for and if in two days, they're screwed.
I weirded-out a couple of people once implementing fizzbuzz using a pair of counter variables instead of using a modulus. It just seemed natural to me to do it that way. (In fact, it made me think back to programming in assembler and avoiding MUL / DIV operations because of the excessive number of cycles they consume...)
I once wrote some code to display a string that had a bug and displayed the string backwards. I "fixed" the code and discovered it was 3 bytes longer. I put the code back the way it was and reversed the string to be displayed. Problem solved and I saved 3 bytes! Woo-hoo!
that's what kills me @voretaq7, we had people interviewing for a senior programmer post who literally couldn't answer it, even when they were allowed to pick a language of their choice. What I was hoping for was a bit of recognition of how simple it was and a discussion of how they built programs and what I got instead was a mountain that 80% of the applicants couldn't get over. And remember this is the interviews after we weeded out the obvious idiots and time wasters from their resumes!
Embedded systems programming is way above my level, though i started playing with ZX81s with 1k of memory as a kid and moved on to to 48k spectrums and thought i'd hit the memory jackpot
@tom there were several people who couldn't do it and not one of them could really articulate why they struggled. They seemed to think i'd set them a hard problem and were quite offended that we thought it was easy and even more so when we solved it on paper in front of them
i think (and i hope i'm not offending anyone here) whether or not you like "playing" with computers, whether coding, messing around with setting up systems or even just fiddling with hardware is a good test of whether or not you're going to be great at your job.
i'd agree... having said that i find the more responsibility and money i get the more paper i have to push and the more work i have to pass down to others
we have a "technical services manager", my boss; then a "Senior systems engineer", me; then a "systems engineer" and a "systems operator" in my team and 3 helpdesk technicians who answer to the manager
it feels like it sometimes when i'm interviewing coders and going to meetings about our "building management system" which suddenly became IT's problem the day our site team found out they could plug it into the network and control it via a webppage
@TomOConnor His titles include Chief Warlock of the Brothers of Darkness, Lord of the Thirteen Hells, Master of the Bones, Emperor of the Black, Lord of the Undead, Lord of the Dance (nominated by himself on a whim), Mistress of Magma (gained by killing the former holder of the title), and mayor of a little village up the coast.
Well, A local hosting company (which will remain nameless) has an opening for a jr admin... but they owe my fathers HVAC company a decent amount so I can't work there :( POOP!
although if you would like to be nominated for the Portions of Hell awards for 2011 all you need to do is mismanage a few projects, down a couple of core routers, and if possible totally bugger DNS for at least one continent.
@MJ . . . . and next because people keep accidentally zapping their X sessions we will epoxy all the Control, Alt and Backspace keys so they can't be pressed?
again, can't we just eject people from the profession for gross stupidity? PLEASE? I promise I'll aim for the pillow truck when I toss them off the roof :-)
@coredump Welcome to the party! You're a bit late, but there's plenty of crap wrong with Drupal, so you'll be able to catch up on your hate and Drupal-bashing in no time!
after the dev commented half code and disabled all modules and enabled one by one, he discovered that the responsible was a module that simply puts a caption on photos that are on a js caroussel on the front page
@coredump similar thing happened to me with a Joomla install last week. Gantry module died, knocked out the whole website. Joomla's PHP error reporting was set to maximum. NO errors printed to the page.
If you hate Drupal, switch to Joomla and then you'll appreciate Drupal better.
@Zoredache My suspicion is that each CMS is actually awesome for a certain type of content delivery situation, its just people's faults for trying to shoehorn their preference into every situation. That and buggy developers not making plugins/extensions to spec. Oh, and misconfigurations by noobs. And leprechauns.
So, we use Squid 3 here (3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4), pretty standard configuration (no dansguardian or similar) + NTLM authentication with LDAP background, circa 1000 users on a busy day, and our acls reference some external files (allowed/blocked sites/ip addresses).
On Squid 2.X we used to be capab...
@coredump Solution: 1. Make your own CMS that doesn't suck 2. Make Open Source CMS Empire 3. Fund the development of light sabers 4. Help the rebels fight the empire 5. Profit!
