At the end of this week I?ll have finished my 90-day probation at my new job. That means all of my benefits will kick in. One of these is access to the company ?fitness center?. The owner of the company made a HUGE deal about the fact that the fitness center was reserved for the use of ?senior...
The company I work for has a small (staff of 6) remote terminal in Memphis. They're having a world of trouble with their computers. They're hooked up by way of Bell South DSL and running an assortment of low to mid level (Wal-Mart) PCs. I suspect their problem is systems horked up with mal-ware...
If you're asking if I have "scientific data" to support the fact that a truck uses more fuel with a car drafting then no I don't.
I did however get pretty good grades in physics and I can say with a high degree of certainty that it takes more fuel to move 84,000 lbs (80,000 lb truck / trailer...
First off I work for a trucking company (IT Director). We have around 400 trucks on the road. I hear from our drivers every day and they have some fairly "colorful" things to say about tailgaters.
The one thing that hasn't been discussed here is basic physics. It takes X amount of energy...
your age at the time: 49
how it started: 12+ year SO moved out March 13, 07
how it ended: It hasn't yet.
afterthoughts: I'll let you know in a few weeks... months... years...
if there is cellular access it a pretty big "IF" and the one that has me the most concerned. We have people on the ground there now and I know that their Nextel service is pretty "spotty" at best.
I appreciate the effort. If you can hook me up with someone who knows this stuff really well...
I'm IT Manager for a smallish trucking company. We run only "food - grade" tankers. We've just landed a contract with FEMA to run loads of water into hurricane effected areas without potable water. We're rolling 75 rigs first thing Tuesday morning. We're also sending one, maybe two of our...
I don't even want to THINK about another focking hurricane coming through here.
Find yourselves a Central Florida map that shows the paths of Charlie, Frances and Jean. Look at the name of the town where all 3 crossed. It's Lake Wales. That's where I live. A little south of Lake Wales...
The one on the left is a PL259. Commonly used in UHF equipment and CB radios.
Do a google search on PL259 and you'll find a number of places selling adapters.
Depending on what you want to plug it in to you might be better off cutting off the existing plug and installing the one you need...
Business casual... Dockers & oxford shirts. No ties. Fridays are jeans & "Izod" type shirts. "Nice" tennis shoes or OK on Fridays.
About the same as my last job. I'm REAL happy about the "no ties" part... I HATE wearing a tie!!!
Yesterday I had a nice interview and lunch with the owner of the company.
He made me an offer that was a significant raise over my previous job plus a pretty decent benefits package.
I accepted his offer and begin work on Tuesday, June 1st.
11 months to the day from when I was laid off from...
I've carried one of These for about 9 years. I'm on my second one (lost the first one).
GREAT German steel. It's a bear to sharpen but it holds an edge really well. Yes... It's razor sharp...
Ok since you asked nicely I?ll give you the ?nickel? tour?
The first thing you need to know is that I don?t have a dedicated room for the ?home theater?. That being the case the ?decorator?s? (the SO) wishes had to be considered. When she moved in it was pretty apparent that she didn?t care for...
dman,
The good news... Lump sum!!
The bad news... 27% tax rate on severance packages... OUCH!!!
Already have the $$$ It's in the bank. Broke it into 3 seperate CDs at 60 day rate, 90 day rate and 120 day rate. That keeps me from pissing a bunch of it away on A/V equipment or some manner of...
Being the eternal skeptic that I am... I'll believe it when I cash the first paycheck and it doesn't bounce.
At this point I've got meetings (read interviews) tomorrow and Friday.
We'll see...
I'm betting that the "bath robe + daytime TV + beer" routine is still in go mode.
Not a bad plan...
I can not FVCKING believe this. I'm seriously looking forward to taking at least a month off and just relaxing, then going back to school for a couple of terms to finish up a long overdue degree, but NOOOOO... In the course of 2 hours this afternoon I get not one but two seperate offers.
On one...
Stark,
We're (oh I guess I should say "they're") in the citrus business. At the point at which I was hired we had 2 offices about 3 hours apart. The local office had 25 "in-office" staff and 60 or so field workers. The other office had 10 "in-office" and 30 or so in the field. I supported the...
Spooner,
6 months at full pay + 3 weeks unused vacation + 10 unused sick days + 5 unused personal days + a cash payout equal to 6 months of COBRA payments + acrued bonus = just a bit shy of 10 months at full pay. Add to that 39 weeks of unemployment payments at $275.00 per week and you've got a...
It's been a good run... 5 years and 1 month as net-admin/user support for a small family owned company.
As they say... All good things come to an end.
The downsizing and layoffs actually began March 2001. Between then and now staff has been reduced from around 120 to 6 (me included). Frankly...
One line with two number means you have a service called "distinctive ring". The fax machine needs to be "taught" what the distinctive ring is (usually a quick ring-ring every 5 to 6 seconds as opposed to a single ring every 6 seconds).
Look through the menus for any mention of "distinctive...
Spokane to Calgary is ~428 miles or 16 to 18 hours depending on how you drive. Calgary to Missoula is ~516 miles or 18 to 20 hours. Missoula to Spokane is ~198 miles or 3 to 4 hours.
Should be a really nice 7 to 8 day trip. Go for it!!!
We've done several northwsest driving trips. All of them...
I'm waiting for the office manager to come into my office and give me the news any time now. I'm a net admin whose seen the local workgroup go from 60 people down to 4 (including me) in the last 12 months. I can't believe they're still paying me to sit here and do NOTHING.
The bad news... The...
Hey... I knew a girl who's last name was Neff, once... No twice... no... HMMMM??? wonder what ever became of her??? Oh nevermind... different subject...
That was LONG before the internet as we know it today. Like 71 or 72. "Neffing" or "being Neffed" means something ENTIRELY different to me...
Sorry about the layoff. Lousy time of the year too. Of course there's NEVER a GOOD time of the year to lose ones job.
It looks like I'm going to survive until past the 1st of January. That's REALLY good news cause it adds vacation time (2 weeks) plus personal days (5) plus sick days (6) to the...
I took mine in April, May & June of this year. Eight exams to get both MCSA & MCSE. None of my exams were adaptive. Of them 5 were scored and 3 were pass-fail.
I understand from some of the other folks in class with me that the A+ and Network+ exams have gone adaptive. One guy finished his A+...
Their exchange policy does NOT extend to power tools though. I took in my 7 -8 year old "Craftsman" cordless drill and was told that there was nothing that they could do. I kept the batteries and told the guy to trhow it away.
NoxPT,
Hasn't anybody told you yet that if you hang out here at Anandtech you'll end up a propeller-head like your old man???
Remember... You've been warned!
In terms of "experience" I'm really hoping that 7+ years as a Novell admin & NT4 admin will be worth something. The certs were simply to validate the knowledge I already have.
Yes I already have my A+... Got it in 97.
MCDBA is looking pretty good to me right now. I've always liked messing...
I just (as in last Friday) my MCSA & MCSE. I ended up taking 8 tests in 10 weeks.
The morning of the first 2 (070-210 & 070-215) I was a walking raw nerve. I didn't get much sleep the night before worrying about the exams. I ended up scoring an 880 on both. After that I realized that I really...
Another Central Floridian... It shook the windows at our office a few minutes ago. One of these tays I'm going to be outside with a pair of binoculars and watch it sail by...
Some of the questions this morning were just unbeleivable...
Back a hundred years or so ago, when I was attending the first college (of 6) that threw me out I had a composition professor whos favorite "red pen" comment on your paper was "TOO WORDY -10". He would have had a field day with some...
I don't know about anyone else but for me getting the MCSE was all about validation of the skills that I already have.
I don't think I would have paid for the course just to get the paper. As it turned out I was offered the training at no cost by way of a state grant. I was offered A+, MCSE...
nitemare,
There is a XP cert. It's a seperate certification from W2K but uses the same core tests EXCEPT... you take 70-270 instead of 20-210. I'm told that your card will say something like "MCSE - Windows 2000" vs "MCSE - Windows XP". The bottom line is that 6 out of 7 tests are the same as...
I hope you're right about the CCNA.
Yea 216 was a B!TCH... I read ALL of the MOC and we had a textbook for the class that we had to read.
Is using braindumps cheating??? I don't think so. I just looked at them as another study tool. The cert means nothing if you don't have at least SOME...
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