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THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by vision-master » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 14:29:58
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'I') hear you. When I was working with Clipper, I built a data-driven reporting system to get over the 640kb memory limit at work. My boss said I should have sold it as a generic reporting tool (which it was), but I was young and couldn't be bothered. It's a shame when youthful ingenuity goes to waste...
I developed some Dbase tools in my department of property management with the County, but they were so paranoid with control, they bought some fooked up program instead. No one implemented it. I warned these upper level managers that it would take a couple of years just to imput the data. Junk in, junk out.
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by Ainan » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 14:57:14
Wow this thread got bumped just in time. I was going to make a thread asking some IT related questions to peak oilers but I might as well do it here.
Incidently, I have a Dbase III book I sit my unused coffee cups on at work. That's all it's good for
So yes, I'm a young pup, working as a software developer for my University placement. In the last few days there has been talk of a job once I finish University, assuming the economy is still turning then. The fantastic thing about this possibility of a job is I may be able to take it in any country in the World! Also, I could work at home half the time and thus settle down in my Australian outback doomstead! Mawahaha!
Of course I have to get a job offer first. So my first question to you all is how do I go about improving my chances of getting a job offer? I already do a 10 hour day, more than I am employed for. I get along well with everyone, I am quick to pick things up and get 'results'. What more can I do?
Also what do you think the 'growth' areas of IT will be in the next 5 years in regards to peak oil? So I can get into them...
I see telecommuting becomming more prevalent.
Incidently, I have a Dbase III book I sit my unused coffee cups on at work. That's all it's good for
So yes, I'm a young pup, working as a software developer for my University placement. In the last few days there has been talk of a job once I finish University, assuming the economy is still turning then. The fantastic thing about this possibility of a job is I may be able to take it in any country in the World! Also, I could work at home half the time and thus settle down in my Australian outback doomstead! Mawahaha!
Of course I have to get a job offer first. So my first question to you all is how do I go about improving my chances of getting a job offer? I already do a 10 hour day, more than I am employed for. I get along well with everyone, I am quick to pick things up and get 'results'. What more can I do?
Also what do you think the 'growth' areas of IT will be in the next 5 years in regards to peak oil? So I can get into them...
I see telecommuting becomming more prevalent.
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by davep » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 15:26:32
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ainan', 'W')ow this thread got bumped just in time. I was going to make a thread asking some IT related questions to peak oilers but I might as well do it here.
Incidently, I have a Dbase III book I sit my unused coffee cups on at work. That's all it's good for
So yes, I'm a young pup, working as a software developer for my University placement. In the last few days there has been talk of a job once I finish University, assuming the economy is still turning then. The fantastic thing about this possibility of a job is I may be able to take it in any country in the World! Also, I could work at home half the time and thus settle down in my Australian outback doomstead! Mawahaha!
Of course I have to get a job offer first. So my first question to you all is how do I go about improving my chances of getting a job offer? I already do a 10 hour day, more than I am employed for. I get along well with everyone, I am quick to pick things up and get 'results'. What more can I do?
Also what do you think the 'growth' areas of IT will be in the next 5 years in regards to peak oil? So I can get into them...
I see telecommuting becomming more prevalent.
Incidently, I have a Dbase III book I sit my unused coffee cups on at work. That's all it's good for
So yes, I'm a young pup, working as a software developer for my University placement. In the last few days there has been talk of a job once I finish University, assuming the economy is still turning then. The fantastic thing about this possibility of a job is I may be able to take it in any country in the World! Also, I could work at home half the time and thus settle down in my Australian outback doomstead! Mawahaha!
Of course I have to get a job offer first. So my first question to you all is how do I go about improving my chances of getting a job offer? I already do a 10 hour day, more than I am employed for. I get along well with everyone, I am quick to pick things up and get 'results'. What more can I do?
Also what do you think the 'growth' areas of IT will be in the next 5 years in regards to peak oil? So I can get into them...
I see telecommuting becomming more prevalent.
Improving your chances is related to the second question, I think. If you have a skill that is in demand, you will improve your chances.
It was easy for me in the old days. I chose the PC world while everyone else went to mainframes.
I've been a jack of all trades, which helped me to become an International troubleshooter, helping so-called experts at client sites, no matter where they stood on the OSI model.
At your stage of development, it's probably best to find a niche with a view to broadening your skills in the future. The problem is that it's getting harder to see where the money will be.
Unlike in my day, it's more difficult to see where things will go. Things like document and records management are becoming prevalent, but it's dull as dishwater. There are niches in huge databases that the likes of Oracle and SQL Server can't handle. I worked last year on a 120 billion row table for telephony for the police et al, due to recent rules. Look at Teradata, and emerging companies such as Neteeza, Dataupia etc.
It's pretty hard to recommend something without knowing your background, tbh.
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by errorist » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 20:23:38
Probably missing something done in the way...
Started programming when was 13. Programmable calculators, anybody remembers them?
And then got ZX Spectrum clone (assembled from modules myself). Wrote couple primitive games for it. Learned a lot of mathematical 3D concepts. Assembler, BASIC. Cassette recorder as memory peripheral sucked big time
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Then ASSEMBLER on a mainframe ES EVM (Soviet made IBM 360 clone) when studying computers academically.
Then there was PC summoned and Turbo Pascal, PC Assembler.
FoxPRO, DBase, Visual Basic (Excel)
Borland Delphi, Microsoft SQL, ORACLE - Stock Exchange System
Python, C - Internet Banking
Strange propriatary dialects of Basic and COBOL in old banking/securities systems.
Machine code for some industrial controllers.
MySQL, Oracle, PHP, Python, Perl, Linux Shell, C, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML - various Internet portals and pages.
Realising, that this intense programming life started to slowly kill me with side effects I moved from programming to CAD and arhcitecture, drawing various 2D/3D stuff (buildings, site planning, furniture)
GDL scripting for ArchiCAD - various smart 2D and 3D objects.
About computer viruses - idle brains count rising, maybe something destructive is summoned out of the blue.
Denial of Service and spam are used as warfare already and indeed there is increasing need for zombie computers in the botnet army.
Started programming when was 13. Programmable calculators, anybody remembers them?
And then got ZX Spectrum clone (assembled from modules myself). Wrote couple primitive games for it. Learned a lot of mathematical 3D concepts. Assembler, BASIC. Cassette recorder as memory peripheral sucked big time
.
Then ASSEMBLER on a mainframe ES EVM (Soviet made IBM 360 clone) when studying computers academically.
Then there was PC summoned and Turbo Pascal, PC Assembler.
FoxPRO, DBase, Visual Basic (Excel)
Borland Delphi, Microsoft SQL, ORACLE - Stock Exchange System
Python, C - Internet Banking
Strange propriatary dialects of Basic and COBOL in old banking/securities systems.
Machine code for some industrial controllers.
MySQL, Oracle, PHP, Python, Perl, Linux Shell, C, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML - various Internet portals and pages.
Realising, that this intense programming life started to slowly kill me with side effects I moved from programming to CAD and arhcitecture, drawing various 2D/3D stuff (buildings, site planning, furniture)
GDL scripting for ArchiCAD - various smart 2D and 3D objects.
About computer viruses - idle brains count rising, maybe something destructive is summoned out of the blue.
Denial of Service and spam are used as warfare already and indeed there is increasing need for zombie computers in the botnet army.
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by da23 » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 20:41:30
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('errorist', 'C')assette recorder as memory peripheral sucked big time .
.Yes but, didn't you love the sound loading that cassette ?
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by ColossalContrarian » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 20:59:05
I’ve run into downadup once in the wild. It was very easy to remove, malwarebytes cleaned it easily.
The most common virus I run into is Fake.Alert. I’ve been billing aprox $800 a week in fake.alert virus cleaning since December. $800 = 7-8 pc’s.
Not sure what the plan is for fake.alert but from what I’ve seen firsthand it’s EVERYWHERE!!!
The most common virus I run into is Fake.Alert. I’ve been billing aprox $800 a week in fake.alert virus cleaning since December. $800 = 7-8 pc’s.
Not sure what the plan is for fake.alert but from what I’ve seen firsthand it’s EVERYWHERE!!!
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Re: THE MicroSoft Windows Thread (merged)
by errorist » Tue 27 Jan 2009, 21:07:10
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('da23', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('errorist', 'C')assette recorder as memory peripheral sucked big time .
.Yes but, didn't you love the sound loading that cassette ?
Yes, the sound of "another misread"
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