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We have a custom password database application. You request the to view a particular password or set of passwords, and then it goes through an approval chain to grant you access. Afterwards, you can see the password. Depending on the security requirements, these passwords are changing every 90-180 days so when you really need the password it's probably not the one you used last time.

I work with smart people...Lots of smart people who make critical components for computers. Trust me, you still need desktop management, with corporate standard images.

By corporate baseline, I imagine it's corporate standard image with the standard loadout of software (encryption, antivirus, office, etc)

It says it's powered by PCoIP. I've tested one of the PCoIP hardware thin clients before, and it works really well across a WAN. An employee ran from his home a graphically intensive 3D render application at 1920x1080 on one of the EVGA thin clients. We didn't test it across a 3G connection or anything like that.

At least 2010. I think before that.

> We concluded there was some firmware delay that caused the controller to time out some operation and call the drive 'failed'.

There is indeed a firmware setting on how long the drive spends checking for errors after it detects one, during which the drive doesn't respond. Sometimes this is too long for the RAID controller, so it drops it.

It used to be you could buy WD Caviar Black drives and tweak that timeout setting on the controller to effectively have WD RE drives (enterprise version of the WD Black drives). They removed that "feature" a few years ago.

Some of them do. I took one at Georgia Tech. I can't remember the course name, but it's listed as a CS class. It's taught by Merrick Furst.

The coursework involves basically going through the business model canvas, how to rapidly prototype, how to collect good feedback and other startup related topics. Somewhat more oriented towards "startups" versus "entrepreneurship", because that's Merrick's focus (see Flashpoint@Georgia Tech)

Wow, I can't believe how many times I've had to explain this to people as they log on to shared VNC servers. "I thought this had 16G of RAM free, I asked for a 16G machine!". "It does, stop trying to read top!"

Now I'll just point them to this website.

I would think the standard would be a breakup fee. The fee can be orders of magnitudes larger than any time involved (see AT&T & TMobile acquisition)

I currently live in Austin, and it's definitely great, but the traffic is killer if you're commuting. A couple of my coworkers live up north in the suburbs, and their commute is 30 min without traffic. With traffic, it's 1-1.5 hours. Live music everywhere though, and lots of interesting eats, like the Austin food trailers.

I like Atlanta mentioned elsewhere in the thread, having lived there for a number of years. Tons of cool stuff to do, and interesting concert venues like the Masquerade and Tabernacle. I lived in Midtown, but even if you don't want to live in the city the suburbs are nice.

People like to make fun of Houston for being a huge sprawl with no zoning regulations, but if you want Texas with more of an Atlanta feel, you'll get your pro sports teams, museums, and mega concert venues there. It's still close enough to go visit Austin for a weekend (only 3ish hours). Houston and Atlanta also have the advantage over Austin in terms of airports and where you can fly direct. Going from Austin means you burn more time with connections and layovers.

If you move to Texas from the south though, you're going to miss the tea. Tea here is cold and unsweetened by default. "Texas sweet tea" isn't as sweet as southern style sweet tea.

My worst horror story was a full server room shutdown. We killed servers, then the chillers, and then started work. About an hour after we started, we pulled our first floor tile to move some power cables. There was water under the floor! We spent the next few hours cleaning up all the water.

Apparently water kept flowing into the humidifier tray of the chiller, and the mechanical auto-shutoff never triggered. The pump didn't remove water from the tray because the power was off.

Facilities "fixed" the humidifier, but it still happened again when that circuit was cut off for work elsewhere in the building. No one caught the water overflow, and it flowed out down the conduits to the first floor. So we had flooding on 2 different floors from a single chiller.

I've got a standard resume in Word and PDF form. Name and contact stuff at the top, then education, work experience, and skills. Just a light horizontal line break between sections to give it some visual separation.

I would hope that the bullet points on my resume stands out enough, having spent considerable time going over all my accomplishments, selecting and combining the right things to demonstrate my skills, and giving the right quantitative details.

In comparison, my LinkedIn, which seems to be a CV for most folks these days, is really scarce. I've intentionally left it vague because I'm concerned about running afoul of disclosure agreements. I'm wondering if I should revisit it to spruce it up.

Two things that I cook that make a ton and will freeze are baked ziti (or lasagna, ziti is a bit easier on prep), and Japanese curry. Prep on the curry takes a while because there's a lot of vegetable chopping, but cost per serving is pretty low.

Walk down the frozen section and see what they're selling. It'll all freeze well if you make it yourself.

I also enjoy tonkatsu, because it's basically like flour, egg, panko, fry. By the time you've done all that your rice is cooked. Good with either pork or chicken. Tonkatsu sauce is awesome on rice. Leftover rice you can make fried rice out of with any leftover meat.

I use a mid-2010 13" MBP, and a Core i7 custom desktop from Nov 2008 (Vista, then 7).

One caveat is that MAC addresses are not guaranteed to be globally unique. In practice they may be, but with sufficient amounts of similar hardware you can get duplicates.

Use the MAC if you're looking to make it silent. Use the free registration if you also want to harvest emails for your marketing people.

Doesn't the new OS have memory compression so that you can run more apps with the same amount of memory?

The only downside with splitting the membership is that only the primary Prime account gets the free streaming and books for Kindle. Still a good deal though.

"Programming Amazon EC2" mentioned using the "Alestic" Ubuntu image rather the one from Canonical directly, but it didn't elaborate on who/what alestic was. I appreciate the information and will definitely look over the site. I already see on the front page that there's a new command line rather than the one the book was using.

It's a horrible sin for people who have to debug other people's code (read: team projects). Normally this team will have style guidelines on how to test, what to test, etc.

My view is that for personal projects and limited scope code you don't have to write any tests. I'm part of an operations team and nothing from the immediate team has test coverage. It's all Perl and shell scripts. Never have I thought "We need more test coverage", and I'm pretty sure only 1-2 people know of TDD. By the time you write the tests (for whatever reason it always takes me forever to get a test harness working with my code and IDE), you could have finished the code, tested it manually, and used it. If anything, I'd go back and write the test coverage before you redesign it, so you ensure functionality is the same before and after.

It's called the "serial" comma, or "Oxford" comma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

Some style guides promote use of it, some do not.

I know 2 people in GE manufacturing, and they enjoy working there. The benefits are good (vacation, healthcare, GE discounts), as well as learning and advancement (one has gotten some good raises and promotions).

As far as the software goes I'm not sure, but I've had a few friends who interned with "big" names - FB, Google, Microsoft, while I went with kind of a no-name. The experience is what you make of it, and what you want your career to be. Do you want to be in the Energy sector? Do you want to work for large software projects? Enterprise companies have one thing startups do not have -- cash to buy the latest, greatest, and coolest IT equipment, and the scale to have lines on your resume like "Saved $X million by implementing solution XYZ" while you learn the industry standard equipment. On the flip side, they're more bureaucratic, slow moving, and you won't get to work with the latest shiny. For example, my company is just getting in to "Big Data", and we don't have any internal NoSQL solutions. There's about a 5+ year time lag before new tech goes from tech companies into enterprise from my estimates.

You have to consider what you want to do after school, and if these internships are helping you get there. If you're not sure what you're intending to do, have you had another internship, or do you plan to have another before you graduate? If so, consider doing something radically different to gain exposure to different things.

You can always negotiate salary.

My (US) 2012 Mazda is 5k for Schedule A and 6.5k for Schedule B. Maybe high end cars have higher intervals?

Where are sources of carbon monoxide poisoning? The only two off the top of my head are near the garage and the fireplace. You could augment this system with 2 more plug-in type CO monitors that would put them lower on the wall. For any other room that doesn't have a CO monitor right now this is just a bonus.

Austin, TX. Dominos, et all are like $10 for a large.

The premium pizzas are $17.99+ for a large cheese.

Here's my IT version of "Out of Office"

* People will seek you out if they think they need you urgently. It doesn't matter there's a 24 hour help desk available by phone or IM to answer the same question.

* Colleagues will IM you every time they see you online, even if it's 1am and you only signed on because you're on-call and need to fix something urgently.

* Some issues resolve themselves if you don’t answer straight away, but they won't tell you, so you still spend time answering them.

* Email is a chore to many people, so they don't bother to read what you said, even if it helps them out.

One experiment OP could try is sleeping in a room other than the bedroom. Kind of goes along with the recliner idea, but maybe there's an association with the bedroom and the and the anxiety.

Does the problem persist on travel in hotels or anything?

> did not motivate or give a good feeling.

I use pen/paper todos. It feels great when I can cross one off.

If something is too large, I break out the task underneath, so I can see the larger goal I'm trying to accomplish but still have workable chunks.

If you want to go more of the Psychology route:

Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely, he has some TED talks as well) http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...

Influence, the Science of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) http://www.amazon.com/Influence-ebook/dp/B002BD2UUC

>It also diminishes the rate at which they will use vacation time because they can't accurately estimate how often they'll get sick.

Which leads to "use it or lose it" come December, when your entire company stops working because no one is in the office.

Same here. The work has to get done, but nothing is so critical that it can't wait a few days. If it is, we'll get someone else to do it.

You know what's even more soul crushing? Unassigned cubicles. Every day you come in, potentially to a new cube. Every day you leave, and it's exactly like how you found it that morning when you came in. There's a number of large companies moving to this, not just for people who are frequently out of the office, but the engineering and operations staff as well.

That's soul crushing. I could work at an open office desk with the noise (it's pretty noisy in my cube), at least it's my own personal space.