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Gartner: Old Geezers can't handle IT
Oct 9th article in Computerworld outlines Gartner's attitude to old people in IT: we don't know s**t about IT and apparently we need twenty-something whippersnappers to tell us about new technologies, while we drive our old fuddy 'sedans' and see to o
Tags: career, Dr Dij, Gartner Inc., gartner says baby boomers are old geezers, information technology, old geezer
Discussion threads 2006-10-10

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All in favor of workday naps, say Aye!
Nay!I have a hard enough time shutting my brain off to go to sleep at night without throwing a nap into the mix.NayIt would interfere with the naps I already take >:DYes, nap.I need a nap. Actually, I use to know people that would go to their car at...
Tags: droolin, nap, Nay
Discussion threads 2007-03-20
Can you name that virus?
Hello: A while back, maybe 6 months or so, I read about a virus[?] that prevented the installation of virus checkers. If you can come up with the name for this particular piece of malware, I shall be so grateful as to post 500 points for you in Support Republic-Other...
Tags: antivirus, gbrownlee, security, virus, Windows Installer
Discussion threads 2005-03-02
Head's up! TR will be down for approx 15 minutes tonight 8/21/07
This planned outage will occur at approximately05:30 p.m. US/Eastern time04:30 p.m. US/Central03:30 p.m. US/Mountain02:30 p.m. US/Pacific09:30 p.m. GMT09:30 p.m. UCTAll TR employees will be dressed in pirate costumes during the outage. All complaints must be submitted in "pirate speak" to ensure rapid service.Arrrrgh! ;-)Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until...
Tags: Piracy, beth.blakely@..., GMT 09:30
Discussion threads 2007-08-21
American Workers: Read this story and answer two questions
Story:http://biz.yahoo.com/special/pf011607_article1.htmlQuestions:What's missing? What are the possible unintended consequences?(My "answers" will follow.)I agreeBuy gold!LuckilyI made all my investments thru the company I worked for. I was able to invest 10.5 percent of my gross income (3.5 percent paid by employer) in stocks and mutual funds. I did this for twenty...
Tags: 401(k) plan, career, maxwell edison, off-topic, Social Security, tax
Discussion threads 2007-01-16
Let me be the first. . . .
Let me be the first. . . ....to wish you a happy birthday.Let me be the first....to have a good laugh about it!Only kidding :pplanning anything special?Nope. I don't celebrate birthdays or Christmas.But I have received some lovely greetings from femail friends in other countries.All my life I have...
Tags: Let, birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Discussion threads 2006-04-08
In 20 years
In 20 yearsIn 20 years you'll be crying about how valuable your work experience is and how all these young pups think they know more than they really do, and how they have no work ethic blah blah blah. Putz.Ageism? Good Idea?Do we really want to have old geeks...
Tags: Development tools, programmer, 20-Year
Discussion threads 2005-05-07
Friday Yuk. As OZ has failed to live up to one of his New Years Resolutions
Friday Yuk. As OZ has failed to live up to one of his New Years ResolutionsI got this one sent to me by one of the TR Peers and loved it.A father asked his 10-year-old son if he knew aboutthe birds and the bees. â?oI don't want to know!" the...
Tags: bird, dead bird
Discussion threads 2005-01-07
Cat5 Wiring Problem
Cat5 Wiring ProblemI recently wired my house in North Florida with riser-rated cat5 cabling. The cable was pulled through the walls, across the attic, to an 8-port switch in an unfinished bonus room above my garage.Everything works fine during the warm months, but when the overnight temperature drops near...
Tags: cable, cat5, cold calling, continuity, egray@..., hardware, it management, networking, wiring
Discussion threads 2006-02-05
Geek Trivia: Board to tears
Geek Trivia: Board to tearsarticle rootChicago BlizzardThe snows were heavy in Chicago in January, 1978, but the "Great Chicago Blizzard" was in January, 1979. It shut down the city and cost Mayor Bilandic his job.I remember CBBS. I used it in the 1980 timeframe with my Commodore PET.Not a...
Tags: BBS, BBSes, Blizzard, board, Chicago Blizzard, Fidonet, randy280z
Discussion threads 2005-02-16
New book tells tale of the Yettie: The Yuppie of the Internet age
Meet the Yetties, the culture of geeks who are driving the dot-com industry. In this interview, author Sam Sifton discusses the humorous cast of characters in his new book A Field Guide to the Yettie: America's Young Entrepreneurial Technocrats.You’re probably familiar with the word Yuppie Young Urban Professional, a term...
Tags: Venture capital, Investment, Dana Norton, Internet, Sam Sifton, Yettie, Yetties, Most Yetties
Technical articles 2000-12-12
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