It is difficult for me to not pick up the phone these days and make an “I told you so” call to a past client. This guy was absolutely baptized by Microsoft. We were developing some software on Linux and I cannot tell you the number of times I heard “this would take me 15 minutes in DOT NET.” Naturally I responded “it would run on only one machine, yours, the last Windows user in … Windows 8 – Vista Part DeuxRead more
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InfoSys Nailed Again!
http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-lawsuit-alleges-infosys-misuses-us-visas-130747618–finance.html?_esi=1 This time by an account manager! If anyone should have know about the criminal activity it should have been the account manager.
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There Never Was a Skills Gap
It’s quite refreshing to find out that now even the Wall Street Journal is supporting the very statement I have made for years. There is not now, nor was there ever a skills gap. I love this quote from the article: I had an employer write to me the other day saying they had a skills gap, and they really did. It wasn’t wages, because they did market wage surveys, and they were paying what … There Never Was a Skills GapRead more
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Why the LS-120 Still Survives
I’ve written about the LS-120 on this blog before but I thought about it again today. You see, yet another Micro Center sales paper showed up. There were big sections for USB flash drives and SD cards, but nothing listed for organizers. I paid a visit to eBay to find a bunch of SD travel cases aimed at family vacationers, but nothing for desktop storage and organization. There was absolutely nothing for USB flash drives … Why the LS-120 Still SurvivesRead more
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It May Not Be Your RAM
Several months ago it seemed like my monitor quit working after a reboot. It had been working just fine before that, so, naturally I was perplexed. My ViewSonic VG2030wm had never failed me before, and it “seemed” like it should be working. I swapped out the video card for another card with DVI port and had some odd display. OpenSuSE told me the monitor was not responding with its type which seemed quite strange. Both … It May Not Be Your RAMRead more