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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is that one of those questions like, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
No, it isn't. The question and its answers are fully accessible by an intellectual thought process, no zen intuition required.
Working in a small company, I - a software developer - have to do software tests, too. And it's true: I spend waste a lot of my time for setting up the test environment. It's really fun to install the latest version of our products on a server where my colleagues had played before: development versions of our Windows services installed on the "desktop" of the user and other such WTFs. How much time gets lost for finding out such "features" and cleaning them up before I can actually do any tests...
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: How much time gets lost for finding out such "features" and cleaning them up before I can actually do any tests...
Do a clean enviroment once, backup the server with Ghost or acronis and next time don't give a crap about your collegues, restore backup, install what you need and for the rest... GTFO 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Do a clean enviroment once
Good idea. But I have no administrative priviledges on the esx server. And my boss fails with such simple tasks of course (actually he'd be capable of performing them, but why should he ever bother to do something correctly?).
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: but why should he ever bother to do something correctly?
You are right, if he did, then he would not be a "boss" 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Once at an Amazon offsite, managers had the reasonable-sounding suggestion that employees should be increasing communication with each other. To their surprise, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos stood up and announced, "No, communication is terrible!" We might have to kick someone off the team. I don't want to order the third pizza.
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Janet Choi wrote: As organizational psychologist and expert on team dynamics J. Richard Hackman would point out, it's the number of links between people that is the problem. He came up with a formula for determining the number of links between members in a group: n(n-1)/2.
He came up with this? Really?
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Dan Neely wrote: OTOH I do recall recently seeing a paper published in some non-mathematical field whose author "discovered" that it was possible to calculate the area under a curve by approximating it with a number of tall skinny rectangles; and wrote an entire paper explaining how to use the "new" method.
Sounds like a fun read. You have a link? 
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I think I might've originally seen it here; but Google only turns up real calculus results. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Glad you're keeping up with the Kalculushians.
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Thanks! Good read and sad too.
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We're at an interesting point in time/technology where the ability for humans to communicate with each other is magnitudes poorer than the ability for machines to communicate with each other. Since evolution is not going to change that anytime soon, we clearly need to progress the technology to the point where human communication is unnecessary to "get stuff done." The first intermediate step is to get machines smart enough to tell us what to do, rather than us trying to tell machines what to do. The ultimate goal though is to eliminate the need for the human being altogether, such that we can all move to Colorado and spend our lives smoking pot. On the other hand, if we all just start smoking pot, then we would at least have the illusion that our communication was awesome, man.
Marc
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Company doesn't admit design fault, describes five-step testing process. "You're holding it wrong"
The customer is only right when they have cash in hand, it seems
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I regularly take Microsoft to task when they fall short of the somewhat lofty standards I’ve set for them in my head. So it’s only fair that I should also level some harsh criticism at some of their competitors when warranted. "The keys are under the mat"
modified 25-Sep-14 18:09pm.
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Your links are borked. Seems to be a CP link issue today...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Yeah, it's been a couple of days. Seems only if the link is too long. I'll clean them up.
TTFN - Kent
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency’s director said Thursday. "Locks only keep honest people out"
modified 25-Sep-14 18:10pm.
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Thats ok, it won't take them long to see how to subvert the encryption.
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Ethernet inventor Metcalfe calls the work of Metro Ethernet Forum a 'new network paradigm' Was I out of the room when someone said everything was 'as-a-service' now?
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Dealing with code created by other people is a fundamental skill for a developer. Give it a year and other people’s code could even be your own. Double-gloves, mask, overcoat. (Tongs if it's old SQL code)
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I note that my keyboard has three buttons that will delete it. I can take a hint.
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Delete, backspace, and ... ?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You have separate Del and Delete keys? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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