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Anyone else noticed an increase in spam email over the last 48 Hours?
They are bogus emails from Barclays, DHL and Skype and all carry an attachment which the email tries to convince you to open.
There was a spate of these a couple of months back and they appeared to stop overnight when that big botnet was shutdown. Hopefully these will also come to an end soon, but at least they provided good teaching aids for showing my eldest on what to look for in a dodgy email.
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Yes, and they're actually coming through my spam filters. That's very rare - or at least it used to be.
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It couldn't have anything to do with your signature? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yes - entirely. Barclays about 10/hour this afternoon, also DHL and Skype.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Just had one of my developers ranting at me because I couldn't tell him the latest version of one of our products. I'm running 50 projects and this moron thinks I can remember one thing. I told him to go to my office: it's on the whiteboard with all the others! He's going to get his ass fired.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Setting another's tushy (arse) aflame begets not the outcome one profits best from.
Achieving a lucrative gain is most desired.
As such, get a group of developers together and grill him about every one of those 50 projects/
Now, the goal is to discover his knowledge of all the projects. Keep count of the questions and of the correct answers. Anything below 75%, let him know you'll consider him for management in the future (sarcastic, of course...). Anything at or above 75% then give him $5 for knowing answers and, from now on, you expect him to know even more than what he got correct.
Problem solved.
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mark merrens wrote: I'm running 50 projects
Wow. Do you have adequate time to effectively manage them?
/ravi
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Organisation, via whiteboard, obviously.
The only way I know to keep track of all those version numbers, for starters.
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Coal mine. Joe is working here since last 3 months. He carries coal in a wheelbarrow. Joe decided to go to the Director, because his wheelbarrow doing the rasp every few seconds.
- Mr. Director, i'm leaving job, because this wheelbarrow still doing: zzzzzzz ...... (pause) ..... zzzzzzz (pause) zzzzzzzz ......
- Wrong Joe, i'm firing you, because this wheelbarrow should do: zzz.. zzz.. zzz ... zzz.. zzz ...
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mark merrens wrote: Just had one of my developers ranting at me
So far, a normal day at the office.
mark merrens wrote: He's going to get his ass fired.
Whaha, for being passionate? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have him clean the toilets first.
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I don't know, I kinda think they should...
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depends how many projects he is managing.
But at least he should be able to lay his hands on the info pretty quickly.
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Help->About.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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OriginalGriff wrote: depends
A project manager of one project.
Somehow I think if you don't know the release version, it's akin to forgetting your kids name, but that is why I am asking the question, sort of a sanity check.
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Motel Kamzoil wrote: it's akin to forgetting your kids name,
I have kids?! 
Well that explains a few things... 
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Hello 2.1.0 Build 214, how was school?
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Should be on the whiteboard in their office. You just didn't take the time to look properly.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Depends on size of projects, if the person is in a large or small R&D, the number of projects, the number of employees they manage, etc.
I am a sole developer and have over 20 "production" apps out. I don't know the "current" version of every one of them, but of only the current one I'm working on and of the most recent major changes in (most of) them.
It's not so much knowing the "current" version as much as it is knowing the "current" set of major changes that are presently deployed and what set of new changes, well, high priority ones if a big list, are being worked on that matters more.
We humans remember things more by object-based association than numbers/versions.
I can't tell you exactly about many of my birthdays, but I do remember significant events which occurred on or around some birthdays.
Used to work at a company that had it's meeting rooms named like 2NW2-R & 2NW2-L, which meant Building 2, NW area, 2nd floor, Right (or Left) side. People had to friggin use a compass to figure out just "NW".
So, I proposed the mtg rooms be named, such as after nearby mountain ranges.
After a few weeks, when someone said the meeting room was in "Sawtooth" or "Cascade", they new *exactly* which room it was.
This naming scheme for mtg rooms came from when I was at a prior employer. Each floor of each building had a naming scheme. One such naming scheme was to name rooms with words that stared with "In" but *not* include "In" in the actual name, such as Cognito, Dispensable, Coherent, Visible, Hospitable.
"Where's the vendor meeting, Bryan?" "It's in Coherent or in Hospitable, Tom."
The look on vendor's faces: Priceless!
modified 26-Nov-13 14:02pm.
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Motel Kamzoil wrote:
I don't know, I kinda think they should...
If that is the biggest problem that you have to worry about in your company then I suspect you have it very good.
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Amen!
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My pm neither knows nor cares about the release number, she will however discuss in detail the functionality of every critical feature in about 9 projects.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Everytime there's any news about independence only two MSPs, Salmond and Sturgeon are seen on national TV news. I thought there were lots of other MSPs north of t'wall so what are they saying or are they just sitting, saying nothing? From what I read, Sturgeon is his b*tch and Salmond is her p*mp. But there must be other MSP's with ideas and a mouth to express them as well? Shirley?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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How is that "no politicking"?
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I don't want to go into the merits of whether independence is good or not I'm just curious why only those two are the people we ever see or here.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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