On the east coast of the US most companies have "casual Fridays", an indulgence from H.R. which allows the MBA lemmings to be seen in the office without a suit and tie on Fridays
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Best city to work?I don't think it's the location, rather the size of the company and the amount of time that deadwood has had to gather. It seems that any company larger than 100 employees and older than 5 years starts collecting people with no useful skills and no real function
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Best city to work?Columbus is a great college town but once you get tired of the High street bar scene there isn't much else. Also the city planners have really let the sprawl get out of hand. I would take a close look at Boston or NYC if you like city life and culture (and don't mind sky high rents) or the research traingle area for cheap land and access to the ocean or the mountains
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Linux - the Amiga of the 00'sHave you tried red hat? We have several systems running here with no problems. We are using them to host apache servers with jserv extensions and everything seems to be rock solid
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Linux - the Amiga of the 00'sAaaah, I don't think I would call Linux a fringe OS. It's already taken a big chunk of the web server market and has quite a few corporate and goverment sponsors behind it. Linux may stay a "fringe OS" in the desktop market but it and the other free UNIX clones are already well on their way to dominating the server/mini market. P.S. - I've heard that Microsoft uses Apache servers for hosting some of their web pages. Does anyone know if this is true? P.P.S. - Amiga was killed by incompetent management. If they had played their cards right they could have taken over most of Apple's market share
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How to tell if you're a geekAnd also: You can name more than three anime characters. You go to any gathering with "Con" or "Fest" in the name. At the local electronic store you ask for equipment the salesman didn't know existed. Your sentences have more than four acronyms in them. You read textbooks for pleasure. You have a stacks of old calculators, motors, and computers "just because".
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What's up with WTL - Is it still alive?Has anyone heard any news about WTL? It made quite a splash but there dosn't seem to be much of a follow up. Is Microsoft planning to turn it into a real, supported product or just let it languish in limbo? I would love to start using WTL for production code, but there is no way management would go for an unsupported, "bleeding edge" development too
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UK out of petrolWow, people in the states started crying for relief when gas prices hit $1.50 a gallon. I'm amazed there isn't wholesale cheating going on to beat the taxman. People converting their cars to run on LP and petrol, station owners selling "under the table", etc