New Year's Resolutions: 3

[CajunCenturion]

Anyone have an IT Related New Year's Resolutions that you wish to share?

One of mine is the convert the home PC from Windows to Linux.

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[jrbarnett]

Cajun,
Yes, here are my computer related ones:

1. Take up technical certification and training if I don't get an IT job by the end of January. I may not think much of it, but many employers do.

2. Learn the ADO object model and coding. I am very well versed in DAO, but know very little about ADO.

3. Get the first pre release version of my MDB Doc addin v1.3 ready by the end of February. I thought I may be able to get it done by end of Jan, but it is taking longer than I thought. Also I keep on thinking of useful extra features to put in, so they go in the To Do list.

John

 

[benlinkknilneb]

How about this?

> Spend less time on work projects. While I enjoy my job, I want to leave the office at the office. Devote that time to other, more important people & things.

> Finish my degree. I need 9 credit-hours to graduate. I am SO tired of profs teaching me to do things they can't do (which seems to be a major problem at my school, where most of the CS professors haven't worked a day in their lives outside of academia)

> Work on a "fun" programming project (write a game) that I can just do whenever I feel like it... something to sharpen my skills, but not be something that consumes outrageous amounts of my time.

Ben
A programmer was drowning. Lots of people watched but did nothing. They couldn't understand why he yelled "F1!"

 

[mbalent]

Go through my enormous stack of Dilbert cartoons and eliminate those which depict situations I've never encounterd on my many jobs. (Might eliminate 2 or 3.)

 

[strongm]

I keeping last year's resolution not to make any more New Year resolutions...

 

[theoxyde]

I am resolving to retire as a multi-billionaire in '04.

Hey, if you are going to fall short of a resolution, make it a doosey. It sucks to think back and realize you had all year and failed to meet some little goal of losing 20 lbs. or whatever. I'll be sitting pretty if I only meet a fraction of my resolution

 

[Gatorajc]

Start preparing to get OUT of IT.

AJ


If at first you do not succeed, cheat!

 

[chiph]

Repeat of last years resolution (only partially successful):

Don't let the company interfere with what little personal life I have.

Chip H.


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[SQLSister]

To get a new job where the project manager actually knows the difference between a lilobyte and a megabyte and isn't the CEO's girlfriend with no qualifications for her job whatsoever.

 

[Grenage]

Ouch SQLSister

My resolution is to try and learn some form of programming, probably C.

 

[CajunCenturion]

This is new to me: What's a lilobyte?

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[benlinkknilneb]

Cajun:
I googled for it: apparently, it's a kilobyte with enlarged fingers. :-D

Ben
A programmer was drowning. Lots of people watched but did nothing. They couldn't understand why he yelled "F1!"

 

[LUEBBKEVIN]

I've only a few
1) learn another programming language
2) find a new job....this company is run by idiots(I think they must suck out all common sense from people when they get into management positions)
3) pay more attention to the important stuff---family---fun
and finally
4) take my vacation days instead of letting them drop off at the end of the year!

 

[ANFPS26]

SQLSister, I used to work for that company.
We had a third level whose girlfriend knew nothing but could do no wrong. Been there done that!

Jim

 

[SQLSister]

Cajun a lilobyte is a kilobyte for those of us who are typing challenged.

Note to self, must learn to proofread before hitting submit button.

 

[bbarr]

watch more south park . . . last week they had an awesome episode where they just trashed canada

other than that . . . get a full time job (why can't I wish for the impossible?)

actually put an index.html page on my personal website.

learn some sys admin so can install freebsd without deleting everything (did that when I first installed linux )

do more yoga, get back on atkins diet, world domination (based on theoxyde's rationale), credit-card debt lower than my annual income (and lower than the GDP of bangladesh)

 

[AnanthaP]

Main purpose:
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.

Resolution.
(1) Avoid jargon.
(2) Write simpler user manuals.

Q.
Whats with ending an assertion with ? I saw it in another forum too. I understand that "lisp" does that. Also, is it old hackish jargon?

End

 

[johnwm]

AnanthaP
<Q.
Whats with ending an assertion with ? I saw it in another forum too. I understand that &quot;lisp&quot; does that. Also, is it old hackish jargon?>

It's a pathetic 90's script kiddie thing, usually only used these days by people who describle themselves as 'kewl'. I'm always amazed when I see that sort of thing on a 'professional' post, and I (and I guess many others) will tend to ignore such posts as unprofessional

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[sedj]

Ouch !

I always thought it was a man with a pipe.

 

[CajunCenturion]

I'm sorry SQLSister. I thought that it might be either an exteme prefix (> 10²⁴ or < 10^-24), or is one of the now obsolete prefixes -- How many people (without using Google) know what a myriabyte is?

While we're talking about this, I wonder how long it will be before we stop talking about megabytes and gigabytes, and use the more accurate binary prefixes like mebabyte (2²⁰) and gibabytes (2³⁰) so that with precision you can say:
1 megabyte = 10⁶=1 000 000 and
1 mebabyte = 2²⁰=1 048 576

Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein