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

 

[Grenage]

myriabyte?

I can't even find that out on google!

 

[BakeMan]

I had to Google for it but I think this might explain it...

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/units.htm

BAKEMAN

 

[Marcs41]

I think I just found my resolution.
Spend a little less time telling others how to do or fix things, and clean up my own mess ;-)
With all test and tryouts to help members here, I made a real mess on some of my systems!

Marc
_{If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all. Please specify details.
Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC!}

 

[Gatorajc]

lol

Happy New Year


;o)



AJ


If at first you do not succeed, cheat!

 

[bbarr]

yes i use

you don't like it?

that's your problem

 

[Grenage]

Ah yes of course, myria=10,000.

 

[avjoshi]

That was interesting Bakeman.

A purple hart to you.

Anand

 

[MikeBronner]

My resolutions for 2004:

1) Find an IT job in the bay area (california).
2) Get my main side-project done.
3) Continue game programming on the side.

Take Care,
Mike

 

[theoxyde]

is an emoticon. Represents a smiley sticking his tongue out -- a symbol of enlightened apathy. Used by those of us too old-school to link to a smiley graphic.

bbarr, if you achieve your resolution of world domination, please be benevolent.

 

[BJCooperIT]

I vow to go to

http://www.webopedia.com/totd.asp

each day I am online to learn a new internet or computer term. I am tired of reading articles with buzzwords I must stop to look up.

^{Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ~George Bernard Shaw}
Consultant/Custom Forms & PL/SQL - Oracle 8.1.7 - Windows 2000

 

[CajunCenturion]

Actually bbarr, it's not our problem if we don't like it. Our problem is how to maintain the high professional standards which Tek-Tips strives to achieve. Would you ever use that symbol in any form of professional correspondence? If Tek-Tips truely is "Technical Work Forms for Computer Professionals", (see title in upper left hand corner of the screen), then sticking your tongue out at anyone does not belong as it is not professional behavior. johnwm has already said this, and in far better words.

I think that now, one of my Resolutions will be that I will be more diligent in Red-Flagging unprofessional posts and language and asking that those posts be removed from the site.

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

 

[DrJavaJoe]

Though Tek-Tips does provide a means to stick out your tongue.

 

[MikeBronner]

Cajun, while I do agree that certain levels of unprofessionalism should be discouraged, I do think that the friendliness and casual atmosphere provided by the smileys is an important part of helping each other out.

While it might not be strictly professional, as in professional use in professional documents, etc., I do believe it is an integral part of IT culture. It also keeps things lively and from drying up.

At least that's my perspective on smileys. ;-)

Take Care,
Mike

 

[sleipnir214]

Just so long as we all understand that in some cultures, sticking out one's tongue at a person is a grave insult.

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!!

 

[Stella740pl]

sleipnir214,

If you put it this way, yes. But that smiley with the tongue sticking out was used here number of times, and no one got insulted so far. And a lot of other emoticons and animated pictures that I would definitely consider unprofessional and childish in a corporate e-mail or on a resume, are widely used and appropriate on a forum, even the most professional. Probably there is a reason why Tek-Tips is providing the means of using them.

 

[CajunCenturion]

stella740pl - How do you know that no one has been offended or insulted?

MichaelBronner - While I completely agree that the use of emoticons has become part of the "on-line" culture, I would not agree that it's part of the professional IT culture.

I also agree that the key is finding the level between between too unprofessional and too staid. I don't think either extreme is where we want to be.

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

 

[Stella740pl]

CajunCenturion,

Well, I just believe it is so, because I haven't seen any messages of insulted people asking to stop using that (or any other) smiley; also I believe all (most?) of them are still there and hadn't been red-flagged; and last, the whole set of 'offending' symbols, some of them racially and otherwise classifying people, is still there and there is no remark from Tek-Tips next to them, warning that some of those pictures are potentially politically incorrect. Am I missing something?

This thread is starting to remind me couple of threads on political correctness from "Information Technology Ethics in the Workplace" forum - swastika in the font set, master-slave terminology, etc. No one in particular is insulted yet, but someone just assumed that it could be potentially insulting to some group of people to which, most likely, that someone doesn't belong personally, but we should ban this [fill in] anyway, because it's just not right to have it, even though it was there for years and may have different meaning to different people.

 

[MikeBronner]

LOL, I think CajunCenturion is on the same page as all of us. Sometimes the overuse of smileys makes it seem like we're in kindergarten again, and then again, if they're out of context, they might seem inappropriate.

Perhaps we should all resolute to using smileys in a responsible fashion for the coming year LOL

crystalshan, a little off-topic, are we?

Take Care,
Mike

 

[Onyxpurr]

Smileys? Better than frowneys! j/k

I like to keep things learthearted (where appropriate). If I don't, I'd go mad after one day in this environment.

Back on subject:

Resolutions:

1. Put my 4 year CIS degree into good use by not using Frontpage for my personal website anymore.

2. Get my documentation organized!

 

[onpnt]

#1 resolution is to get off my typing butt and get indepth in learning the .NET Frame and utilizing C# and what it has to offer.

#2 is to brush up the java skills as it seems to be a higher and higher demand out there.

talk about getting into two sides of the world of programming

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