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Legends of IT support

Today on WTF there' one of the most 'famous urban legends about computer support to users.

There are historical:
- complains that the computer does not work but then fails to say if the cables are attached because the lights are out for a blackout
- complains that the sw does not work from a floppy 5 , 25''after the label attached to the floppy with the stapler

In my experience the most 'and pretty' as follows:
when I was still in the CED of a large company, we called a group of ten consultants' high level "and had them locked in a closet where we put 10 PCs (more than 626 law .. even the basement in an office where I work now seems serious in comparison).

One day there was only one of the consultants in the closet and had made up his mind to install a sw on the machines of all my colleagues.
Call to a colleague saying, "I can not share my CD player in the network."

My colleague goes into the room and heads for the ' we had one PC with a CD player. imagine his surprise when he heard: "No, my PC is that."

I enclose a picture of the computer model to help you understand where he slipped on the CD.

What makes me laugh the most is that he simply said "the CD does not work" but "I can not share my CD over the network."

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But I live in a Dilbert cartoon?

Well .. more 'than once I realized the terrible parallels ... went to see the site the Dilbert cartoon of March 21, 2007 (until it is available). The strip covers the idea of "genius" to increase productivity to prevent the use of e-mail on Friday. Pointy haired boss

: In order to boost productivity, the company has Decided That employees can not use e-mail on frydays
Alice: What if my Highest Priorities require e-mail? Should I waste my day doing worthless stuff? Pointy haired
boss: Geez. Somehow you made a great idea ridicolous look.
Alice Yeah, that's all me.

compare with a real case:
[to a customer a few years ago]

Client: now consultants will not be 'more' allowed access to the Internet. We do not have enough bandwidth for everyone in the company.
Consultant: ...

[2 days later]
Client: but how, in the release of today do not you put that new development.
Consultant: as a new development? we agreed the changes to the meeting the day before yesterday ..
Client: you, but then there was that urgent changes ... I sent you an email ..
Consultant: [look at half mast] on my corporate email?
Client: you ... um ... uhm ... maybe we need a moment to review the policy for Internet access ..
[premise: no, there had provided users on their mail system]

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And who kills them?

News
Republic (http://www.repubblica.it/2007/03/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/malaria/malaria/malaria.html )

(...)
transgenic malaria mosquito
"This is not infected and is more durable." The aim is to substitute other species. The disease kills nearly three million people a year worldwide
(...)

Now .. I am confident in the possibilities of science, but I think sometimes we try to solve problems in a little 'too' virtuoso. Maybe someone should read about the "butterfly effect" or the complexity of an ecosystem.

's like saying "the average temperature is rising as a solution ... we can remove the earth from the sun."

may also be a good idea for a movie ... you create transgenic mosquitoes are more resistant (to cold and malaria, to insecticides) and then discover that they are carriers of new diseases. brrrr ...

If now I could get my project to eliminate mosquitoes with low-energy laser pulses ...

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English: Do not exceed recommended dose ..

Yesterday I spent half a day to kick-off of my company: all the major leaders have expressed their feelings for the past year and their expectations for the future.

do not have much to say about the content .. If anything, I have doubts about the form:
"We've expanded the offering , more defined our proposition, and increased volumes"
"We achieved double-digit percentage "
'There is a sense of urgency in this field "

Now, I am a computer and some" defenses " a sword is the mother tongue in the specialist field results I think have also ridiculous (see the "raton" English and "logiciel" French).

But heck, when you start replacing random Italian words with their literal translation in English (without even a reduction in the number of bytes :-) then we slip in the excess .. this is not a fault of my business, please, just hear the interviews with the Italian businessmen.

Yes, yes ... I read too many articles Severgnini

:-) Oh, one point less than the manager who repeated two times in the same sentence " skills" - if you want to use English words in an Italian phrase I do the holy pleasure of using the singular.

PS: in Italian translates as "Kick-off"? "You know, we went to the kick-off company." No, I know because I almost managed to avoid running into the same error that I'm censoring (tempted to say "business men" instead of "business" was strong) ... but its "kick-off" does not know how to translate it effectively.

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We're human, we're amnesia machines

But if we were not able to forget? If every time that we were wrong, we're all ashamed of ourselves ... if any remorse, any fault in the brain was impressed as vivid as the moment when it really happened? Can you think of something else? Will we live? Or how would those who are open to contemplation of Zahir, lost to the world of things ...

then maybe we would not be destined to relive endlessly the same story, same time? And I say, ad infinitum .. also because our mental time would need to bow to the memory. Just a second thought to relive the story over and over again (or to give us the impression of infinite times), just a moment to relive our entire human history ..

If you want the literary examples of such "paradoxes" of mind and time, there are "The Secret Miracle" by Borges (to whom I owe the discovery of the Zahir) and "The end of the world and the country of wonders" of Murakami .. The quote

instead of the title is much to be geek, no?

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www.insac.com

:-) Ok, I'm in the mood for "little sea change," ...
Since lately I've been quite active on the blog I finally decided to point my domain www.insac.com on these pages (thanks to Enrico for the invaluable help).

The first consequence is that I had to go in to "Plus" LiveJournal and this means that you will see some advertisements here and there ... never mind ..

The second consequence is that I am trying to customize the look of these pages struggling with the capabilities of LiveJournal ... attempts may cause slight attacks of epilepsy ... I hope to converge quickly to something bearable ..

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Inkscape Not only ...

If you need a program for managing vector graphics and Desk Top Publishing for Linux, so far the good choice was Inkscape.
But now there seems to be at least a serious contender for the title of best Open Source software in category: Xara Xtreme .

Good to know .. (Maybe I'll design you a map of the house ... without using Excel spreadsheets)

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The list of the top 20 geek novels

I discovered, in a blog Italian, and only 4 months of delay, the Guardian published a list of the 20 best novels geek ...

I adapt myself to the proposed standard and shows the novels I've read in bold, and those beds in VO lingua originale:

1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams [VO]
   
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell [VO]
   
3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick
   
5. Neuromancer — William Gibson
   
6. Dune — Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov [VO]
   
8. Foundation — Isaac Asimov
   
9. The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs — Douglas Coupland [VO]
    
11. Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick
17. American Gods — Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

Mmh... 7 nei primi 10 ma sempre 7 nei primi 20.. chissà se significa qualcosa..
Well .. at least I know what are the next three novels to buy, no? :-)

I continue to recommend, "What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe ... with the "geek" has nothing to do but it's almost too good beginning to the end ..

PS: I was about to conclude when I correct .. Everywhere I wrote "books" instead of "novels" but I was making a mistake: where is "Escher, Godel and Bach: an eternal Golden Braid" or "Nexus"? In fact, the original article in the Guardian spoke of "geek novels", not "geek books"

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There 's an Excel spreadsheet for every occasion

This is the phrase, now famous, a colleague of mine:
in fact for everything he does, he decides, he thinks, there 'Its always a excel sheet with the information.

You put on a diet? Excel spreadsheet with the trend of weight
play volleyball? Excel spreadsheet with the results of matches
going on holiday? Excel spreadsheet with the stuff to pack

Now he has bought a house .. and clearly is an orgy of new Excel spreadsheets for everything ..

Passing behind his computer, at some point see the map of his house, with the arrangement of the furniture and displocazione houses. I approach to see what software he used e. .. (Zero suspense)

.. it was an Excel spreadsheet ...

He made the sheet-like graph paper with square cells equivalent to 10cm square.

Please .. tell me that the rest the world is not so ...
what you would use to "plan" your home?

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But Ajax is it? Calling all translators

For those who take seriously the question, I recommend the Wikipedia page on Ajax.

But clearly I just wanted to mention one of my usual Naneddoti:
about a year ago, we were in a meeting with a potential customer, and we begin to talk about what makes a platform developed by us.
Among the customers there 's also one of my former university fellow and I think "Great! Support! An engineer! How lucky I am."

do not know why, the discussion ends up on Ajax: I confess that when I had a great familiarity on the subject, just those few concepts useful for a chat in a pub. I end up talking a bit 'and I say "Yes, indeed .. the dynamism offered by the paradigm Ajax ..."

confess that perhaps too many times I read Dilbert, and therefore the choice of the word "paradigm" may have been a "crap" and in fact my ex-colleague stops me, and, with the authority given to him by his great experience in says:

"No, Ajax is not a paradigm .... is a language! "

.. to me at that point are (I think rightly) ball rolling off my chair .. I think I began to mutter things like "well, actually it is an innovative way to use technology already "but I saw that already looked at me with an air of compassion for those who have caught a fake expert" ... oh, well ... hopefully later he realized the error.

It reminded me of when in 1996 he felt the interviews Internet and had asked the library of my hometown "These days there is much talk of the Internet, but what the Internet" and "Internet is a program that ..." (GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

But then they were also the same time to ask if the newspaper had "Internet News" we hear, "No, here we only Forza Milan :-)