Just an idea - if you tax and legalise a gateway drug like marijuana you make it a "big step" for kids to go from being kids to addicts without being part of your gateway.

Most kids don't take up smoking these days because they get education that says - its a fucking mindless idea to smoke - because educators can talk about that with authority. Give educators the same powers with weed and you go from seeing drugs as "I'll just try a joint cos its like a strong cigarette" to "wft? I have to take a pill that some junkie made or put some hardcore up my nose???"

Its only hardcore because kids experience gateway drugs which build up the expectation of a high and in some cases have addictive personalties that lead them into the deeper world of drugs.

Sorry to spoil your point but I just couldn't help myself....

Did they come to you (or you to them) asking for a brief? Did you answer their questions? Did you give them specific advice on what they should look out for in the CV?

Hey if you said some specifics and HR over looked them then sure, go nuts (because you reviewed their brief right?). But if you didn't and expected them to "know" then the blame is on you.

(I'm not insinuating either way)

"...hire attitude not skills...."

Now I say this with an expectation that the candidate has requisite core skills (or at least partially and the rest are in the team that they work with).

Any day of the week I would hire a person with a genuine passion for what they do (and a certain amount of grounding) over a stale, set in their ways, experienced person. If the fire is out its out.

If you teach & mentor someone from the start you end up with a committed and talented colleague.

Day of Defeat: dod_charlie

Its is a map of a Normandy beach where the Allies start off in the water and the Axis are in fortified positions. Its carnage. You spawn in water, take a step, take a bullet. Die.

Video games a the only way to experience taking a bullet in such a horrific encounter that is akin to a real experience but "do-able" in a mass education format.

I have used fedora for years then switched to Ubuntu. This is on a bunch of laptops for me and colleagues.

Wireless broadband didn't work in 7.x could get it in 8.4 with great amount of effort, out of the box in 8.10, fucked it again in 9.04 and had to fix it manually with usb_modswitch, fucked that up again in 9.10.

This is a Telstra series 7 (Australia's largest ISP) USB modem.

In the work sense you can imagine how crap Linux looks when it works, then not, then click the icon, no wait run this script, no now you can right click the system tray, no wait Apps->Internet-> Gnome PPP...!

If companies like Canonical / Ubuntu really want Linux to be adopted then they need to stop users have things that are crucial to the user experience (of a netbook) break just because the user - quite rightly - clicked "Update".

I love Linux but there are pleanty of other OS's I could use if I didn't need working Internet access. :-)

"..Um, 'move' commands don't actually move the files on your hard disk...."

Unless they are moving between file systems / partitions.

"Who..saves the server when things break? The guy that knows what he's doing. He may feel like a hero afterward but mostly he just feels pissed off that he had to do it at all. ..."

Isn't that their job? The one they were hired for? The one they accept payment for?

Feel like a hero? Isn't that called professional pride in the real world?

It sounds like you are in the wrong job if you don't understand why meetings are for listening as well as speaking.

I've written a recruitment app that has 200k resumes and other types of folder indexed in text.

The files live on the disk in /TYPE/YEAR/MONTH and are converted to text and inserted into MySQL database.

They can be searched on name, date record id, free text, type, etc, etc; or just browsed to on disk.

The front end is PHP on MySQL.

These were imported from a files on disk approach.

It can scale with master slave replication, etc. Just keeping it simple helps.

Piss off u alco fag!!!!! :-)

"Contrary to what you seem to think, the employer/employee relationship goes both ways, and finding and keeping good employees is just as important for you as finding a good job is for them."

No offence but the world is in recession. Nice one dickhead. Finally the attitude that there are employers begging for people to work is gone!

YAY FOR THE REAL WORLD AGAIN!

(Oh and thanks for the US banking system for fucking up the world...wankers)

* dickhead is a soft term where I come from

"...OSS isn't free....."

Yeah it is.

Its just that knowledge isn't free, it takes time to learn. One way or another IT people are going have to learn the next product or project. When they learn the OSS one license costs disappear.