Posts by Dann 23 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
After the last nine years banging on, creating websites and pushing for, it is nice that Ted is finally being listened to. Sys Admin Day is a great idea and I have enjoyed being the UK voice for all these years. Now if you could all go to sysadminday.co.uk and like the page, that would be helpful.
I am an IT generalist and at the moment I work full time in the design department in a multi-national aerospace company (I ran my own IT company for over 10 Years previously). The IT generalist it seams is ideal if more aligned with the customer (rather than the ICT department).
I interface for the engineering department to the ICT department. My job shouldn't exist but most "clever" people need generalists like us to steer them through the ICT minefield.
A few years ago I didn't even know this type of job existed. I have done it for 2 different major aerospace companies. We need more ICT generalists because they are the ones with common sense.
I have met quite a few SEO companies and yes most of them are scum. They seem to want to get their customers in the number one spot above all else. It must be a personality thing.
Why does it have to be like that?
If one of my customers sells widgets in London, then they want people who need widgets in London to find them on Google.
Unfortunately most of the first page in Google for this kind of search throws up other search sites.
I hope that as time progresses that SEO will just become another part of designing a good website so that when you search for something, the designer has done enough to make sure that the customers site is on the first page and other search sites get pushed down.
As for all the hate against SEO - Get a life.
If you dont like the way people do things - Do it better!
From my experience the British BT call centre workers can be just as bad. Actually worse because I have never had an indian call centre worker put the phone down on me like a British BT call centre worker did.
Oh well at least my customer promised (and did) leave BTs incredibly badly run business ADSL service.
There is a funny story behind the Wales Sys Admin Site.
Back a few years ago I missed buying the co.uk by 1 minute, so as a good sport I decided that who ever had the co.uk wouyld do the official UK site and I settled for the org.uk and offered to do the Wales site.
The co.uk was never used and last year I bought that too.
So the co.uk and the org.uk are the official UK site.
I have told Ted, but I'm sure he has been really busy.
So please send us your pics of your sys admin day party in the UK to sysadminday at smartfoxit dot com, or tell your co workers to visit www.sysadminday.co.uk
Thanks
wow I wonder how we have been making money from our cbm.biz 0845 dial up internet!
It is true in some cases that you have to buy an 0845 but you dont (or shouldn't) pay for the calls you recieve.
And you can in certain circumstances even make money off them. (as we do for our dial up service)
I think we should use the online filling
My paper tax returns keep getting lost in the post!
(OK its not as good as Steves joke)
On a serious note, maybe people aren't using the online system because it is rubbish.
The .gov system is hard to use, not intuitive and I had a laugh yesterday when a woman from the VAT office was trying to guide me to download a form and I realised that because I was using Firefox the layout completely was different.
I don't usually comment, but this article is wrong.
I have used Vista and the desktop search was useless.
I have used Google desktop search and it was really good. (This was on XP)
I won't detail all the other (numerous) failings of Vista here because I have said them so many times. Suffice to say that Vista is the only reason I am now running Ubuntu as my main OS.
To summarise;
Couldn't play DVDs all the time with Windows media player
Networking was a pain
search was next to useless
Eye candy slowed normal use
Copying was very slow. (I have heard of the bug since but not heard that it has been fixed yet)
Oh and installing was only better than Gentoo. (vista business took 3 days to install properly - I gave up on Gentoo after 2 days)
Dont forget that Virgin Media have changed from per second to per minute (I especially liked the example in the letter that said "if your call lasts for 4 minutes and 40 seconds it will be rounded up to 5 minutes" how about if your call lasts for 4 minutes 10 seconds?)
The only reason I haven't moved to BT yet is that they want to charge me £100+ for the privledge!
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