Actually its the managers. I can deal with the end users. Just re-image the PC if it is beyond fixing. I expect it from them.
But the managers where I work have NO training on how to manage IT. None, zip, zero, zilch. The worst thing, in my opinion, is to make a developer a manager just because he/she has been there for so many years. ALL our managers in our IT department are former programmers. Programmers/Developer don't make good managers. Not one that I've seen.

Here is one small example of our management...
Only managers get bonuses in our company and they are based on their "manager goals".
The goal is to reduce hardware server count. Hard to do in this growing pathetic M$ environment. So what do they do??? "Let's download the free version of VMware server, make a few windows 2003 VMs and get rid of hardware."
Now we run a free version of VMware server running on a windows 2k3 box running 3 or 4 windows 2k3 server VMs. <sigh> The servers is constantly crashing and takes all the VMs with it.
Instead of spending the money on VMware ESX and running it on a big server packed with RAM, they cheap out and load a free version where you can't share resources like RAM which ESX does.
When the server crashes, we get blamed and they tell us we don't know what we are doing! This is one small example of our management. The only reason I stay there is because it is less than 2 miles from my house. Also working there is easy if you don't care about getting fired, which I don't = no stress. I can always start my own construction company again if I need to.
Note: Several MC members work here and feel the same way as I do. If anyone has any good Netware, Citrix or Security/Firewall jobs available in the TC area, please post them here.
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That sounds like they were being pennywise and pound foolish. Reminds me of an old story which I attribute to one of the local jurists, now deceased. He would tell the story of old time druggist/pharmacist who owned his own store. He had scrimped and saved for a long time to be able to afford his own place. One of the ways he saved money was to take the old prescription bottles in and scrape the labels off of them so they could be reused. By closely watching every penny he built a successful business over a long period of time. But all good things need to come to and end he eventually he had to retire. So he sold the store and pharmacy business to a young up and coming pharmacist. Now the young pharmacist did not have time to be scraping bottles to save pennies, but he did have some marketing sense and invested in some advertising and modernizing the business. In the first year he made more money than the old pharmacist did in two years. The moral of that story is to pay attention to the important parts of the enterprise and not overdo the attention to minutia.

It also could be that the organization is a living embodiment of the Peter Principle (book : "The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter). The jist of that is competent people do a good job and get promoted until the point where they are no longer competent and therefore no longer get promoted, hence we have the situation where management positions are filled by the incompetent. The corollary is that the way to cure this would be to demote everyone one position lower than their maximum promotion potential. Ergo, the most competent person would be filling each position.

I wish you luck with all of this.

Cheers

That was a pretty cool piece of music. Of course, I had to look at other selections of this piece so check this one out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WD3DncRK3c&feature=related

Cheers

Hmm......

Well, it was originally composed to piano.
Actually part A is quite possible to play with almost every note from both lines, but definitely part B need to play just one note with octave.
Same with part C, simply too fast notes, so need to concentrate just f-line.
Those fellows are just playing part C quite much same speed as part A, so it gives too "difficult" impression from begin and end. They should not.
On that my link, Eduardo seems to skip hold C-part.
(Sorry about my English, I do not know English music terms).

About guitars.
Spanish stuff die in our climate.
Wood is so different that wintertime house indoor climate will literally split them to pieces.
Optimum would be 40% air moisture, but it drops easily to something like 10% on winter time here.
One choice is use air humidifier, and there is also humidors that you can add inside guitar box. So it becomes like those cigar boxes 8)

I have actually test this once, by borrowing one of my guitar to my big brothers wife.
She did not close it to box after use, rather leave it lean against wall for a several months.
There was tree full length crak on bottom desk...

Well, I did park my car to her flower bed. The one with broken oil pan.


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