The ramblings of Aprazeth, an recent convert to minimalism, enthusiast of computer technology – with an outspoken opinion about everything and everyone.
Archive for July, 2007
… The actual meaning of the jibberish in job-descriptions
Jul 25th
“Competitive Salary”
We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.
“Join Our Fast-Paced Company”
We have no time to train you; you’ll have to introduce yourself to your coworkers.
“Immediate Opening”
The person who used to have this job gave notice a month ago. We’re just now running the ad.
“Seeking Enthusiastic, Fun, Hard Working, People”
…who still live with their parents and won’t mind our internship-level salaries.
“Competitive Environment”
We have a lot of turnover.
“Exciting And Professional Work Environment”
Guys in gray suits will bore you with tales of squash and their weekends on yachts.
“Flexible Hours”
Work 40 hours; get paid of 25.
“Must Have An Eye For Detail”
We have no quality control.
“Aspirations For Growth Within Our Company”
We love brown-nosers.
“Ability To Handle A Heavy Workload”
You whine, you’re fired.
“Good Communication Skills”
Management communicates, you listen, figure out what they want to do.
“Requires Team Leadership Skills”
You’ll have the responsibilities of a manager, without the pay or respect.
“Problem-Solving Skills A Must”
You’re walking into a company in pertetural chaos.
“Seeking Candidates With A Wide Variety Of Experience”
You’ll need it to replace three people who just left.
“College Degree Preferred”
Unless you wasted those four years studying something useless like philosophy, English, or religion.
“Some Overtime Required”
Some time each night and some time each weekend.
Which lolcat am I?
Jul 22nd
Your Score: 7331 Cat
31% Affectionate, 59% Excitable, 53% Hungry
Lolzergs have nothing on you. You are swift and ruthless, cutting down whatever and whomever necessary in order to obtain the foodz. As one of the first lolcat known to man, your ancient skills in location-declaration and object-verbing have been passed down several generations, keeping the spirit of felinity alive.
To see all possible results, checka dis.
| Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Eh… I forgot
Jul 18th
Long time no post… I know. I have been pretty busy with a lot of things, and at the same time with nothing as well. Health-wise I caught a flu, which seems to be gone now :mrgreen: So that’s good news. Otherwise, I have sold my 2nd computer – which made me some money – more good news :mrgreen:
I hope to make some posts in the near future (read days) but no promises. Take care all!
Geek stuffis
Jul 6th
Hanging SVCHost
If you notice that at system start your machine is sluggish and SVCHOST.exe is the reason, you might want to check out the following;
Firstly download the files from the following links for your Windows Version, and install them.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en
Then start a command prompt and copy/paste this into it:
net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 /u wuaueng.dll /s
del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\Windowsupdate.log
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\atl.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\jscript.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\msxml3.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\softpub.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuapi.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wucltui.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wups.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuweb.dll
net start bits
net start wuauserv
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
That should fix the problem. Be sure to run a full scan at http://update.microsoft.com to ensure that all patches are installed, as there is a patch to fix this as well… But that sometimes does not remedy the issue – so hence the above fix. I can’t take any credit for it – as I found it somewhere but lost the original source :shock: Kudos to the person(s) in question!
New Internet Line
I just got a new internet line at home in Almere. I’m back on cable – eventhough it still needs some work to get it all to work (beter) correctly, it’s working for the time being. I hope to fully enjoy the 20Mbit it should give me ;) Downloads up-ahead!
Personal stuff
Personally I am doing OK, tired… but OK. I have done a lot at work and I think I can be pleased with what we have accomplished over the last few weeks… I hope that we can carry it on, so that we can make a few very welcome changes soon.
Asides that, I managed to get my hands on a copy of a Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts which I hope to start reading soon. For the time being I am enjoying the book called Street Lawyer which I highly recommend.
Well I better get back to work… take care all!
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