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Monday, October 14, 2002 |
Pure Evil At Work. Okay, so I'm at work now and I can't use Mozilla. The reason is that this company is actually 99.99% Microsoft. From what I understand, the project I'm working on is basically the only high-profile Java project in the company. That means the IT infrastructure holds a dim view of anything not created by the devil. So... being pure M$, the system admins of course are Nazis and as soon as you log into the domain, many of your default settings are immediately replaced with what the IS dept thinks is good for you. (Which means I try not to reboot.) Additionally, and what bugs me most, is I can't use Moz. The firewall is password protected via NT Authentication... which means only Internet Exploder functions here at work and Jabber, AOL, Yahoo, etc. don't work at all. Does ANYONE know of a local proxy that will authenticate me with the firewall via NT Auth? Help me punch a pinhole in the borg. -Russ ... ooh... I just found the NTLM Authorization Proxy Server and it works like a charm on Moz! Yeah... now I've got to find a IM client that'll go over http, Yahoo doesn't seem to like it so far. [Russell Beattie Notebook] 7:50:20 PM ![]() |
Note to Self: Do some research on Plotinus, Origen, Simeon Stylites, Athanasius, Pachomius, Cassian, and Benedict. 3:10:54 PM ![]() |
Thinking about thinking. That's the difference between outliner users and everyone else. They think about thinking. They're aware of their own process. Only people who think about thinking get to a place where they can invest in being more efficient in their thinking. Maybe "only" is too strong a word. Some people say they don't think in outlines. Yeah yeah. But hanging information on a hierarchy makes it easy to forget it and focus on new ideas and relationships. It's a good way to relax intellectually. ";->" [Scripting News] 2:40:19 PM ![]() |
A 250 year plan for one organization... The US of A is younger than that. From http://www.realbusiness.co.uk/showdetail.asp?ArticleID=2397 md I know one Japanese organisation that has a 250-year plan! They review that every 50 years. Okay, that may be taking it a bit far but the planning exercise is very important. Some large organisations put a lot of time and effort into communicating that plan to everybody within the organisation. In a small organisation, it might automatically get communicated. But at some point when the organisation gets to a certain size, someone has got to make sure there’s a mechanism in place to communicate it out to everybody – because its effect on morale and the team is very important. Corporate lessons: 11 things that small companies should do 1:45:57 PM ![]() |
Managing the knowledge worker. Mock Turtle writes about the challenges of managing the knowledge worker. To quote: Whilst many organisations are slowly recognising the value that knowledge and insight can add to their business, many are still struggling with the management of the knowledge... [Column Two] 12:34:34 PM ![]() |
Meeting a mentor. “CMLT C441: Monastic texts of early medieval Christianity.” If ever there’s been a less enticing title for a class, I’ve never seen it. I curled my lip and kept looking. Then I started lecturing myself. Your specialization within the comparative literature major is medieval culture, and what you don’t know... [Caveat Lector] 11:15:12 AM ![]() |