miércoles, 7 de mayo de 2008

Sueños Lúcidos

Esta es la dirección del blog de mi amigo vauli.

http://onafet.blog.com/

lo anexo también a los favoritos.

Ojo!!! no confundir el blog con el fotolog!!!

nine types of users

Buscando en la red un artículo que hace mucho había leido, me topé con una página que contiene algo graciosos sobre los tipos de usuarios.

la URL es la siguiente: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~pmurphy/users.html

Pero copio la información tal cual:

The 9 Types of Users


Or: Humour only a sysadmin appreciates


El Explicito

I tried the thing, ya know, and it worked, ya know, but now it doesn't, ya know?
Advantages:
Provides interesting communication challenges.
Disadvantages:
So do chimps.
Symptoms:
Complete inability to use proper nouns
Real Case:
One user walked up to a certain Armenian pod manager and said, "I can't get what I want!" The pod manager leaned back, put his hands on his belt-buckle, and said, "Well, ma'am, you've come to the right place."

Mad Bomber

Well, I hit ALT-f6, shift-f8, CNTRL-f10, f4, and f9, and now it looks all weird.
Advantages:
Will try to find own solution to problems.
Disadvantages:
User might have translated document to Navajo without meaning to.
Symptoms:
More than six stopped jobs in UNIX, a 2:1 code-to-letter ratio in
WordPerfect
Real Case:
One user came in complaining that his WordPerfect document was
underlined. When I used reveal codes on it, I found that he'd set
and unset underline more than fifty times in his document.

Frying Pan/Fire Tactician

It didn't work with the data set we had, so I fed in my aunt's recipe for key lime pie.

Advantages:
Will usually fix error.
Disadvantages:
Fix is defined very loosely here.
Symptoms:
A tendency to delete lines that get errors instead of fixing
them.
Real Case:
One user complained that their program executed, but didn't do anything. The scon looked at it for twenty minutes before realizing that they'd commented out every line. The user said, Well, that was the only way I could get it to compile.

Shaman

Last week, when the moon was full, the clouds were thick, and Fomalhaut was above the horizon, I typed f77, and lo, it did compile.

Advantages:

Gives insight into primitive mythology.

Disadvantages:
Few scons are anthropology majors.
Symptoms:
Frequent questions about irrelevant objects.
Real Case:
One user complained that all information on one of their disks got
erased (as Norton Utilities showed nothing but empty sectors, I
suspect nothing had ever been on it). Reasoning that the deleted
information went somewhere, they wouldn't shut up until the
scon checked four different disks for the missing information.

X-user


Will you look at those. . .um, that resolution, quite impressive, really.
Advantages:
Using the cutting-edge in graphics technology.
Disadvantages:
Has little or no idea how to use the cutting-edge in graphics
technology.
Symptoms:
Fuzzy hands, blindness
Real Case:
When I was off duty, two users sat down in front of me at DEC station 5000/200s that systems was reconfiguring. I suppressed my laughter while, for twenty minutes, they sat down and did their best to act like they were doing exactly what they wanted to do,
even though they couldn't log in.

Miracle Worker


"But it read a file from it yesterday!" 'Sir, at a guess, this disk has been swallowed and regurgitated.' "But I did that a month ago, and it read a file from it yesterday!"
Advantages:
Apparently has remarkable luck when you aren't around.
Disadvantages:
People complain when scons actually use the word horse-puckey.
Symptoms:
Loses all ability to do impossible when you're around. Must be
the kryptonite in your pocket.
Real Case:
At least three users have claimed that they've loaded IBM
WordPerfect from Macintosh disks.

Taskmaster


Well, this is a file in MacWrite. Do you know how I can upload it to MUSIC, transfer it over to UNIX from there, download it onto an IBM, convert it to WordPerfect, and put it in three-column format?
Advantages:
Bold new challenges.
Disadvantages:
Makes one wish to be a garbage collector.
Symptoms:
An inability to keep quiet. Strong tendencies to make machines
do things they don't want to do.
Real Case:
One user tried to get a scon to find out what another person's E-mail address was even though the user didn't know his target's home system, account name, or real name.

Maestro


Well, first I sat down, like this. Then I logged on, like this, and after that, I typed in my password, like this, and after that I edited my file, like this, and after that I went to this line here, like this, and after that I picked my nose, like this. . .

Advantages:
Willing to show you exactly what they did to get an error.
Disadvantages:
For as long as five or six hours.
Symptoms:
Selective deafness to the phrases, "Right, right, okay, but what
was the ERROR?", and a strong fondness for the phrase, "Well, I'm
getting to that."
Real Case:
I once had to spend half an hour looking over a user's shoulder while they continuously retrieved a document into itself and denied that they did it (the user was complaining that their document was 87 copies of the same thing).

Princess


(unfair, perhaps, as these tend, overwhelmingly, to be males)
I need a Mac, and someone's got the one I like reserved, would you please
garrote him and put him in the paper recycling bin?
Advantages:
Flatters you with their high standards for your service.
Disadvantages:
Impresses you with their obliviousness to other people on
this planet.
Symptoms:
Inability to communicate except by complaining.
Real Case:
One asked a scon to remove the message of the day because he (the user) didn't like it.

jueves, 1 de mayo de 2008

Cadenas de conexión a bases de datos

Pues la última en la que me metí, fué en desarrollar una pequeña aplicación para el lugar en el que trabajo (si, por fin ya estoy trabajando).

El asunto radica, en que hay que hacerlo en .Net y pues aunque no es mucho de mi agrado.... ni modo!!

De las cosas que tenía que aprender es realizar fue la conexión a la base de datos de VB 2005 a access. Eso no ha sido lo complicado pero dentro de la búsqueda de información, me topé con esta página que pues igual y a alguien le sirve.

Se llama connectionstring.com y resume algunos ejemplos de como conectarse a varias fuentes de datos.

Deljo la liga y la pongo en la lista de las ligar permanentes

http://www.connectionstring.com/

Iron Man

Pues como siempre, el hecho de ver una película, es el pretexto para poner cosas en este blog o como diría mi mejor amigo egoblog... jajaja

En fin, pues aprovechando este pequeño día de descanso, fuí con mi hermano a ver esta película que apenas se estrenó el día de ayer. Él dice que está buena, yo esperaba más acción, pero en fin, si te entretienes...