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Archived IT - Careers Articles
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11 Jun 2013
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5 Great Things You Can Learn by Working for Bad Bosses [31465]
TLNT, June 11, 2013
"Most articles about bad bosses say that the best thing you can learn from them is how not to manage employees. Can't disagree with that!
But aside from that, there are some other things you can learn from a bad boss that you can't learn from a good boss...
So, here are the five (5) things you can learn from a bad boss:
- You must do your best work - always.
- You learn how to be creative.
- You learn how to protect yourself
- You learn how to 'read' people and situations
- You learn the value of having close working relationships
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10 Jun 2013
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Steve Case [31466]
InformationWeek June 10, 2013
"The book AOL.com by Kara Swisher starts with the funeral of Bill von Meister, the man who understood what an online world was before there was an online world.
When a new industry emerges, sometimes it's the charlatans and sneaky guys who come before the visionaries. Think how pornography helped jumpstart the video industry and then the Internet. And let's not forget the key role "sex chat" had in getting America Online off the ground, with its private rooms and closed user groups. (You've got porn!)..."
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10 Jun 2013
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How to Be Superb at What You Do [31467]
TLNT, June 7 2013
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
"Competence. These three syllables mean everything in business, art, and industry alike, embodying as they do an individuals overall capability as a practitioner of their chosen field.
Like the older terms 'able seaman' or 'journeyman,' competence signifies an individual's capacity to handle all aspects of a particular job, and even in our overhyped world remains something to be proud of..."
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10 Jun 2013
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The 12 Most Controversial Facts in Mathematics [31468]
Business Insider, March 25, 2013
"Mathematics has little surprises that are designed to test and push your mental limits.
The following 12 simple math problems prove outstandingly controversial among students of math, but are nonetheless facts.
They're paradoxes and idiosyncrasies of probability. And they're guaranteed to start an argument or two.
If you're looking for a mathematical way to impress your friends and beguile your enemies, here's a good place to start..."
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03 Jun 2013
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20 Historic Tech Sounds You May Have Forgotten [31362]
ComputerWorld, May 31, 203
"From the hum of an old car's engine to the galunk! of a fictional plumber's fireball, sounds have an amazing ability to transport us back in time.
Outside of our minds, however, sounds have a far less reliable lifespan -- especially within the realm of technology. As electronics evolve, so do the sounds that go with it -- and many of the dings, beeps, and hisses burned into our brains will hold no emotional connection to the teens of tomorrow. Some are already meaningless to today's 20-somethings.
So crank up your speakers and get ready to mutter incomprehensible insults about "those darn kids these days." Here are 20 memorable tech sounds that are well on their way to being forgotten...
- The floppy disk anthem
- The modem's music
- The Windows serenade
- The mail man's call
- The Nokia boogie
- The busy signal ballad
- The dot matrix jam
- The slide projector shuffle
- The TV sign-off song
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03 Jun 2013
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Becoming a Computer Forensic Examiner [31363]
HelpNet Security, May 31, 2013
"Since the advent of affordable personal computers, digital devices, and later the Internet, these technologies have been used for both legal and illegal purposes, and in order to collect evidence to help prosecute some of the people engaged in the latter, a new science had to be born: digital forensics.
One of the branches of digital forensic science is computer forensics, which deals with legal evidence that can be extracted from computers and digital storage media..."
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