Vintage era

On 2/8/2013 4:02 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: I worked for sun for a couple of years from 93 to 95 (I think). two stories: Scott McNeely liked having a really fancy video studio so he could make high sounding rambling speaches and distribute them. I worked for a fellow who had been and still was the defacto support guy for a facility, and division, and besides my job, was wired especially well into IT and facilities. helped a lot. Anyway word came down that some big speech was on the way, I don't recall how many mb. There was a huge fuss because Scott or whoever wanted to email it to everyone and be sure they saw it. The new fangled netscape was around, but I was still in the mode of trolling FTP sites in the company for entertainment and software than anything resembling what was created by the net. So to get media out it had to be sent to each individual. Too many schmucks who wouldn't or couldn't handle getting and playing it they would need to add about 100gb to the mail server space to accommodate all the copies of the email to be sent out. They ended up doing it for this email because surely there would be more to follow (one more ever). Just to hear Scott's head rattle. I'd listened to a lot of media and had the setup to get and play it, but there was a lot of manual work involved. Another was that I was a contractor. Near the end of my time there, which didn't particularly end because I wanted to leave, they changed the accounting for the space in the facility. Some bean counter decided that the facility was to be an asset, and you had to rent your space. Some workers had no issues, and they then had their offices charged to their departments at a ridiculous price. So as a contractor, if I was in the office I'd have to pay rent (not me actually, but my supervisor had to find budget). so any trace of me moved off books, as my job was actually 100% travel. good for a while. but some people who were such as sales or field support suddenly lost their offices due to the fact that they were in the field. The new marvelous system was that there would be a room, chairs, phones, and all that they could "rent" when they were in the office, and their department had to pay for that. The more you were out and about, the lower the rent. total madness. My tenure came to an end when they offered me 1/3 of my contracting rate as an employee. My takehome literally would not have been as high as a friend's kid who worked flipping burgers. Clear message. screw Sun. Love (ed) solaris, and the technical achievement. Never worked directly in engineering, I was working for a marketing guy doing engineering off the books, would have cried more to see what I did go down the way it did. Jim