Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
On Being a Boss
I am damn pissed today by a colleague. The story is like this: I have been engaged in a project that needs this guy's involvement, lets call him 'A'.
As how a typical project goes, our project suffers changing requirements. Initially we thought to give the application a specific feature, but when the customer reviewed the app, they decided to remove the feature.
Now the problem is A refused to make the changes, saying that I can do work-around at my end. Yes, I do agree I can do the work around, however this is not the way you work. As an sub-ordinate, you can propose your ideas, but the final decision lies with the supervisor. As long as the request is within the job scope, you must comply.
Today I got a heated discussion with A, and to the end, I think the only way to proceed is to replace him.
You may say I am extreme, however do note, when I made a decision, I, not my sub-ordinates, to bear the consequences. So, as a sub-ordinate, what you do is to tell me the resources needed for a particular task, and the options available, but if I choose something that may go against your will, please just do it. I need your full cooperation.
Feel free to make your call, when you are in my seat. Thank you.
As how a typical project goes, our project suffers changing requirements. Initially we thought to give the application a specific feature, but when the customer reviewed the app, they decided to remove the feature.
Now the problem is A refused to make the changes, saying that I can do work-around at my end. Yes, I do agree I can do the work around, however this is not the way you work. As an sub-ordinate, you can propose your ideas, but the final decision lies with the supervisor. As long as the request is within the job scope, you must comply.
Today I got a heated discussion with A, and to the end, I think the only way to proceed is to replace him.
You may say I am extreme, however do note, when I made a decision, I, not my sub-ordinates, to bear the consequences. So, as a sub-ordinate, what you do is to tell me the resources needed for a particular task, and the options available, but if I choose something that may go against your will, please just do it. I need your full cooperation.
Feel free to make your call, when you are in my seat. Thank you.
Monday, June 14, 2010
To Blog or Not To Blog
It is quite rare for me not to blog for more than one week, and here I am. My last post was on May 30.
Should I continue?
Time will tell.
Should I continue?
Time will tell.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
OpenSolaris Crashed!
Updated:
Edited title from 'OpenSolaris Clashed' to 'OpenSolaris Crashed'. Thanks Lim for pointing out that mistake. :)
Last evening my OpenSolaris box fell inside a reboot loop, right after I chose the BE image to boot from, the machine rebooted itself, and this loop continued ad infinitum.
The first reaction I had was suspecting my system drive went dead. So I booted using a 2009.06 CD, trying to see if there is any disk rescue utility. Nope, there is none.
Trying to import the zpool that housed my data:
$pfexec zpool import -f dpool
It worked, so my data was fine. *phew*
But problem appeared when I tried to import the zpool with my root:
$pfexec zpool import -f rpool
*System rebooted*
I nearly made the conclusion the drive was dead, but to further nail it down to hardware problem, I went ahead and installed a new copy of OS.
Everything went smoothly!! The system boots up properly again and again. Hey, I had a software issue.
Now I kind of suspect why 2010.04 never came out. The kernel has a very latent bug that will silently corrupt the system to total boot failure.
I guess I will use snv_111b for now, or until I can install FreeBSD...
Edited title from 'OpenSolaris Clashed' to 'OpenSolaris Crashed'. Thanks Lim for pointing out that mistake. :)
Last evening my OpenSolaris box fell inside a reboot loop, right after I chose the BE image to boot from, the machine rebooted itself, and this loop continued ad infinitum.
The first reaction I had was suspecting my system drive went dead. So I booted using a 2009.06 CD, trying to see if there is any disk rescue utility. Nope, there is none.
Trying to import the zpool that housed my data:
$pfexec zpool import -f dpool
It worked, so my data was fine. *phew*
But problem appeared when I tried to import the zpool with my root:
$pfexec zpool import -f rpool
*System rebooted*
I nearly made the conclusion the drive was dead, but to further nail it down to hardware problem, I went ahead and installed a new copy of OS.
Everything went smoothly!! The system boots up properly again and again. Hey, I had a software issue.
Now I kind of suspect why 2010.04 never came out. The kernel has a very latent bug that will silently corrupt the system to total boot failure.
I guess I will use snv_111b for now, or until I can install FreeBSD...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Office Life
Office life is turning a bit hectic ever since I started the new project. Now I am managing a guy while writing code myself. Management is always no fun.
Today my colleague was giving quite a bit of harsh words to one of his subordinates. My colleague's tone was irritated and I overheard fragments of raised voices "You can't tell this to the customers! We must find a work-around."
It seems his man was giving him some headaches by telling him the problems, instead of the solutions. Today a headhunter emailed me about an opportunity for a European company. I replied and now waiting to see how it goes.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
On Security
I am reading an article on security hashing, and when the authors mentioned the reason why one type of hashing is better than the other, here is what they said:
Think about it. Twice the smart, how elegant, how measurable, and how exact. Even though there is a word 'literally', but I still think this reason is really funny.
If this argument ever makes sense, then we must say Google products have a lot of smart. :)
Bcrypt was invented by two smart guys and PHK’s was only invented by one smart guy. That's literally twice the smart
Think about it. Twice the smart, how elegant, how measurable, and how exact. Even though there is a word 'literally', but I still think this reason is really funny.
If this argument ever makes sense, then we must say Google products have a lot of smart. :)
Sunday, May 09, 2010
On FreeBSD
I mentioned I would take a look on FreeBSD, indeed I did. However my journey was not a smooth one. In fact, the installation process was hung in the middle at the screen prompting for language. I tried both the amd64 and generic i386 images, all to no avail. I guess I will wait for awhile for the next FreeBSD...
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