Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by one.good.guy

<WTH> Looking for Web UI Developer on Contract

one.good.guy — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:33:46 +0800

Role: Web UI Developer experienced at least with AngularJS and TypeScript.

Requirements: To be engaged as contractors with a tenure of 1 year (and may be extended to 2nd year). To be stationed at customer site with minimal monitoring.

Contact Person: Please drop me a message for further information, and your expected remuneration.

p/s:
-More information will be updated here once more details are confirmed.

Work vs Life

one.good.guy — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:31:11 +0800

I would guess that the most common question found in this thread is: am i underpaid???. My casual observation noted that most are doing fine and there are also those who are doing quite well.

To those felt being underpaid, I do not think any of us strangers here will be able to judge whether you are justly compensated as that does not rely on years of experience alone. There are other criteria such as your soft and hard skills which are the more important criteria of being remunerated handsomely- those we here will not know unless you and I happened to be working under the same roof.

Asides from skills and knowledge, effort is another criterion that is highly critical although it is now mandatory rather than a plus point in any organization. Management equates the effort put into the company to dedication. As such, more and more people are being trained (or rather willingly turned) into zombies: working countless hours, over off-days, being outstations for months, forfeiting annual leaves, foregoing lunches, missing personal rendezvous; all hoping their employers will notice their dedication and rewarded with higher remuneration.

In the chase of more money and glory, is it really worth it to slave out ourselves- time and energy, towards our employers at the expense of the quality of our personal lives? Will you be all right if you are asked to be outstations most of the time in return of good pay? Or foregoing all annual leaves because there is simply not enough time to finish up work? Or miss out most (if not all) good things in life just to take up that second and third part time jobs? After all, we have seeded in our mindset that if we do not work hard when we are young, when can we do it then? But at what expense?

If you are given the opportunity of a job that offers good pay (but not extravagantly) that require you to make great deal of sacrifice on your personal life (i.e. being away from family, 16-hours/day work, always on call, etc.), will you have second thoughts or money is all that matters? As in no money no talk?

Server Identification

one.good.guy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:29:16 +0800

I am connecting to a MS SQL database on a server using ODBC. I have created a data source referring to the database on that server using IP Address.

All in all, it is working fine till one day I restarted the server. From that points onwards, client ODBC connection using the IP Address is not valid anymore. Even trying Run -> \\ip.address.here yielded error message: "\\ip.address.here The network path was not found.". However, if I reset ODBC connection to point to the server using the server name, it is successful. Similarly, typing the server name in Run prompt opened shared folders on that server.

I would appreciate is anyone can enlighten me why connection to a server is not stable; need to switch between IP and server names at time.

Thanks a lot!