FW: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: FW: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody


> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Mike Schwartz-PC Support & 
> Services done said:
>> So, my question is:
>>
>> What methods and equipment have the rest of you come up with to
>> overcome these problems?
>
> Haven't had those problems.  Kelly's usually in the other room, but I use
> both a headset -and- speakers and she can usually hear well enough to pick
> up on things if she wants to listen--yet still watch TV or listen to music
> without being distracted if that's what she's up to.  She's never had a
> problem with it, honestly.
>
>> Have you found comfortable wireless headsets (with microphones) that
>> allow you to move around the office and still stay connected to 
>> Ivocalize?
>> (I hate to wear a full padded headset over both ears when I'm working in 
>> a
>> client's office.  It makes it looks like I'm listening to music or 
>> watching
>> TV, instead of concentrating on their programming.)
>
> I have a PlanTronics that has only one ear.  It's -more- conduscive to
> answering the phone, although if I need to put the phone between my ear 
> and
> shoulder, I need to take off the headset, as it just doesn't work right
> with the shoulder that's got the free ear usually.  It's good for quick
> answers and anything for which I don't need the keyboard though.
>
> John and I were looking at their offerings for my new system, and they'll
> be releasing a wireless headset with mic in January.  It'll run $270
> though.
>
> I haven't seen or heard of any other wireless headsets, but I did pretty
> limited checking--mostly looking at what CompUSA had, and what PlanTronics
> was doing, since I like the model I have but just wanted to ditch the 
> wire.
> For $270, I'm not sure it's -worth- being untethered.  Especially since I
> don't walk around.  The convenience would be just one less wire to tangle.
>
>> I should note that at a couple of these places, filePro is
>> considered a "dead horse"; just kept in place as a "legacy system", so I
>> hope that a couple of you might mention vital business apps and new 
>> things
>> that you are doing with filePro!
>
> Even if I consider something a legacy system, there's a realisation that
> someone is going to keep it around because the cost of redevelopment and
> redeployment is too great unless there's tremendous incentive.  Given 
> that,
> it makes sense to still develop solutions for such environments that let
> them make use of modern tehcnology.  I'm working on such a beast right 
> now,
> though I'm unsure how widely it will be adopted.
>
> 'legacy' ne 'don't develop for'
>
> -Someone- has to support legacy applications.  There are still COBOL
> programmers around for a reason.  :)

One of my uncles lifelong friends and mine too I guess though "life long" 
resolves to a much smaller number of years in my case, was a cobol 
programmer for the state of NY. He made 2x as much money working 1/10 as 
many hours per week, and on HIS convenience & schedule, AFTER he retired and 
they had to keep hiring him as a consultant.

That's my goal. Work until I drop, and be making more per minute the day I 
drop than I do per hour now in my mid 30's :)
Computers are GREAT.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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