[clug] Re: Linux Systems Administrator Canberra
Michael Tomkins
michft at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 01:46:25 GMT 2007
On 14/02/2007, at 11:00 PM, linux-request at lists.samba.org wrote:
> Darren said:
>
>>> My bad, you cannot browse directly to the URL since the
>> site requires
>>> a cookie that is loaded in the top level page.
>
> If so, my 2c worth:
>
> - I'm looking from work, using IE6 with cookies and everything else
> turned on,
> and the message is:
>
> "We have tested your browser and found the setting for cookies
> has been
> turned off."
</lurk>
meh.
> Clearly the interrogation is faulty.
>
> - any site that requires cookies to be enabled in order for the
> site to be
> functional is broken. Cookies may provide some convenience; they
> should
> never be a functional prerequisite.
Agreed
> For an organisation like NICTA to be running such a site is sad
> indeed.
>
Check URL, not www.nicta.gov.au but nicta.net.au
http://nicta.com.au/ as well ?(
Had graduate interview with the people funding these guys ( http://
www.dcita.gov.au/ ), was extremely short and got distinct impression
that a PR person was running the show not an IT. Had no clues about
what net could do, but what net could be sold as. And how we could
leverage our department.
> Fred
OMG, NICTA have a "Mission" statement. When all else fails, rewrite
your mission statement.
You too can have a mission statement like theirs.
http://www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm
They have values too!
"NICTA is an exciting, empowering and creative environment..."
http://nicta.com.au/director/aboutnicta/our%20values.cfm BINGO!
And it appears that someone has taken the ball and run from the
building, with ~$380M.
http://www.dcita.gov.au/communications_for_business/
funding_programs__and__support/ict_centre_of_excellence
And if we're selling jobs, anyone got one for a BE CompE / LLB
graduate. *nix appDev|DB Pref.
<lurk>
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Michael Tomkins
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