The solid state drives seem to be the future but I'll wait for them to be tweeked more before I buy into them and the cost comes down. Anyways, jumping on board the minnesota crunchers.

Very interesting. I would be a little suspicious of a bank offering a high rate of interest when all others are less. Beware the Bernard Madoff effect.



I have worked for both the private and public sector. In the public sector all of the salaries here are public. Never bothered me that others would know how much ( or little) I made. I do find it quite surprising that it is so open in Finland.

Speaking of Luxembourg the country, the village of Luxemburg (slightly different spelling) is nearby in Stearns County.

[url]http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~susanna/luxembur.htm[/url]

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Still some banking stuff....

It's funny, but it seems to me that lot of engineers end up to be bank manager...
Maybe best example is head of ECB. He's first career choice was engineer, some sort of....

Well,
I have once be doing bank transition, were bank was moved from system to another.
They did not aloud us enter to bank offices by selves, there was always bank manager(s) there with us.

Migration did not went as planned and I did have lot extra time to talk with these fellows and "too many" of them were engineers originally.
One was actually running private/corporation office.


About transition itself.
It was originally time budgeted way that we just walk in, do migration on SW -layer and leave.
When we enter first office, I notice that all HW's were actually on cartoons.

Time when we did migration was one holiday when bank are not open, so there was frigid time window to do everything.
I was lucky on there that on my first office there was two male manager. Their holiday start after their office was migrated, so I did hint silently that if you would give us helping hand with these cartoon, then we finish few hours earlier and you can start your holiday.
So we start work together and talk lot together about everything. And we all did get home on that night.

I did have contact list for all offices of course and next day there was two female managers, and those HW's were simply too heavy/much to carry by ladyes.
So I did get quite urgency to found extra hand to our team, and I did get some student to help us and everything went finally fine.

Well from my part it did. GAN -team was on India and everything on there did not went as smooth as possible, but it was not my problem


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Welcome wfowler!! Nice to have you on the team.

I've been keeping an eye on these graphs that Sekrob has. He updates them quite frequently and just updated them today.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=18277
The rice project time is going down and now is due to finish end of this year. It will probably end sooner than later.
Personally I like to work on the projects that are the closest to ending. It's a closure thing I guess. If his graphs hold true rice will end first then Dengue fever and Clean energy finishing last out of the three. Hopefully they get the bugs out of the Clean Energy project soon since a lot of people have stopped running them all together because of the huge error rates.
Bed time...