Apartheid in Parking Lot

I just called to move out my car from my company alley because of my ID card color (RED). Because this is company policy to allow Blue card guys (internals) use the alley and parking of company.

* funny part is that alley is public place and is not for company at all

I really surprised and don't expect it from an international company, headquarter based on one of the socialist Scandinavia.

Eye Watching

From "The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression" by Bruce Barnbaum

With the eye able to see only small bits sharply at any moment, it must move about speedily to view the entire scene. It does not do so in an organized fashion like a TV scanner. Instead, it darts about randomly, up and down, side to side, picking out bits and pieces here and there, and sending these tidbits back to the brain at a furious pace. The brain processes this random data and puts it all together, like a mosaic or a jigsaw puzzle. While studying the scene the eye stops momentarily at prominent objects and sees them with real clarity, filling in the rest in a rather fuzzy manner. Thus, the eye does not perceive the whole scene with uniform sharpness or interest.

A Bit of Documentation

Every bit of documentation is worth as much as every line of that code. Document it, even for your Hello World.

God Bless You Dennis

Advice

Writing a long email is exciting, but reading them is prosaic;

Bribery

"the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage"

The first question is should I accept it where most or all people do it, so the first answer is absolutely not, it is not moral. But when it becomes part of organization culture and provide better opportunities for whom got it what can do. What must do when your manager or top level officers do ? Leaving the company is a good option if possible.

The worse thing is that you face it in technological company, where you expect the skills & ingenuity is the scale of progress & promotion.

These are just the questions.

Soalris Zone Initial Configuration

After installing new zone by zoneadm command don't forget to login to zone console by zlogin -C zoneName to complete zone installation and initial configuration.

If don't your services don't run on zone, no port open to listen for connection and many other misleading problems.

Change VC++ Win App to Console App

To change the windows application in Visual C++ to console after change the name of WinMain method to another name to prevent the linker to set it as entry point and add a main method you may get the error:
LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup

So you need another change in your project properties:
Project Properties -> Linker -> System -> SubSystem

and set it to
Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)

rather than
Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)

That suggested to the linker that maybe the program entry point should be “main” rather than “WinMain”