Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Is Software development a low stress career than Systems and networking based careers?

Q. In I.T Infrastructure related careers can be stressful bit and also help desk or software support that involves dealing with customers and fault resolutions a lot, is software development sitting quietly and developing in .net programming or something stressful ?

A. Well it really depends.. depends on the complexity of the design of the software specs. It can be as simple as coding a few lines, to a project that never ends (upgrades, add ons) etc.

From a social view, yes software development don't deal with much people, but they still do - you gotta talk to someone to understand what are their requirements in the software, you gotta make sure what you design fits those requirements, you gotta do quality assurance with the customer so that the end product is what they wanted. etc. You're bound to be in projects that require other team members with time lines, you will have to interact with other people albeit not as much as helpdesk would.

The more stressful and complex the job is, the more money you are bound to make. May I suggest if you worry about stress, to speak to a doctor or a therapist to teach you skills that can help you cope with stress.


what software to use for designing something on paper and the print it?
Q. i need a software to let me design what i want to be in paper with exact size and when i print it it will look the same. like i have 3 pictures and i want them to be on a A4 paper. so i want to be able to move the pictures where ever i want in the paper and change the size to whatever i want, what software should i use?

A. Open Office is an open source office suite which is absolutely free http://www.openoffice.org

Within that suite of programs there is an application called Draw which can be used to do simple page layout - although it is actually a drawing application by design, it will do page layout very nicely.

If you already have Microsoft Word, that will also do the job too (although it's not as nice to use as OpenOffice Draw).

If you want to go one step further, there is the more powerful desk top publishing software called Scribus - it's free too: http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus


What is the most cost effective 3d imaging software?
Q. When I say 3d imaging software, I mean things like auto desk maya, google sketch up, true space and etc. I am already affiliated with all of these programs, but they are extremely difficult to use (except for google sketch up). I need a program that gives me the ability to create realistic renders, make animated scenes (and render those too), easily create models and lets me export my animations. But I need one that is cost effective, in other words, I'd like more bang for my buck.

A. One word my friend.... Blender - http://www.blender.org , I'll not try and kid you here, the interface is quite daunting to begin with and takes time to learn, but the results you can produce are easily comparable to Maya or 3DSMax and the best thing about it is that it's completely free and open-source and that's about as much bang for your buck as you're gonna get. It will render out in over 15 formats including AVI, AVIJpeg, Jpeg , PNG, BMP etc etc, and as it is open-source there is a huge community of users, tutorials and forums freely available on the net to help you along the way. As an added bonus it also has a built in game engine that will let you produce stand alone executable games without any programming! What more could you ask? Check out what I produce with Blender here - http://www.spiceyoursite.co.uk or google Blender Art to see work produced by other users of this great software.


How do I report a yahoo user committing fraud?
Q. An unautorized charge for software that was downloaded listed a yahoo.com email address in the charge information - how do I report that email address?

A. Report it, forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov and to the abuse desk of the sender's ISP.
For yahoo, report them here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...
Choose Fraud as the reason for the violation you're reporting on.

You have your choice:
Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov
Castle Cops: depositscam@coldrain.net
Internet Fraud Complaint Center: ifcc.tp@fbi.gov
FraudAid Scam Reporting Email: scamreports@fraudaid.com
Fraudwatch International: scams@fraudwatchinternational.com
FBI Internet Crimes Complaints Center http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx





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