Easy Downloading

Yesterday I was trying to download some video files and all the links were directed to YouTube site. I watched all the videos that I wanted but couldn't download any of them coz YouTube is not allowing to download its embedded media files.

I did a google search and found a good" link ", When you give the URL of the file that you want to download it download the files for you but those video files can not be play in your Media player. Nothing to worry here comes our opensource friends to help with a nice player call VLC. Now no worries.

Professinalism

Today morning while I was coming to my room I met our Head of Engineering (HOE), he was in a bit of a hurry but told that they are going to do partition our IT room and the workers will start work within the next hour. I was astonished to hear that, because I didn’t know what are they going to do there or how they are going to do partition our room. Since Head of Engineering told me to speak to the Financial Controller, who is his boss and second to the GM to get more details.

Immediately I spoke to FC and he said HOE has the plan thus he has better idea than him so to speak to him. Finally we manage to bring both together FC & HOE with another Engineer who is doing this project. Finally both showed me how they have planned to do the partitioning. First important thing to note, none of these high rank people have informed this sudden change to the Head of IT (HIT). IT is a very important department in any office and we have 8-9 servers running here plus around 150 users and these Heads are trying to do the modification to the IT department with out the knowledge of the IT Head.

First place we thought that HIT is aware about this matter coz this has been passed by GM, and FC, HOE and others are aware about the change. While we talk with them we understood that this decision is not been informed to Head of IT. Since the HIT was not in our office I took a call to HIT and she wanted to talk to FC or HOE, FC was not there therefore I gave the phone to Head of Engineering and he refused to answer the phone saying he is just executing the task and decision making is not his duty. I forgot to mention that so called Head of Engineering is an AGM (Assistant General Manager - Engineering).

In the presence of FC, and HOE (AGM) when we raise the question whether they have informed this problem to Head of IT, they just nodded their heads and said will do..!! They are going to do the job now thereafter going to inform the relevant authority later. Is this the right thing to do..? Is this the way a top class Financial Controller and Assistant General Manager work?

What is the professionalism that these people have..? Top management is saying that they are just an executer and passing the ball to other people when questions are raised.