Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 12:39 schrieb Sven Burmeister:

I think this is due to the latest build of the kdm-package. Try pressing CTR+D, apparently that works around the issue.

Thanks! What exactly does Ctrl+D do? -- David Geiger info@david-geiger.de

Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 11:57 schrieb Carny:

Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

She wants to do a speech on kdm boot problems? You've jumped in halfway through a thread, and you haven't given any indication on what topic this speech needs to be, talking about kdm boot problems doesn't seem to be the right topic for a speech to employees by a new boss... ;-) Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Perhaps you friend should try out this place http://speeches.com/ Carny wrote:

im sorry..she needs to give a speach. Topic basicly shes there new boss, and they must replort all the problems to her and stuff like that..im not really good at this ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wright" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] OT: Speaches

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Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 11:57 schrieb Carny:

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Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

She wants to do a speech on kdm boot problems?

You've jumped in halfway through a thread, and you haven't given any indication on what topic this speech needs to be, talking about kdm boot problems doesn't seem to be the right topic for a speech to employees by a new boss... ;-)

Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 12:16 schrieb Carny:

im sorry..she needs to give a speach. Topic basicly shes there new boss, and they must replort all the problems to her and stuff like that..im not really good at this ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wright" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] OT: Speaches

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Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 11:57 schrieb Carny:

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Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

She wants to do a speech on kdm boot problems?

You've jumped in halfway through a thread, and you haven't given any indication on what topic this speech needs to be, talking about kdm boot problems doesn't seem to be the right topic for a speech to employees by a new boss... ;-)

I can't really help with what to say, you haven't said what sort of industry, what sort of role she has, formal or informal etc. But I'll give a couple of hints on manner and content... Assuming it hasn't got to be too formal and conservative: Make it humorous, relax, make direct eye contact (but not when you are talking about "bad" things that happen :-P), appear laid back - if it is in the office environment, come round the front of the desk so there is less of a barrier between her and her audience. Lean back against a desk or something, even sit on the edge of the desk to make it feel more friendly and less formal. Make some slides with the key points if you have a projector or big screen available. Don't write the whole speech down, she isn't a politician, so reading the speech 100% verbatim from a script gives the wrong impression, use the slides, or a bit of paper if you can't have slides, as a prompt with just the key points. I'm currently lecturing on software re-engineering at the local Uni, I have to talk for between 1-2 hours at a time on technical subjects, partly in English and partly in German, which can get dry and boring, so I ad-lib a hell of a lot to try and keep it lively, getting a good laugh off at the beginning can get the audiences attention. I think my best lecture was probably the final one before Christmas, which was 100% improvised, discussing my career working in IT, funny things that had happened and reacting to questions thrown at me by the students. I had a long speech prepared for my brothers wedding for example, I had it printed out in big text, but I started out by saying "I feel a naked standing here without my powerpoint slides today." That got just enough laughs to break the ice, and after that, I rattled off the speech and I think I glanced at my notes once, I got out everything I wanted to say, but it was fluid and 90% word-for-word what I had written. That's the key, know what you want to say, and know it well enough that you don't need to recite it from cue cards. If you make mistakes, laugh at them and carry on, don't stop and think about the mistake, just carry on and try and get back on track. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:16, Carny wrote:

im sorry..she needs to give a speach. Topic basicly shes there new boss, and they must replort all the problems to her and stuff like that..im not really good at this ==========

Carny, This sounds like a good start to me. "Hi, I'm <insert name> your new boss. You will now listen to what I have to say and report to me! Any variance from this order will surely cause trouble with the new boss, me. Now get back to work and have a nice day." And remember, have a lot of fun! ;o)

Carl Hartung wrote:

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:39, BandiPat wrote:

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This sounds like a good start to me.

"Hi, I'm <insert name> your new boss. You will now listen to what I have to say and report to me! Any variance from this order will surely cause trouble with the new boss, me. Now get back to work and have a nice day."

And remember, have a lot of fun! ;o)

This one gets *my* vote, Lee. It's about as clear and succinct as you can get!

Now, wait until the manager asks you to find all the unknown problems. ;-)

This is one of the most awkward places to find an answer to such a question, lol. Many of us are "nerds" and are a disaster at slick speeches. Try posting it at alt.managers or alt.liars i.e. 2006/2/28, Per Qvindesland :

Could you please specify a bit more, there is a lot of subjects that can be covered here :)

Carny wrote:

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Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

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I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start. Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;) James Knott wrote:

Carny wrote:

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Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

She can tell them about how great Linux is. ;-)

Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 13:55 schrieb James Knott:

Jonathan Brooks wrote:

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I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start.

Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;)

I thought spelling mistakes were the mark of a manager. ;-)

Only bad ones. I thought it was being quick on your feet, dodgy the pooh coming down and catching the good stuff on its way up, and always knowing what to say... Asking in a Linux forum doesn't sound like a good first action for a new manager... :-O

I've known a couple over the years, who'd you wonder if they ever finished high school. Then there are terms such as "solutioning" etc.

They probably went to university then. I am going through a Uni technical paper for someone at the moment. Uni's seem to love tortology and taking 30 pages to state the obvious without actually having written anything that wasn't cribbed from another publication :-( Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

On Tuesday, February 28, 2006 @ 7:47 AM, Matthew Stringer wrote:

This is about as surrealy off topic as you can get for this list!

Thinking about giving my Pontiac Trans Am a service; any recommendations on

oil?

Matthew

Well, I counted 13 responses before anyone as much as hinted that this was OT. Greg Wallace

James Knott wrote:

Jonathan Brooks wrote:

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I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start.

Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;)

I thought spelling mistakes were the mark of a manager. ;-)

I've known a couple over the years, who'd you wonder if they ever finished high school. Then there are terms such as "solutioning" etc.

Don't forget the always popular "we need to incent our subordinates" *S* Jim

Kevanf1 wrote:

On 28/02/06, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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James Knott wrote:

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Jonathan Brooks wrote:

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I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start.

Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;)

I thought spelling mistakes were the mark of a manager. ;-)

I've known a couple over the years, who'd you wonder if they ever finished high school. Then there are terms such as "solutioning" etc.

Don't forget the always popular "we need to incent our subordinates"

*S*

Jim

The one that always gets me - and it is relevant to computing - is the use of the words affect and effect. Too often they get misused for each other. Sometimes to the point where I have to sit and think about what the author is talking about :-)

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Kevan Farmer

Don't forget about ensure and insure. I've had to change 'insure' to 'ensure' more times than I can count. Jim

Jim Sabatke wrote:

James Knott wrote:

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Jonathan Brooks wrote:

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I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start.

Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;)

I thought spelling mistakes were the mark of a manager. ;-)

I've known a couple over the years, who'd you wonder if they ever finished high school. Then there are terms such as "solutioning" etc.

Don't forget the always popular "we need to incent our subordinates"

I guess they go to the same schools where they teach creative bookkeeping. ;-)

Ok I can only come with my own experience here (except from those lame links) please tell your friend that is she should experience any of the following symptoms: sweaty hand palms and shaky knees then it's always a sign that you are in for a really crappy start :) PS: It should be grill me not flame me medium or well done anyone??? ;-) Jonathan Brooks wrote:

I find that poor spelling on slides tends to have a bad effect on your audience - so "speaches" probably isn't a good start.

Perhaps she could tell them about spelling checkers ;)

James Knott wrote:

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Carny wrote:

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Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

She can tell them about how great Linux is. ;-)

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:57:29PM +0200, Carny wrote:

Please dont flame me on this...My one friend has just become a boss and now she has to give a speach to all her employees, and doesn't know what to say so she came to me, and i really dont know. Please if anyone can help out. I would really appreciate it.

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Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 16:54 schrieb Robert Morrison:

On Monday 27 February 2006 07:40, David Geiger wrote:

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Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 12:39 schrieb Sven Burmeister:

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I think this is due to the latest build of the kdm-package. Try pressing CTR+D, apparently that works around the issue.

Thanks! What exactly does Ctrl+D do?

Signals End-Of-Input. (Like Control-Z on Windows.)

Alright, so this is something like a manual EOF? :) -- David Geiger info@david-geiger.de