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The Most Famous Geek in IT
Gushi writes "I want this guy to come work for us. He's famous. He's been everywhere. And he may not even know it.
He knows about Windows Mail Servers and all about
Open-Source Management Software as well as plenty about
the intricacies of SCO server authentication.
I want him to come join our team."
Try me again in a year!
... stabbed out of the DarlBot's unhealthy bloodshot eyes, scorching a black line across the very pixels of the JPG until the RedHat was just a blackened, charred area.
I saw him Leaving the Australian customs department with a couple of mainframes!
He appears to favour a Red Hat.
It's not Mr IKISSYOU II (geek version) is it?
Conversion Rate Optimisation French / English consultant
Why would the fact that three companies use the same clip art be of interest to anyone? This ranks right up there with yesterday's "Clouds are big" article.
This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
Bowie J. Poag
I think you should just take a look at the pics on the sites linked to in the article...
oh no stock photos run! :(
As a lynx user, i don't exactly get the point..
This is the official "God is everywhere" thread.
:)
Have fun
ah.... only looked at one of them, and decided they must have all been product links.
hrmmm. the danger of stock photos...
He seems to have, uhm, good, uhm, people skills.
Just because I can imagine doing a hippopotamus, doesn't mean I'd like to do it.
IPSwitch and Plesk now have to pay SCO $699 per
page view
- cnb
The Foot says this is funny. I want to believe the Foot, really I do, but I think it's been drinking and posting again.
I'm gonna take a minute to tell everyone to RTFA's. It's pretty obvious what they're talking about from there.
Stock photography.
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
I'm fairly certain this is supposed to be a humor submission. I have a few ideas as it seems that all of his requirements seem to contradict each other. For instance Microsoft Mail servers (closed technology), Open Source Management Software (open technology), and SCO server authentication (litigious technology). Therefore maybe this "famous person" doesn't exist. Just a theory, but I would be interested to know what it is all about either way.
I made screenshots of her from lycoris and mannotincluded.com
Does anyone know more places?
Check the department. It's funny. Laugh.
look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm
/., a "news for good english, stuff that warrants people attention" ?
./ you were reading before
You never been there or what ?
Maybe it was
His name is Zelig.
Never pet a burning dog.
I'm glad to see he escaped the World Trade Center in one piece. And it seems as though he's cleaned himself up and gotten a job...or two...or three.
Judging from the ones I know, the best looking geek in IT too.
He can play with my patch panel any day...
Just RTFAs! Yes! It is THAT easy! WOW!
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
...the chinese kid with the headphones is the piece of stock photography that's overused. god, i hate him. can someone track him down?
...then again, he is in IT.
slash. finally finds a way to write articles that force us to read the links!
It seemed like someone was stupid for a minute there and forgot his name...
Anybody got any ideas on what his name is?
My bets on Joe.
as in Shmoe.
It seems at Ipswitch his photo id name is
messaging.jpg.
Whereas at Plesk he is Mr. productPhoto.jpg.
Then over at SCO is the auth_guy.jpg.
All Hail AUTH_GUY!
He must a transvestite then if SCO is calling him an authentic guy. (No offense to the transvestite reading population, just seems to fit as far as SCO lying goes.)
Hmm. Anybody know his true identity?
sig shmig
"which is quite an acheivement considering my 15 years of web browsing..."
Which is quite an acheivement in and of itself.
KFG
Image number AA024508 at Photodisc (creative.gettyimages.com, select Photodisc). Scroll down in a mozilla browser, the guy who wrote this page obviously didn't care about us _REAL_ users... just the SCO's of the world. ;)
That's all for now...
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. " - Revolution Books, NY
I don't find it funny that three companies have by chance chosen the same stock photo. What's is completely ROTFFL funny is that fact that SCO uses the photo and tries to cover up the fact that it is a derivative work based on a red hat.
The guy u c in those pic is me, ya u guessed rite, i have been working on some secret projects of MS, where they r tryin to use OSS and that SCO activation, but puhleez dont tell Billy abt it....
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The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
He kill my 6 brothers during the war. I cry many night. I hate he have pretty face and expensive photo.
If you have more amusing url, just post it or submit a story...
No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
He can even change his Color Balance without moving his hands.
Presumably that one was taken inside The Matrix. I knew that guy from SCO looked familiar.
...on the SCO site
...nice guy, his friends call him "Zelig."
Why is Slashdot report on stock photos?
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
I'd love to find out if SCO have paid to use that image, its been badly mangled perhaps to make it less obvious if it had been stolen.. god I would love it to turn out that they've been up to more nefarious behaviour..
Notice how the SCO version has been badly retouched with a black stripe across the guys t-shirt?
They're hiding something... My guess is that he is wearing a Tux t-shirt...
if it wasn't such an incredibly bad pic. Look at the colour in that thing - it's awful. Personally, if somebody tried to sell me a clipart image gallery with samples like that in it, I'd be rather offended.
That, or the web designers involved in using that pic hire the photoshop work out to lobotomized monkeys.
I bet all the subsribers were thinking the same thing 20 minutes ago : "What the fuck ? We're paying to see this _crap_ early ?"
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
I think we all know who the most famous guy in IT really is. Don't mod me troll, you know it's true.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
http://www.aiudunwoody.com/bachelor.asp
SCO has airbrushed his RED HAT out- some significance perhaps...?
I noticed that.. So did my wife who laughed at it, even she got the joke
`find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;`
Most of the rejected stories were rejected within 3 minutes.
As the owner of some of the sites, I even checked that *nobody* proofed the given URLs in the meantime, which means my story do not get refused because of their contents, so, why should I submit a story at all ?
# 2001-01-01 21:16:48 GnuArt.org opens (articles,internet) (rejected)
# 2001-01-04 15:38:45 Icepack Linux reaching version 1.0 (articles,linux) (rejected)
# 2001-01-08 11:55:13 Intel 128Mb portable mp3 player (articles,music) (rejected)
# 2001-01-09 10:39:42 The smallest web server is TINI (articles,java) (rejected)
# 2001-01-11 11:22:36 Reiserfs Vulnerability (articles,linux) (rejected)
# 2001-01-23 14:11:05 Lego Pr0n (articles,humor) (rejected)
# 2001-02-07 10:24:51 What is the actual status of parallel micro-comput (askslashdot,linux) (rejected)
# 2001-02-12 15:10:52 Swedish Students clone the ARM7 processor (articles,tech) (rejected)
# 2001-02-22 12:31:03 Linux 2.4.2 (articles,linux) (rejected)
# 2001-02-26 09:08:26 GeForce3 Preview (articles,graphics) (rejected)
# 2001-03-22 05:30:41 Java 1.4 features announced (articles,java) (rejected)
# 2001-04-02 11:07:50 ThinkGeek April's fool (articles,humor) (rejected)
# 2001-06-22 12:20:57 Review : BeOS vs QNX (articles,be) (rejected)
# 2001-07-10 10:51:18 Be wants you ! (articles,be) (rejected)
# 2001-07-17 18:12:02 Chuck Moore's 25x Forth Multicomputer Chip (articles,hardware) (rejected)
# 2001-07-23 07:30:08 Forth - Small is beautiful (articles,programming) (rejected)
# 2001-07-27 13:25:19 Wolverine does it better with some help (articles,humor) (rejected)
# 2001-09-04 10:01:41 Unix is about 1,000,000,000 second old (articles,linux) (rejected)
# 2001-09-11 09:16:47 Torture testing backup and archive programs (articles,unix) (rejected)
# 2001-11-13 12:22:27 "Matrix Revisited" DVD to be shipped on No (articles,movies) (rejected)
# 2001-11-13 15:33:01 RiscOS On (Psion) Netbook (articles,pilot) (rejected)
# 2001-11-14 10:58:44 OS development implementation reference (askslashdot,programming) (rejected)
# 2001-11-23 11:57:03 "Le Decrypthon" (articles,science) (rejected)
# 2001-11-29 08:43:45 MP3 player for tape appliances (articles,music) (rejected)
# 2001-11-30 12:43:31 DeCSS banned (articles,censorship) (rejected)
# 2001-12-11 21:34:39 2 billions pages now indexed by Google (articles,internet) (rejected)
# 2001-12-18 10:19:14 BeOS code to be used in PalmOS (articles,be) (rejected)
# 2001-12-21 12:15:44 Microsoft Copyright Protection Patent (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
# 2002-01-03 16:27:27 GNUArt web site now available in English (articles,internet) (rejected)
# 2002-01-04 12:20:55 New RiscOS laptop (articles,hardware) (rejected)
# 2002-01-04 13:22:53 Jean-Louis Gassee resigns (articles,be) (rejected)
# 2002-01-10 15:02:06 New iMac not that original (articles,apple) (rejected)
# 2002-01-23 10:18:08 Cheap Sun Boxes (articles,sun) (rejected)
# 2002-02-06 09:56:29 who rules who ? (articles,links) (rejected)
# 2002-02-11 12:32:33 Linux PDAs (articles,pilot) (rejected)
# 2002-02-13 09:15:11 Augmented Reality Quake (articles,quake) (rejected)
# 2002-02-18 10:26:33 Freeware Java turn-based RPG (articles,games) (rejected)
# 2002-02-26 11:15:28 Rosetta Stone for Unix (articles,unix) (rejected)
# 2002-03-12 16:03:07 Cheap Linux handhelds for the Third World (articles,pilot) (rejected)
# 2002-03-14 14:34:50 Isn't slashdotting a form of parasitism ? (askslashdot,internet) (rejected)
# 2002-03-18 12:30:56 Pre-order your Sharp Zaurus now ! (articles,pilot) (rejected)
# 2002-04-15 12:51:22 How to fry an egg on XP (articles,humor) (rejected)
# 2002-05-22 12:32:14 Do not let your computer case open... (articles,humor) (rejected)
# 2002-05-31 10:48:49 "The Turk" - The oldest AI hoax (articles,tech) (rejected)
# 2002-06-28 15:54:03 Catalan Conjecture finally demonstrated (articles,science) (rejected)
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Jeez.... get a spell checker
He's also member of the Open Trolls Movement !
check by yourself
She's been there it seems.
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http://images.google.be/images?hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&o
Hmm, no glasses, no zits, no 'programmers belly', unthreatening but serious, fit, and wearing a t-shirt that fits with no geek logo?
Sorry ladies, but if this guy exists he probably plays for the other side.
I see your wife also modded you up. That's the only scenario that makes sense for the '4'
I don't use Photoshop, so I don't know which field that is - but two of the images have a comment field reading "Ducky"
Does anybody know what field that is ?
It's not me on the pictures. Score:5, Informative
Daryl McBride?
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Yeah. You didn't read the article or follow the links.
:)
If you miss it after going that, then you're just stupid
...of lying crap. We all know it's freaking you.;oPPP
1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!
http://www.arsys.es/ How does he manage to reach all jobs on time?
What's this - a slashdot post where I can't learn everything I need to know without clicking on the links. What is the world coming to! I want to be able to rant without having to look at the content... ;)
Maybe he'll pop up everywhere like Bert did for a while.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
I found out the following some time ago....
8 59 -1&q=proud+of+our+products%2C+services%2C+and+tech nology%2C+nothing+matches+the+pride+we&btnG=Google +Search
:)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8
"It it's good, why change it"
Microserf: 18.5% slashdot corrupt
There obviously was an older, not edited picture on sco's site, as can be seen in alta vista's image search results.
:-)
It seems they photoshopped it later.. go figure, heh
And now he's an expert in Slashcode too.
the guy shows up at these url's from the article plus sites found by readers and mentioned in posts above... so far:
- Ipswitch
- Plesk
- SCO
- Arsys
- Ecora
have any more to share?
There's also the spiky-haird screaming asian guy holding the headphones on his head.
He's sold everything from headphones to music to any sale that could be considered shocking. I want to shake his hand.
It's unbelievable how unimaginitive the photoart used on corporate websites and brochures can be.
At ork we used to make fun of the brochures for various business related software/hardware companies that always seemed to include the same type of photoart: a group of business men and women staring at a computer screen, pointing their fingers and going "ahh" at presumably how good the product was perceived to be. You could literally find this stuff in every single brochure you browsed through.
My guess is he is an actor that knows or cares nothing about IT.
That makes him just like most of the management at the place I work at come to think of it.
I guess those guys are running out of clipart of people. I remember a couple of years ago there was a picture of a man talking to a woman over a desk, and I found it out on 3 or 4 sites.
Even though that supergeek looks like me, a couple of years ago.
HEY! THAT'S ME! I WANT MY ROYALTIES!!!!1
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Welcome, visitor from the future. By the way, did the US end up catching bin Laden? The suspense is terrible... I hope it lasts.
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
>my 15 years of web browsing...
:-)
Is that you in disguise Mr Berners-Lee? 'Cause that's the only way you could have been surfing the web way back in 1988, and then only in your head, seeing as you didn't publish the protocol proposal until 1989
John (who remembers the excitement at uni in early '93 when the sys-admins first installed Mosaic alpha for general use and everyone tried hitting it's homepage at once. God, it crawled, give me archie anyday...).
What's the big deal about a guy being used in a photo on a few websites?
;-)
It's not like the text of the story refers to him directly, and says how great and wonderful he is.
It's just like seeing the same photo of a scantily clad woman, being used in both a Harley Davidson ad, and also in "Guns & Ammo" and figuring that she really knows how to live!
What if, instead of a guy in those photos, they all simply had a picture of the same mainframe? Would people be saying that one computer is running SCO, Solaris, Linux, AIX, etc? OR would people act a little smarter, and know that it's just a freaking stock photo and not worry about it?
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
... a glitch in The Matrix.
sig
Probably just a picture CD that design departments buy. they have thousands of pictures on there, and those 3 companies happened to have used the same picture on those pages.
AC coz I cant remember my password
The most famous geek in the world was Milo Hoffman!
Stephen
"Don't write down to your readers, the only people less intelligent than you can't read" - Sign on Newspaper Office Wall
I've got blue eyes and I can stand in front of a server rack. I'm obviously qualified!
Hire me!
Heh, So many companies use stock art for their websites & ad-copy, it can be amusing when somebody doesn't.
As it happens, the company I work for (www.rackspace.com) uses real pictures of it's employees in it's webpages & ad art. This becomes very amusing when somebody else thinks the pictures are stock clipart and poaches them for their own site. There's one pic of a guy plugging in some network cables that has wound up everywhere, including on the websites of several of Rackspace's competitors. The amusing part is that the guy in the photo is actaually one of the founders of our company!
-- -- The Dragon De Monsyne
... which code was "stolen" from SCO. He's gotta know, he knows everything ...
Whatever happened to gopher, man?
<toke toke> Those were the days....
Holy shit!! Glad I'm not your next door neighbor! (Or, I hope I'm not.)
It is likely that a little copyright infringement has occurred. I how that SCO wasn't the legal holder, so they can be blackmailed into giving up their Linux fight.
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
http://www.aiudunwoody.com/bachelor.asp
He looks like one of the nerds off buffy.
--
On Slashdot I'm a lawyer.
I'm using Lynx, you insensitive clod!
not gif. Works either way if pasted in an html file opened by Mozilla, but not IE.
web != internet
The truth about Led Zep should never be told on
Plesk is most certainly NOT open source. I know this is a bit of a nit pick on a humorous post, but none of the major hosting server management systems are open source, although the new 'VirtualMin' addition to the Webmin software is making an attempt at it.
mogorific carpentry experiments
moreover, we're all made of the exact same stuff.
if you're not involved in unprecedented evile, or a member of the walking dead, etc..., we have no quarrel with you.
if you are (a member of the already dead?), lookout bullow.
Yes the Internet did exist in 1988/89 and you could indeed browse Gopher, but the problem was that you claimed to be "surfing the web", which didn't exist in any form until October 1990. The Internet and the web are two related but different things. And no need to get abusive.
The picture clearly shows another reincarnation of CowboyNeal.
Personal redundancy is a skill - not a coincident!
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It's obvious that the other two companies are actually vampires!
Whatever happened to JonKatz?
to that damn girl that's in like 4 out of 5 web pop ups!
Troll coming on... I'm sure that this is just more proof that what many companies present and sell is not what they produce and deliver. Troll off.
;)
Good picture though, think I'll put it on my site under Support...
~8^]
I'm surprised this genius wasn't smart enough to switch from OS X to Windows. After all, I don't remember seeing him in that ad.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
As a lynx user you don't get much at all.
(BTW, kudos on a successfull "You insensitive clod" post without the actual "insensitive clod" part.
This guy is begging to have Tyler Durden photoshopped standing right behind him.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
Holy shit dude - complaining about dupe stories is a full time job, if you are gonna whine about dupe comments you'll have to give up sleeping.
sic transit gloria mundi
Has this evil grinning face been spotted anywhere else? I'm guessing it and the above pictures are from a stock photo cd for marketroids.
At Dunwoody!
When I saw the title, I thought CowboyNeal quit Slashdot and got a real job.
Even as you read this, your pants are strangling your loins! Aaa!
He was on the front page of securityfocus.com for a long time, also.
now where's a html tab when you need one?
Honestly calm down - okay people are nit-picking a bit, but still, you screwed up
Looks like he goes to the finest unaccredited University out there.
(Laugh, it's a joke -m aybe they are accredited, I have no clue!)
Should have previewed
What the fuck was this article about again?
Bot Assisted Blogging
We used some of our staff/call center people for website images. On of the girls we used for a livechat logo resulted in some rather funny chats. Customers would come into LiveChat sessions (mainly from the middle east) and want to talk dirty to her.
They're covering up the fact they have red hats! gwu hu hu!
SCO sprayed out the red hat in thier picture.
I might have to get my eyebrows plucked regularly, but I think I can take this job.
--Drunk as in Beer
You must be new here....
Ms Stock Art , a freelance writer . Remember her from a few months ago when she switched from Mac to Win XP?
See old Slashdot article
Looks like he's only got the one shirt and hat.
John Soward...University of Kentucky
And other self-appointed community leaders.
In what way is Slashdotting SCO not a denial of service attack?
In other new Darl McBride claimed that PhotoDisc is violating their sacred intellecutal property by distributing pictures of their smily network technician. McBride also sent invoices to Ipswitch and Plesk for $100 per page view.
In associated news Wall Street analyst Tom Wolfe of Morgan Stanley greeted the news by raising the rating on SCO from "Buy" to a "Strong Buy". SCO's shares are now trading up +$3.25.
He seems to be the antithesis of This guy.
By reading this sig, you agree to the terms of my sig license.
What? Can't somebody fix Lynx so it can render images as ASCII art!
And who but a true geek would have a pipe-organ built in his home?
Some may prefer Dennis Ritchie or even Richard Stallman...
must look like these guise?
famouse, so say the leased of the hostages?
So if there is a gettyimages for photos, where is the database for stock copy (text)?
-- it must be true, it's on the internet.
...but he's also my doppelganger!
(gotta repaste that link to get permission to view the photo, stupid ofoto bastards.)
At least, that's what I've been told.
-------
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
Noone's "whinning" here, moron.
And WTF does "as she has difficulties settings with what I give her" mean?
I mean, I think your trying to say something meaningful but mostly it just looks like you're a fucking retard.
Read your posts before you click Submit.
I don't know whether to be impressed and awed at the research skills of the person who was able to identify the source of this photo . . .
or to be saddened at the thought that someone had the overwhelming compulsion to search through thousands of stock images with the single-minded mission of finding the answer.
Prefers a little mystery,
Nerodias
Gopher? Gopher? You can still find the occasional Gopher site. eg
gopher://wiretap.area.com/
I wanna know what happened to WAIS.
They should sue the other sites for letting him have a red hat.
"Torvalds: They are smoking crack."
Isnt that the Microsoft kernel team?
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
. . . this guy shows up on websites that:
I'm not sure what the topic would be though.
He's a model, not a geek. How can anyone possibly confuse the two?
-buf
On the other hand, you could all have insanely good memories for faces, and just recall URLs where you've seen this guy, in lieu of his name.
I wish I had either skill. But come on folks, fess up... I want to hear your techniques!
You'll also recognize the highly improbable "babe in the server room" ( I think I most recently saw her on the product section watchguard's site) off the same disc.
"oohhh... I didn't know Schopenhauer was a philosopher!"
How much longer before someone photoshops him lugging away those mainframes? Or standing next to Mahir?
Now, if they used the AYB images as stock photos for this round of photoshopping, the recursive irony would be just grand, wouldn't it?
So, what were you doing at mannotincluded.com? ;)
c-hack.com |
from lycoris and mannotincluded.com
Does that mean pregnant lesbians prefer Linux?
Go ahead...mod me down. It's not like I have any karma to lose, anyway.....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
He's the boyfriend of that girl who made a big deal of switching from MacOS to Windows!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Joke in the subject line -- no need to mod this or even open it!
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....R belong 2 us!!! ;-)
-psy
I'm sure this has been said, but who can be bothered reading ~300 comments? Anyway, I find it sort of amusing that the slashdot editors are forcing you to RTFA in order to get the "joke". How inuative.
Apparently people want to see non-stock photos so badly that Rackspace is slashdotted?
Better free up some "rackspace" for additional web servers!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =3044104811&category=11216
I hate this guy, i don't know why...
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Very interesting... look closely at all three pictures again.
You'll notice that only in SCO's version of the picture was there any attempt to digitally remove the man's RedHat.
Hmmmmm......
Not only that, but he's very good looking too!
;-)
Hope to see him on www.fitlads.net soon
Yes, there's a woman that shows up frequently on ads. Here's my web page about her:
. ht ml
http://british.nerp.net/commentary/mysterywoman
Well, now I know what picture to put on the ID I send to the RIAA.
--Joe
that is conveniently brushed/blacked out in the SCO page, and kind of hidden on the ipswitch page?
"Other bands play, but Manowar KILLS"
How do I get this funny feeling that someone's been hacked?
In any case, I'd be pretty pissed off if I had paid to see this story early.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
If you look closely he is obviously a Dell fan. I think I will pass.
Dude, your *not* getting hired.
... he has one in his had after all.
They not-so-carefully took it out.
My $0.05 (AUD - we don't have pennies any more)
Now we know why Ciny Margolis claims to be the downloaded woman on the net. She can't keep pace with this guy!
He's just a model, he doesn't know anything, he's not as smart as a real geek, and he makes $5,000/day! But it's temp work.
Fortunately, there is a permanent job for pretty faces who don't have anything more demanding on their minds than which socks go with which cologne that lets you stay employed permanently -- even past age 30! It's called 'executive'.
If you're a real worker, don't fold your arms like the picture. When you reach thirty, you may feel entitled, but if an executive sees you, your position will wind up on one of those lists.
CLIP Art. Licensed to killer apps.
I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.
There's another girl...actually, one particular photo of a girl...that I see all the time. As irony would have it, can't find an example right now.
It's the shot of the cute doe-eyed blonde with a laptop looking up at the camera, shot from above with some slight figh-eye lensing to give a kind of foreshortened feel to it. I know I've seen her advertising Yahoo! Mail, a singles service, various computer e-tailers, and even on posters in train stations. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
That guy was just in here about an hour ago fscking with the laser printer down the hall!
Ryan took a photo which might have been more appropriate for the SCO site. Perhaps with some minor fecal photo editing...
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
I mean, what the hell does an image of a guy leaning against some computer stuff have to do with anything on any of these sites? It's silly! Dumb, even. Why the heck is it there? Is it like a fridge magnet or something? Is it holding up a grocery list? --And yet, when you don't think about it; when the average surfer arrives in a haze of predetermined, unoriginal behavior, such images DO hold power. Lots of it. --Perhaps more power than any other element of any of the three pages.
Advertising works for a reason.
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo, or if you realize that he's a model who probably may not even own a computer. . . Hell, just having the graphic formula made plain causes the haze of 'officialdom' achieved so effectively by the graphic artists' parallel lines and colored boxes and their officy-'very important' fonts, gets neatly blown away in the sudden wind of one's mind upon waking up for a moment. This is an example of the real power of the mind; a power very much feared by advertisers and the powers that be. This is why, in part, they like to augment the process with the introduction of anti-depressants, fluoride and various Monsanto additives to the population.
Deconstruction is always fun!
-FL
Did all of the subscribers from Fark migrate to /. while I slept last night???
In my Cisco academy class, the teacher once said (and I shit you now), "Port 80, what's that for?" Some dipshit in the back said, "The Internet." To which the teacher responded, "Yep, that's right!"
Good gawd....
thanks for making my day. something so seemingly pointless, yet you had the guts to publish it, and look how many smiling faces are walking around their offices this friday! nice job.
not that it's uncommon, but... this stock photo was used at least twice, by admittedly prominent companies. moreover, these appear to be the work of the same designer: http://www.rachelhinman.net/ .
http://www.brio.comhttp://www.microsoft.com/tv/
The most famous geek is clearly Zero Cool. He's the guy who took down the NY powergrid at the age of 12, and fined a ludicrous dollar amount.
Kinda odd, that a kid is forced to pay a buttload for a failure, but in reality the power companies fuck it up themselves and nobody's sueing (yet).
I Browse at +4 Flamebait
Open Source Sysadmin
You mean you don't SEE the point?
His stint at SCO has left him decidedly green, compared to his other positions. Wonder if he'd just been speaking to Darl?
EVERYONE who's ANYONE knows that this guys is a cardboard cutout.
A cardboard cutout that makes 10x what the average sysadmin makes.
Fred's guide to karma whoring:
1. Post something with the term RTFA in it (even better when TFA doesn't exist to R because the post was supposed to be FUNNY)
2. ???
3. Get modded up as Informative.
I'd ask the moderators to pull their heads out of their asses, but the suction would probably kill them!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
J. Random Hacker
MOD this UP!
That's funny, but I always called those little furry creatures that played in the water under the bridges dogs.
'And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few...'
Windows MAil SERVER?
SCO authentication?
How the HELL does that couple with open source management software?
Why do people always want my BEST skill, and two other skills that no one in the world wants. It's like, "We want a Java programmer with massive database experience...Who is a hemaphrodite, and can speak fluent sanskrit." AAAAAAAAAA!
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Surely someone will know who I'm talking about. She was featured prominently in many ads in Computer Shopper, going by various names - Kathy, Susie, etc.
She was a blond, longish hair, with a telephone operator's headset and a silly smile. I seem to recall her being common on CDW or Micro Warehouse ads.
I think that particular stock photo set the record for reuse.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
One would think so with our market share.
(it's a joke)
-no broken link
yadda
... it to be the Star Wars Kid. I assume now people will be looking for more ads with his face in it. You gotta wonder, was this canned art they purchase or did they steal it.
Bernie Shifman!
You're using her as bait, Master!
Anyone here know what a stock photo is? I suggest doing a search on the Web if you don't. Oh, and I prefer Metacrawler to Google, you insensitive clod! But, that's just IMHO. Wow, I'm getting a lot of Slashdot randomness here. Now all I have to do is talk about Soviet Russia, ??? -> Profit and of course, that .sig I don't have. Satisfied, CowboyNeal?
"Snegro" sounds like "sneeze".
Take back the motherland! *achoo!*
I wonder if he stopped using the Mac OS and started using Windoze too
I ran a couple of steg algorihms on the images and I was able to decipher the following text message after several hours of number crunching...
"Help I am trapped in the server closet with this webcam as my only means of communication!"
Somebody help that poor guy!!!!!!
Wow i am on slashdot, Yes sir, i will take that job!
SimonTek
> the teacher once said (and I shit you now)
Normally if you're going to "shit" someone, you don't warn them beforehand, unless it's a bad joke.
Case in point, my company put out a mailer featuring a nice looking woman in a trenchcoat, holding the trenchcoat closed, showing a little leg at the bottom, with the caption "I have something Graphic to show you." The mailer opened folded open, with the edge of the mailer flap following the edge of the woman's trenchcoat. Open the mailer to find...... an ad for our graphical operator interface terminal!
... Yeah, we got lots of negative feedback from that ad campaign... ;)
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
His website says he's into LARP. The guy in that photo is about 100 pounds, 30 pimples a ponytail and .187th of a beard away from qualifying for a live-action role-playing group.
I do both, 8yrs in network/security admin and about 3yrs as a print/fitness model. Note: I am straight and currently the Network Operations Manager for a well-known studio. So it's not that far a stretch.
This guy looks the same on all photos.
Loved the Woody Allen move. Thanks for reminding me.
Help fight continental drift.
Did BBspot just hack slashdot?
WARNING: there is a trojan on your
Say, ain't that the mailroom kid from building 110 at SSD on Cottle Rd?
Whuffo you say dat Willis?
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
He looks cold. I, for one, welcome our new server-room hard-nippled overlords. Maybe the next few shots from that day can be used for X10-cam ads.
I'd be a little green around the gills if I worked for SCO too, though he must be holding his breath for the pose at Ipswitch --- he seems to be turning a purplish-blue.
check out this work of ryan's...
My company -- of which you have heard, though I'm not going to mention it -- put up a graphic based on employees. Unfortunately, our employees form a typical tech demographic profile, not the US-wide politically correct demographic profile. I.e., there were very few black or hispanic people in it, but many whites and asians.
Boy, did we catch hell for that.
One advantage of the stock photos is that they've been reviewed for all kinds of Political Correctness, including minorities or issues you've never even heard of!
http://www.powerquest.com/support/
Looks like he knows Sun Raq's pretty well too. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= 3625502414&category=3779
Linux is for those who hate Microsoft. BSD is for those who love Unix.
Hey! The guy working for Arsys has a GREY hat!
I can feel my sanity, beyond my reach and slipping...
or Not As Annoying, perhaps.
I may be anonymous but IANAH. No offense for those who may be.
I don't want the guy to come work for us... He's obviously, if not the Devil himself, at least one of Satan's IT guys...
Beware, folks. Imail is evil. Plesk is evil. And then there's SCO...need I go on?
If you see this guy hanging around your server room, RUN AWAY!
DennyK
Note in all those pictures, he is standing in front of the same rack.
Have you noticed that he and his fiancee bought it back in Y2K, and he's still calling her his fiancee?
There's no pictures of the female, or any other references to her, but he spends plenty of words and screen space on his underage male friends.
Go on, tell us the real reason why you like LARP, Gushi!
this person was the most famous geek...
please me, have no regrets.
he's only 79.99 and royalty free
especially since the web started in 1991.
I just so happen to be available. Can you tell me more about your company?
This signature has Super Cow Powers
What's up with that ugly-ass distracting shadow across the front of him in their shot?
- CP
P.S. Anybody here work at GettyOne (or where ever this image came from) -- I'm curious to know if SCO is properly licensed to use that image.
(Sorry, I wouldn't be so lame but it just seemed to fit with your post)
www.clarke.ca
Obviously of Norton descent.
I'd like to take him to Canada and get married.
Oh drat. Wrong site.
It was probably a poster somewhere and they took a pic, then put it on their site. Now they will sue everyone who uses the pic saying they made it first.
I think i've discovered an unnerving relationship i call the grinning idiot principal.
The 'evilness' of a corporation is highly correlated to the number of 'grinning idiot' stock photographs on a companies website. For instance MS has 3 grinning idiots, IBM and Dell, only one.
Right now SCO has at least 4 GI's, maybe 5...
This relationship is not absolute however, computer associates site only shows racks, perhaps there are grinning idiots hiding behind them?
on securityfocus first, about a year ago.
You came in for an argument and got abuse instead...
Sapere aude!
i HATE vs.net with a passion.. Don't even compare vs.net to a real ide like borland together or rational rose. real oop design/code ide's. vs.net with visio is just a pos.
vs.net makes all my developers lazy and stupid..
me: developers you need to seperate the presentation from application from database layers.
dev dude1: What do you mean? I just specify the sql and the datagrid shows it. What is this layer you speak of?
me: cmon man? you learnt object oriented programming right? You know what an object is right? So why is the whole project 1 class?
dev dude1: well i choose add new webclass. Isn't that object oriented?
I know u don't have to use it.. and i actually like that i now have a full oop language for win32 but vs.net just makes it too easy to create shitty apps.
This is probably way off-topic, but anyway. Check the photo on the SCO website again (http://www.sco.com/products/authentication/) and then go to http://www.plesk.com/Product/index.php I think this guy is in a lot of trouble, given the fact that plesk only runs on linux and fbsd :)
This guy can be found here too... jack of all trades
Less than ten minutes ago it was the red hat guy. Now it's some serious looking chick who might fall into a tar pit before the third episode.
Lucky guy.
That guy is no longer in the SCO page
...people at SCO read Slashdot!!
That can only mean...
Let's greet them:
- I myself would like to show all my support to you in the case you're committing ritual suicide soon. Have a nice day!
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:mGZE0qQMFU4J: www.caldera.com/products/authentication/+&hl=en&ie =UTF-8
Click for the Google Cache of the SCO page, since they've changed it. Looks like someone at SCO has been reading /. a bit. They know where their threat lies. And its in using stock images!!!! :)
from SCO's site, as of 6:40 CDT. No, i wonder where else SHE's found...
The guy who appeared on the SCO page has changed to a woman, from what I am seeing.
Methinks someone from SCO watches slashdot very carefully. You jokers are almost acting like their watchdogs. Shame on you! Shame!
My bad...
while this guy's photo is nearly as popular as that asian kid with the headphones (it seems cutting edge), there are some stock photography rules that ensure such a thing won't happen
this image is royalty free which means once you buy it, you can use it anywhere for anything. The other category is rights-managed. For a rights managed photo you specify a category that the photo is used for, where it will be placed, and for how long it will be used. A quote is generated based on that by Getty/Photodisc, etc.
You can reserve a rights managed photo for exclusive usage in a specific category (e.g. I.T. - Computers) so this type of thing won't happen. It's not that this was an unfortunate coincidence, the companies were just too cheap to find a photo they could reserve and call their own. Any other company in that industry would not be sold usage rights.
Expensive, but it prevents these threads!
Check out this old SecurityFocus page :
s ecurityfocus.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020923120924/http://
'nuff said
What, haven't you compiled it with aalib?!
Turn in your geek license, buddy.
j.k.
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
http://www.powerquest.com/enupgrade
This may be funny, but Plesk isn't Open Source in any way. It is in fact encoded PHP.
I don't know what is more emusing than reading all the post or acualty think we all had nothing better to do but find the stuff in the posts life is great god save sco, no one else will...
Atleast on SCO's site it has... click click for the chick!
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.
http://www.sco.com/products/authentication/
http://www.sco.com/images/auth/newauth.jpg
(Notice the word "new" in the image filename?)
> I meant "shit you not"
I know, I felt like being a jerk, hehe.
Check out this PowerQuest Partition Magic update page :)
i just found him in an ad at powerquest website apparently, he will lead a disaster recovery seminar. maybe you can be lucky enough to meet him in person! http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagicpro/ direct link http://www.powerquest.com/ad/images/V2P_130x175a.g if