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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.
This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
Bowie J. Poag
As a lynx user, i don't exactly get the point..
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 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.
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
Whoa! News for me! I feel so special!
He can even change his Color Balance without moving his hands.
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...
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!
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 {} \;`
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.
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.
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.
No that's IPSwitch and Plesk who added the red hat. They are gonna be sued unless they pay the license.
No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
Worse than that, it's not even a good cover up. The same people who direct the legal team must be in charge of directing their graphic design intern.
Intern: "Uh, sir, what should I do with this red hat here?"
Mr. Turd McShitforbrains (VP): "Erm... mmm."
* stares at screen *
Mr. T McS: "OK, uh, select a black airbrush, 80%, multiply. Just sort of let it hover over the hat, AND THEN MAKE A DIAGONAL LINE THROUGH HIS SHIRT."
Intern: "Like this?"
* looks at result *
Mr. T McS: "Ohhh yeah"
* pantomimes driving a golf ball *
Mr. T McS: "Good work -- you've been promoted to the litigations squad."
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
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.
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.
>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...).
... a glitch in The Matrix.
sig
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
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
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.
Yeah, I think you are right. This guy definately looks like someone who would have a "my minivan" section on his web site.
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
Yeah, you're special. That much is certain. ;)
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
"GROVELING"???
He drives a frickin Mini-Van !!!
He said he made an "investment" into it.
Hey buddy, I have a few investment bridges that you may also want to look into.
SMACK
Sig it.
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
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
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.
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What? Can't somebody fix Lynx so it can render images as ASCII art!
. . . this guy shows up on websites that:
He's a model, not a geek. How can anyone possibly confuse the two?
-buf
So, what were you doing at mannotincluded.com? ;)
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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......
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).
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Open Source Sysadmin
Wow. I better begin practicing my groveling...
Yes, maybe he will let you categorize the miscellaneous garbage in his mini-van. Oh wait, he already did that.
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.
The beauty of it lies in the irony (yes, he *proper* usage) of both RedHat and SCO using the same image in their promotional materials.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
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...
Did BBspot just hack slashdot?
WARNING: there is a trojan on your
Hey! The guy working for Arsys has a GREY hat!
I can feel my sanity, beyond my reach and slipping...