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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."
I think you should just take a look at the pics on the sites linked to in the article...
Stop using LYNX, load up some gfx browser and open the 3 links :)
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
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
look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm
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.
http://www.ecora.com
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
Because "It's funny. Laugh." - put the filters to use if you don't like it, or just ignore it.
http://www.arsys.es/ How does he manage to reach all jobs on time?
I think he was just put in there just now.
Neither Google, nor the Wayback Machine can find that site.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
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?
http://www.ariba.com/company/company_overview.cfm
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
Ryan McVay is the photographer.
According to this site
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.
At Dunwoody!
This threw me, until digging through the results I found this, and the variations this, this, this, this. It's just a bunch of sample text and imagry for a web design company. I'm guessing the many, many sites using the text are purchased that web design company's services. There are other similarities. Many of the derived sites are using the same bulleted list of people with links using javascript to replace the URL with "Details...". I'm definately thinking this is all contracted work from a really lazy web design company. Interestingly, some are still using the same stock. photograph.
God, there are so many of them. I only hope the web design service was cheap.
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But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo
The photo's page on gettyimages says "Release Information: This image has a signed model release", so it sounds like he didn't get paid a cent for each usage.
GROGGS: alive and well and living in
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.
Unfortunately, the smiling families were stock art, and the real life individuals lived in places such as Oregon. To my knowledge, none of the people in the ad spots were even Canadian. Oops.
~Idarubicin
This guy can be found here too... jack of all trades
> screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
.com age.
a.k.a. Waldo Chen who even appears on my ReplayTV channel guide. He is the poster child for the
--H
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!!!! :)
http://www.sco.com/products/authentication/
http://www.sco.com/images/auth/newauth.jpg
(Notice the word "new" in the image filename?)