The Most Famous Geek in IT

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Posted by Hemos on Thursday September 4, 2003 @09:28PM from the a-man-of-many-faces dept.

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."

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no Red Hat by bhny · 2003-09-04 21:38 · Score: 4, Informative

look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm
Photodisc by ChiaBen · 2003-09-04 21:47 · Score: 5, Informative

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...

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1. Re:Photodisc by echucker · 2003-09-04 22:45 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  And by clicking on the image itself, you receive the following details-
  
  AA024508
  Photodisc Red
  (Royalty-free)
  
  Portrait of a Technician
  Ryan McVay
  
  This image may also be referenced as:
  85193
  
  Rights Availability
  Rights availability for this image cannot be guaranteed until time of purchase.
  
  Release Information
  This image has a signed model release.
That 's not what's funny by ckrause · 2003-09-04 21:47 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
knows auditing, too by dr_labrat · 2003-09-04 21:49 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.ecora.com

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1. Re:knows auditing, too by epsalon · 2003-09-04 22:55 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  A clickable link for the lazy
  
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Re:News for retards by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 21:53 · Score: 4, Informative

Because "It's funny. Laugh." - put the filters to use if you don't like it, or just ignore it.
wrapup: 5 urls so far by stray · 2003-09-04 22:47 · Score: 4, Informative

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?
Re:it comes this..! by ejbst25 · 2003-09-04 23:06 · Score: 4, Informative

Ryan McVay is the photographer.

According to this site
Re:Who? by plumby · 2003-09-04 23:44 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
He's got a Bachelor's Degree by Tolomak · 2003-09-05 00:19 · Score: 5, Informative

At Dunwoody!
Re:Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS. by Humba · 2003-09-05 09:56 · Score: 4, Informative

> screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.

a.k.a. Waldo Chen who even appears on my ReplayTV channel guide. He is the poster child for the .com age.

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