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The Most Famous Geek in IT

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. And here comes his sister, the most famous female by presroi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I made screenshots of her from lycoris and mannotincluded.com

    Does anyone know more places?

  2. Funny... by register_ax · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I think this story is a goof. The submitter of the story, Gushi, appears to be the geek in question. Visiting his site, and more specifically, his work page, you'll see:

    I make myself a not bad living as a system administrator and general techie for hire when the need dictates. I know basic HTML (I truly believe it's become an artists medium, and haven't bothered to learn more than the basics). I can code if four or five of the popular languages, as well as being good enough with most of the common OSes you might find, including several shades of Windows, several flavors of unix (free and commercial), and the macOS. I love this line of work.
    Wow. I better begin practicing my groveling...
  3. And he is taking a bachelor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://www.aiudunwoody.com/bachelor.asp

  4. Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart by azaris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. From the SCO link... by hankaholic · · Score: 2, Interesting
    SCO Authentication enables UNIX and Linux user logins to be authenticated in the same manner as Windows user logins--through Microsoft Active Directory. Users need only remember a single username and password for logging into Windows, UNIX, and Linux resources.
    Does anyone else think it's odd that SCO refers to Linux and UNIX as two distinct operating systems when they claim that UNIX has so been integrated into Linux that they're inseparable technologies?
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    Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
  6. He is a bachelor it seems. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.aiudunwoody.com/bachelor.asp

  7. Re:knows auditing, too by mistered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And, ecora managed to remove the red hat without making it look like a five year old did it!

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    Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
  8. I know him! by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He's the boyfriend of that girl who made a big deal of switching from MacOS to Windows!

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    Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
  9. The interesting thing I found. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 5, Interesting
    is in how blazingly immediate the three websites got the 'officialdom' knocked out of them in this little exercise; when you come at them from such a different perspective. --I've never approached a website from such an angle as this one before, looking for recurrning stock photos rather than lazily checking out services and driver archives.

    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

  10. Re:Umm...no. by poofmeisterp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, your own logic has defeated you.
    Out of context, and with no prior knowledge of you, any reasonably-able person would assume you are a football player if you were photographed in front of football equipment or were wearing it.
    A large number of those people would assume you are a football player if you were simply photographed on a football field.
    That's how advertising works.

  11. SCO changed the photo... by r00zky · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That guy is no longer in the SCO page

    That can only mean...
    ...people at SCO read Slashdot!!

    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!

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    I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path