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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
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..
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.
Stop using LYNX, load up some gfx browser and open the 3 links :)
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Duh. Should have followed the links. Clearly it's a standard photo on some public domain CD or something, there are loads like him.
Conversion Rate Optimisation French / English consultant
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 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
Clearly it's a standard photo on some public domain CD or something, there are loads like him.
Not news for nerds, not stuff that matters. Maybe it's a new form of commercial... time to go take a leak and when I come back, I'm heading right for the Reload button to see if I missed anything.
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...
...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.
http://www.ecora.com
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
I hope you don't read Slashdot to find stuff that matters...
No GNU has been Hurd during the making of this comment.
Whoa! News for me! I feel so special!
Because "It's funny. Laugh." - put the filters to use if you don't like it, or just ignore it.
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.
...nice guy, his friends call him "Zelig."
Why is Slashdot report on stock photos?
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
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!
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 {} \;`
He's also member of the Open Trolls Movement !
check by yourself
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.
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
Or better, pay me Evening English lessons for a non native English speaker ;-)
http://www.arsys.es/ How does he manage to reach all jobs on time?
Thanks for the laugh, I just about squirted my coffee out my nose ;)
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
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.
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>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.
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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
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.)
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.
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
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.
to that damn girl that's in like 4 out of 5 web pop ups!
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!
Yeah, you're special. That much is certain. ;)
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
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
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?
No it is to hide the fact that he is holding a Red Hat
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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...
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.
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"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
Gopher? Gopher? You can still find the occasional Gopher site. eg
gopher://wiretap.area.com/
I wanna know what happened to WAIS.
"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!"
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
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......
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.
They not-so-carefully took it out.
My $0.05 (AUD - we don't have pennies any more)
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.
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
News for Turds, Stuff that Splatters.
Bernie Shifman!
You're using her as bait, Master!
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.
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?
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!!!!!!
Did you notice how the red hat he has in his hand was blacked out in the picture on the SCO site?
> I am guessing by your username that there is a very sunny city in British Columbia with the initials NYC.
Maybe BC stands for Big Cloud. It's his "Indian" name.
> 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...
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...
You're not the brightest pencil in the shed, are you?
You must be a serious hoot at parties. Ever thought about going into entertainment?
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.
Mod the above redundant, Mr. Moderator please. The original spoof was "Porn for nerds, stuff that splatters", AFAIR.
Hey! The guy working for Arsys has a GREY hat!
I can feel my sanity, beyond my reach and slipping...
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.
this person was the most famous geek...
please me, have no regrets.
he's only 79.99 and royalty free
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
I'd like to take him to Canada and get married.
Oh drat. Wrong site.
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?
You came in for an argument and got abuse instead...
Sapere aude!
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.
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!!!! :)
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!
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??
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...
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.
Gotcha! (tee-hee)
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