Slashdot Mirror
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!
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...
As a lynx user, i don't exactly get the point..
IPSwitch and Plesk now have to pay SCO $699 per
page view
- cnb
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
I made screenshots of her from lycoris and mannotincluded.com
Does anyone know more places?
look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm
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
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)
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.
He can even change his Color Balance without moving his hands.
...nice guy, his friends call him "Zelig."
Why is Slashdot report on stock photos?
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
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.
http://www.arsys.es/ How does he manage to reach all jobs on time?
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... ;)
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
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?
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.
http://www.ariba.com/company/company_overview.cfm
>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...).
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
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
http://www.aiudunwoody.com/bachelor.asp
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.
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.
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
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
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.
By reading this sig, you agree to the terms of my sig license.
. . . 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? ;)
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.
That could be explained easily by the "FUNNY" tag to the right of the story on the main page.
It's HUMOR. Funny. You're supposed to laugh.
Why do so many people lack a basic sense of humor?
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
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
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
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.
Hey! The guy working for Arsys has a GREY hat!
I can feel my sanity, beyond my reach and slipping...
This guy can be found here too... jack of all trades
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
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!!!! :)
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!
http://www.sco.com/products/authentication/
http://www.sco.com/images/auth/newauth.jpg
(Notice the word "new" in the image filename?)