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."

Comments

Sadly I have a job

[bharatman]

Try me again in a year!

Re:Sadly I have a job

[marbike]

Ah, but I am being made redundant within the next fortnight. You can give me the jod instead.

Re:Sadly I have a job

[McNally]

Ah, but I am being made redundant within the next fortnight. You can give me the jod instead.

I'm sorry, the only position we have available is copy editor..

Violet laser beams...

[warmcat]

... 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 KNOW that guy...

[Toddimer]

I saw him Leaving the Australian customs department with a couple of mainframes!

Re:I KNOW that guy...

[Stephen Samuel]

No way. He wasn't "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance". Only people "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance" can be bad guys.

It's a disguise you idiot!!!! This is what he really looks like!

Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

[Bowie J. Poag]

This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.

Re:Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

[Humba]

> 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.

--H

Who?

[Anonymous Coward]

As a lynx user, i don't exactly get the point..

What this really means is...

[cnb]

IPSwitch and Plesk now have to pay SCO $699 per
page view

- cnb

And here comes his sister, the most famous female

[presroi]

I made screenshots of her from lycoris and mannotincluded.com

Does anyone know more places?

no Red Hat

[bhny]

look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm

Re:no Red Hat

[The-Bus]

Worse than that, it's not even a good cover up. The same people who direct the legal team must be in charge of directing their graphic design intern.

Intern: "Uh, sir, what should I do with this red hat here?"
Mr. Turd McShitforbrains (VP): "Erm... mmm."
* stares at screen *
Mr. T McS: "OK, uh, select a black airbrush, 80%, multiply. Just sort of let it hover over the hat, AND THEN MAKE A DIAGONAL LINE THROUGH HIS SHIRT."
Intern: "Like this?"
* looks at result *
Mr. T McS: "Ohhh yeah"
* pantomimes driving a golf ball *
Mr. T McS: "Good work -- you've been promoted to the litigations squad."

it comes this..!

[Grummet]

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

Re:it comes this..!

[ejbst25]

Ryan McVay is the photographer.

According to this site

Re:Who?

[kfg]

"which is quite an acheivement considering my 15 years of web browsing..."

Which is quite an acheivement in and of itself.

KFG

Photodisc

[ChiaBen]

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...

Re:Photodisc

[echucker]

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

[ckrause]

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

[dr_labrat]

http://www.ecora.com

Re:knows auditing, too

[epsalon]

A clickable link for the lazy

Re:News for retards

[retards]

Whoa! News for me! I feel so special!

Re:News for retards

[Anonymous Coward]

Because "It's funny. Laugh." - put the filters to use if you don't like it, or just ignore it.

He also has Superhuman Powers

[cyber_rigger]

He can even change his Color Balance without moving his hands.

Re:Who?

[Zork the Almighty]

I bet all the subsribers were thinking the same thing 20 minutes ago : "What the fuck ? We're paying to see this _crap_ early ?"

Mystery IT kid's dark secret!

[gad_zuki!]

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.

Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret!

[DuctTape]

Sorry ladies, but if this guy exists he probably plays for the other side.

Microsoft?

DT

Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret!

[glwtta]

and read Slashdot, sometimes several times a day.

Describe this "discontinuous use of slashdot" idea, it intrigues me.

This is an old one ... KopyKat Kompanies ?

[Hogbert]

I found out the following some time ago....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-88 59 -1&q=proud+of+our+products%2C+services%2C+and+tech nology%2C+nothing+matches+the+pride+we&btnG=Google +Search

"It it's good, why change it" :)

wrapup: 5 urls so far

[stray]

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?

Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart

[azaris]

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.

Re:Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart

[ip_vjl]

Stock photo = ~$25

Setting up good camera equipment (no, not your $200 digicam) with real lighting so that you don't end up with hotspots and unwanted shadows and having someone with enough knowledge to use it properly = ~$1000.

Which would you rather pay for a graphic on a site that will probably change in 3 months?

Famous faces

[dragondm]

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!

He is a bachelor it seems.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Who?

[plumby]

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.

Re:Who?

[ls -lR]

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.

He's got a Bachelor's Degree

[Tolomak]

At Dunwoody!

I know his sister...

[d0n quix0te]

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

Guy must need a job too...

[soward]

Looks like he's only got the one shirt and hat.

SCO sues Photodisc for copyright infringement

[d0n quix0te]

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.

Umm...no.

[buffy]

He's a model, not a geek. How can anyone possibly confuse the two?

-buf

Re:And here comes his sister, the most famous fema

[cbiltcliffe]

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.....

The interesting thing I found. . .

[Fantastic Lad]

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

I hate you, and everyone like you.

[SatanicPuppy]

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!