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Why PHBs Fear Linux

Posted by michael on from the if-windows-is-the-answer-you're-asking-the-wrong-question dept.

Tin Foil Hat writes "Paul Murphy over at LinuxInsider examines the role IT text books play in business school curriculums and the misconceptions and misinformation that they present to students. If you've ever wondered why your PHB just doesn't get it when it comes to UNIX and Linux, this article is for you."

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  1. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the heck is a PHB?

  2. frizt parsed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    am i rite folks?

    pf33r the trailblazer stats:
    300 GB transferred in a day from a single dual-pentium II machine.
    http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/admin/stats.html

  3. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRIST PSOT!

  4. php boss ain't wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/feb04_pie.gi f

    hyuk hyuk

  5. PHBs HATE LUNIX BECAUSE LUNIX = NERDY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most PHBs are only interested in sleeping with lots of chix and making lots of money. Who wants to go for lunix when no chix dig it and there's no money involved?

  6. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WRONG!

    FRIST POSIX!

  7. Players Handbook by Otto+Eyebiter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about my DMG? Are we talking 3.0 or 3.5?

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    01100101 01111001 01100101 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010
  8. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always thought Dilbert's pointy-haired boss was sort of a semi-subliminal visual representation of "pin-headed bastard," which has the same acronym. I thought it was sort of genius, because you can have cartoons of the "pointy-haired boss" pinned up on your cubicle wall, and your PHB can see it, and you don't have to worry, because it'll never occur to someone of his mental stature that it really means "pin-headed bastard".

    In fact, one of my PHBs said, not long ago, ``I don't "get" Dilbert (cartoons).''

    Of course, it could just be a coincidence.

  9. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Sivar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just wanted to point out that the parent post was made all of two minutes after the first post, yet was moderated as "redundant." Was it reasonable to expect that the parent would know that in-between the time that s/he read the question and the time s/he clicked on "reply", that the question would have been answered?
    Was punishing a person for answering a question (what is a PHB) the intention?

    --
    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
  10. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Actually, Pin Head is one of the main characters in Hellraiser. You may think that the that is proper comparision, but anyway, PHB = Pointy Haired Boss. "

    Homology, hows it going? uh, YA, say did you get the memo on the new coversheets for the TPS Reports

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    http://saveie6.com/
  11. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always thought the wee tufts were allusive of horns, so that the PHB has a sort of bumbling satanism thing going on...

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  12. Re:If you've ever wondered why your PHB... by Homology · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Actually, Pin Head is one of the main characters in Hellraiser. You may think that the that is proper comparision, but anyway, PHB = Pointy Haired Boss. "

    Homology, hows it going? uh, YA, say did you get the memo on the new coversheets for the TPS Reports

    As soon as I get my pins arranged properly, I'll tell you in person.
  13. Re:How about the article itself? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Look, there are a heck of alot of really smart people"

    You are not one of them. There is no such word as alot, it is two separate words, "a lot". You do not say alittle as one word do you.