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Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed
avjt writes "Microsoft has terminated its CIO Stuart Scott for 'violation of company policies'. They won't elaborate. Now what do you think this guy has done?" Ya know, I'm positive someone reading this story knows the answer to the mystery... and they could post it anonymously and be totally fine because there will be a hundred other totally wrong guesses and it would be completely impossible to distinguish the two ;)
Holla at a playa when you see him in the street!
When I clicked "Reply to this" I was in the mood to complain about people bashing Mormons just for the fun of it. (You've probably guessed, I'm Mormon.) For some reason I lost that desire while the reply page loaded so I'm just going to point out that the earth could support far more people than we have living on it if we were more concerned about growing food and building infrastructure and such than waging wars and eyeing the land of neighbouring countries (and I don't just mean the U.S., I mean the world as a whole).
An there are people who switch from linux to windows. I'm guilty of that. I started off with a linux dominated system in '95. It had a a windows '95, small, partition on it to play games. Over the years that small partition got bigger but I was still primary linux.
Then I installed some red hat patches and for some reason my keyboard and mouse stopped working. The patches had nothing to do with the keyboard and mouse. camel meets straw. I formated the fucker that night and installed windows.
Two years went by and I need a server so I pulled together some spare hardware and installed linux on a duron 700. I used it for awhile keeping it current in the hardware. When I retired the linux box the hardware was a athlon 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM and Suse 10.2. I even tried to make it into a myth box but mythtv kicked my ass. After three days of fucking with it, I said "fuck it" and had mediaportal running on XP up in an hour.
Recently I needed the hardware the linux box was running on. So I moved the suse 10.2 to a mickysoft virtual server. It stayed as a virtual server for a few months. A couple weeks ago I tried to upgrade it to 10.3 The results where not pretty so I shut it down. It will probably be down for good.
Linux doesn't do what I need it to do anymore. I'm a photographer and linux just doesn't have the support for the equipment and software I need, like for the printers and photoshop. If you say gimp is as good as photoshop then your and idiot and need to just shut up.
recently I've been thinking about a Mac. I'm sure it will pass but not so certain it will pass in time....
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
MythTV kicked your ass? n00b. Had mine up and running in a weekend. Only recently stopped using it because I got a Dish HD DVR when I bought my house and didn't care to mess with making it work with that. *shrug* Would still be in use if my brother wanted to pay schedulesdirect or whomever for listing info and record stuff.