This is kind of a troll, but it's hard to imagine X in worse shape.. c.c The death of X wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. It seems to be somewhat over-relied on in the linux world.. not unlike some certain software house in the business world...
I dunno. I got 14,000 from them before they tanked. they owe me four weeks work and 2500 for my classes, but all in all I did allright.:p If it was a scam only Jim or Mike knew for certain. And either one wasn't very smart about executing it then.
I love how James sent it from Rich's account so Rich would take most of the flack instead. Very professional arse covering, if I do say so myself.
Notice the usage of Rich's full name, but the lack of James Hibbits's last name, as well. Perhaps James Hibbits is hoping people somehow think that "James" is a nickname for Rich. Any further opinions?
To be honest, after rereading my post I see my point wasn't very clear.My fault for posting at 4:00 in the morning or whenever. Anyway, the point i meant to make was that there are just.. ludicrious rumors flying around like this, and i really just want some solid answers.
We're really fucking pissed off. How do you think it would be to suddendly see a company you believe in go shooting down the toilet? TO be completley in the dark. Linuxgruven was what we did. I want to know what happened to the missing 250,000 dollars.. the three million so-and-so said he took home...I want to know who rang up a 7000$ phone bill.. why we never got any support accounts.. why the ball was dropped REPEATEDLEY. WHERE was the communication? What's the point of stranding people...? Having a sales force that doesn't know what the product really is.. ? Using Microsoft OSes for the employees too green to switch to linux.. ? TO my knowledge, even the CEO, the president of the St. Louis LInux SIG was using Windows primarily.
I feel extremley violated.
My God. I really should read SlashDot more often. I've missed what trolling is REALLY about. Thank you for showing me the light again. This is almost fun.
Didn't get no memo. One of my friends who still puts up with this hubris told me that my company made the front page of SlashDot. Thought it might be worth a check. Seems to be pretty standard SlashDot tripe, though.
Whee.. i'm a linuxgruven employee.. whee, i'm also a slashdot reader, so i can't read anything that's right in front of me. What's my UID.. ? Someone tell me, please.. ? Whee.
You're all children. Just so you know that. Wow, i'm feeling bitter today.
Bakabakka. Obviously, someone informed these guys of the malicious troutings on this lame little BBS and a bunch of their employees signed up for the one and only time in their life to reply and waste their time defending their company. I hope for their sake that their UIDs aren't needed again. Good day.:p
Heh, well, since the installer for linux is a shell script that calls netscape-installer-bin, and the shell script ends with something like
rm -rf/tmp/.tmp.i.x*
which removes the temp files, one could summise that if you removed or maybe even commented out that line, all would be safe. (Besides, I wouldn't know. I never got past the installer. Piece of trash. Maybe it's because of the server load, though. Ah well.)
Now.. using them again later on.. ? I'll leave that as an excercise to the reader.
> BTW, does anyone else have that problem where all of a sudden clicking on a link doesn't
> work anymore and the only way to get them to work is to reboot? This is also 4.7 on
> Win98.
I get that ALL the time in Windows or Linux.. me thinks it's related to Java or JavaScript (clap if your suprised).. anyway, you don't have to reboot in windows, as far as I can tell.. there's a window-less Netscape process that'll show up in the End Task dialogue after you've killed enough of Netscape's windows. Just kill that and wait for windows to realize that it doesn't want to die gracefully, end it, and it should be safe to restart. I've been running with java and javascript off, and that seems to help.. so many sites 'need' it now, though, it's getting irritating turning it off and on.:p Do what you will. I'll be suprised if 4.72 lasts long enough to let me post this.
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This is the kinda thing a pissed off overworked sysadmin might say. Power to the BOFH!!
It's 'disc' you dolt. Disk is short for diskette.
Brought to you by the society for the draconian implentation of English.
This is kind of a troll, but it's hard to imagine X in worse shape.. c.c The death of X wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. It seems to be somewhat over-relied on in the linux world.. not unlike some certain software house in the business world...
Hey! That's unfair.. I'm 22.
I dunno. I got 14,000 from them before they tanked. they owe me four weeks work and 2500 for my classes, but all in all I did allright. :p If it was a scam only Jim or Mike knew for certain. And either one wasn't very smart about executing it then.
I love how James sent it from Rich's account so Rich would take most of the flack instead. Very professional arse covering, if I do say so myself. Notice the usage of Rich's full name, but the lack of James Hibbits's last name, as well. Perhaps James Hibbits is hoping people somehow think that "James" is a nickname for Rich. Any further opinions?
Actually, I think we were more closley related to the Church of the Subgenius. Most of the boxes were running Slackware..
To be honest, after rereading my post I see my point wasn't very clear.My fault for posting at 4:00 in the morning or whenever. Anyway, the point i meant to make was that there are just.. ludicrious rumors flying around like this, and i really just want some solid answers.
We're really fucking pissed off. How do you think it would be to suddendly see a company you believe in go shooting down the toilet? TO be completley in the dark. Linuxgruven was what we did. I want to know what happened to the missing 250,000 dollars.. the three million so-and-so said he took home.. .I want to know who rang up a 7000$ phone bill.. why we never got any support accounts.. why the ball was dropped REPEATEDLEY. WHERE was the communication? What's the point of stranding people...? Having a sales force that doesn't know what the product really is.. ? Using Microsoft OSes for the employees too green to switch to linux.. ? TO my knowledge, even the CEO, the president of the St. Louis LInux SIG was using Windows primarily.
I feel extremley violated.
Believe me, you're not hurting anyone's feelings here.
REALLY? And i MISSED this? Dammit. I never get invited to the FUN events.
Holy Christ, Chilli.. firewalling from the middle ages.. :)
My God. I really should read SlashDot more often. I've missed what trolling is REALLY about. Thank you for showing me the light again. This is almost fun.
Oh, I'd guess there's only about 500 very well off individuals who've passed that one.
Didn't get no memo. One of my friends who still puts up with this hubris told me that my company made the front page of SlashDot. Thought it might be worth a check. Seems to be pretty standard SlashDot tripe, though.
Whee.. i'm a linuxgruven employee.. whee, i'm also a slashdot reader, so i can't read anything that's right in front of me. What's my UID.. ? Someone tell me, please.. ? Whee. You're all children. Just so you know that. Wow, i'm feeling bitter today.
Bakabakka. Obviously, someone informed these guys of the malicious troutings on this lame little BBS and a bunch of their employees signed up for the one and only time in their life to reply and waste their time defending their company. I hope for their sake that their UIDs aren't needed again. Good day. :p
Heh, well, since the installer for linux is a shell script that calls netscape-installer-bin, and the shell script ends with something like
/tmp/.tmp.i.x*
rm -rf
which removes the temp files, one could summise that if you removed or maybe even commented out that line, all would be safe. (Besides, I wouldn't know. I never got past the installer. Piece of trash. Maybe it's because of the server load, though. Ah well.)
Now.. using them again later on.. ? I'll leave that as an excercise to the reader.
> BTW, does anyone else have that problem where all of a sudden clicking on a link doesn't
:p Do what you will. I'll be suprised if 4.72 lasts long enough to let me post this.
> work anymore and the only way to get them to work is to reboot? This is also 4.7 on
> Win98.
I get that ALL the time in Windows or Linux.. me thinks it's related to Java or JavaScript (clap if your suprised).. anyway, you don't have to reboot in windows, as far as I can tell.. there's a window-less Netscape process that'll show up in the End Task dialogue after you've killed enough of Netscape's windows. Just kill that and wait for windows to realize that it doesn't want to die gracefully, end it, and it should be safe to restart. I've been running with java and javascript off, and that seems to help.. so many sites 'need' it now, though, it's getting irritating turning it off and on.