Though I have to say the learning curve with a straight razor is steep and fraught with pitfalls. It's also not something to attempt when you are pressed for time.
The best cartridge blade I've found is the Schick FX Diamond. It blows Gillette out of the water, and with only two blades. The trick is the blades themselves actually bend and don't simply float up and down like Gilette's do. They also last a lot longer than Gillette's...I've had a Schick cartridge that has lasted for better than two months, while a similar Gillette one will barely make it through two weeks.
No shit Sherlock! Did you figure that out all by yourself?!? Of course I can read their e-mail! I'm a sysadmin and I set up the frigging mail system in the first place! Duh! What they fail to grasp is I don't have time to be going through their shit! Conversely PHBs don't have time to learn how to admin mail systems, which is what they'd have to do in order to keep me out.
Here's a novel concept: Why don't you simply try hiring people who are trustworthy?
A poll a year ago found 50% support and 48% opposition. Okay, so it's a majority, but you must admit it's a slim one. Earlier in the year, a poll found 45% support, which isn't a majority.
<sarcasm>Yes, and george bush actually won both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections too!</sarcasm>
"If the power of corporations continues to grow unchecked, we could come upon a time when some corporations monitor their employees 24 hours a day, in there homes, at play, wherever, and to do anything outside of the company rules would mean termination. It would be in the company's best interest to do so."
...until we decide enough is enough and borrow Madame Guillotine from the French.
"We change out motherboards in our servers all the time..."
Please tell me where you're buying your server hardware from so I can avoid them like the plague! Where I come from, changing a motherboard in a server is a dire emergency, not something that one does on a whim.
I have to admit I really do like the XP post-installation music. Not enough that I'd add it to my normal playlists, but I do let it play through to the end (far longer than necessary) when I have occasion to do an install.
You need to be bent over a gun and caned! Apparently you haven't had to do all that many post install setups! Especially not on laptops whose volume controls don't enable until the post install is finished and you get to suffer through it at whatever arbitrary volume it decides to play at!
Prostate cancer kills as many men as breast cancer kills women, but do we men get a month or a ribbon or a colour changing website campaign? Breast cancer "research" also gets about 5 times the funding too...
I'm sorry, but until there is some equality there, my stuff is staying the same colour!
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Can we mod that last statement in the submitter's comments Troll?
This in a nation that puts metal detectors at the entrances and now wants to be able to strip-search students? "The land of the free"...what a pathetic joke you've become! Fucking prison camp is more like it.
HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE AMERICAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $11,700,000.00 (ELEVEN MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM A JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE SPAM BLOCKING SERVICE SPAMHAUS, AS DETERMINED BY AN ILLONOIS COURT. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND.
WE ARE NOW READY TO TRANSFER THE FUND OVERSEAS AND THAT IS WHERE YOU COME IN. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INFORM YOU THAT AS CIVIL SERVANTS, WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO OPERATE A FOREIGN ACCOUNT; THAT IS WHY WE REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE. THE TOTAL SUM WILL BE SHARED AS FOLLOWS: 70% FOR US, 25% FOR YOU AND 5% FOR LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES INCIDENT TO THE TRANSFER.
THE TRANSFER IS RISK FREE ON BOTH SIDES. I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). IF YOU FIND THIS PROPOSAL ACCEPTABLE, WE SHALL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:
(A) YOUR BANKER'S NAME, TELEPHONE, ACCOUNT AND FAX NUMBERS.
(B) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS -- FOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND EASY COMMUNICATION.
(C) YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER STAMPED AND SIGNED.
ALTERNATIVELY WE WILL FURNISH YOU WITH THE TEXT OF WHAT TO TYPE INTO YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER, ALONG WITH A BREAKDOWN EXPLAINING, COMPREHENSIVELY WHAT WE REQUIRE OF YOU. THE BUSINESS WILL TAKE US THIRTY (30) WORKING DAYS TO ACCOMPLISH.
"Explosion imminent?" "Oh my God! The plant's going to explode!" "Wait, I know: (typing) vent gas." "Pressure too high?" "Tank must be shut down manually?" "Oh, stupid bird! I never should have put you in charge!" "Ohhh, who am I kidding? It's all my fault!" 'I've got to call the plant and warn them!" (phone beeping - automated message) The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now. "Aaah!"
Well then I'd say the cumulative total is about 5 hours, and I'm being generous. In reality it's less than that. It's not hard to acheive if you set them up correctly.
Let's say your windows server is down for 30 hours in a particular year.
Then I'd say it's time to fire your admin! I doubt I've had more than 3 hours cumulative of unplanned outages on any of my Windows servers (2000 and 2003) in the last year! I took two down to swap their tower chassis' for rack mounts, and I swapped memory in one, but those are planned outages and the chassis swap wasn't really a necessary one.
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Straight razor
Shaving soap
bristle brush
'nuff said.
Though I have to say the learning curve with a straight razor is steep and fraught with pitfalls. It's also not something to attempt when you are pressed for time.
The best cartridge blade I've found is the Schick FX Diamond. It blows Gillette out of the water, and with only two blades. The trick is the blades themselves actually bend and don't simply float up and down like Gilette's do. They also last a lot longer than Gillette's...I've had a Schick cartridge that has lasted for better than two months, while a similar Gillette one will barely make it through two weeks.
No shit Sherlock! Did you figure that out all by yourself?!? Of course I can read their e-mail! I'm a sysadmin and I set up the frigging mail system in the first place! Duh!
What they fail to grasp is I don't have time to be going through their shit!
Conversely PHBs don't have time to learn how to admin mail systems, which is what they'd have to do in order to keep me out.
Here's a novel concept: Why don't you simply try hiring people who are trustworthy?
That isn't very reassuring.
Where's Wun Hung Lo?
<sarcasm>Yes, and george bush actually won both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections too!</sarcasm>
I use lynx to surf pr0n!
Shit, I remember when you used to be able to leave your relays open on your mail servers, and nobody would mess with them.
Computer manfuacturers are bent over a barrel to include an OEM Windows install on every machine they sell.
Apple isn't.
"We change out motherboards in our servers all the time..."
Please tell me where you're buying your server hardware from so I can avoid them like the plague!
Where I come from, changing a motherboard in a server is a dire emergency, not something that one does on a whim.
I've only done four laptops at once...that was enough to get me looking for a fire axe.
I have to admit I really do like the XP post-installation music. Not enough that I'd add it to my normal playlists, but I do let it play through to the end (far longer than necessary) when I have occasion to do an install.
You need to be bent over a gun and caned! Apparently you haven't had to do all that many post install setups! Especially not on laptops whose volume controls don't enable until the post install is finished and you get to suffer through it at whatever arbitrary volume it decides to play at!
Prostate cancer kills as many men as breast cancer kills women, but do we men get a month or a ribbon or a colour changing website campaign? Breast cancer "research" also gets about 5 times the funding too...
I'm sorry, but until there is some equality there, my stuff is staying the same colour!
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Can we mod that last statement in the submitter's comments Troll?
This in a nation that puts metal detectors at the entrances and now wants to be able to strip-search students?
"The land of the free"...what a pathetic joke you've become! Fucking prison camp is more like it.
So are we going to do a bulk mail freight train on David Linhardt and e360 Insight?
C'mon! Lets have some addresses...
DEAR SIR,
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE AMERICAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $11,700,000.00 (ELEVEN MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM A JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE SPAM BLOCKING SERVICE SPAMHAUS, AS DETERMINED BY AN ILLONOIS COURT. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND.
WE ARE NOW READY TO TRANSFER THE FUND OVERSEAS AND THAT IS WHERE YOU COME IN. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INFORM YOU THAT AS CIVIL SERVANTS, WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO OPERATE A FOREIGN ACCOUNT; THAT IS WHY WE REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE. THE TOTAL SUM WILL BE SHARED AS FOLLOWS: 70% FOR US, 25% FOR YOU AND 5% FOR LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES INCIDENT TO THE TRANSFER.
THE TRANSFER IS RISK FREE ON BOTH SIDES. I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). IF YOU FIND THIS PROPOSAL ACCEPTABLE, WE SHALL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:
(A) YOUR BANKER'S NAME, TELEPHONE, ACCOUNT AND FAX NUMBERS.
(B) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS -- FOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND EASY COMMUNICATION.
(C) YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER STAMPED AND SIGNED.
ALTERNATIVELY WE WILL FURNISH YOU WITH THE TEXT OF WHAT TO TYPE INTO YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER, ALONG WITH A BREAKDOWN EXPLAINING, COMPREHENSIVELY WHAT WE REQUIRE OF YOU. THE BUSINESS WILL TAKE US THIRTY (30) WORKING DAYS TO ACCOMPLISH.
PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY.
BEST REGARDS
"Explosion imminent?"
"Oh my God! The plant's going to explode!"
"Wait, I know: (typing) vent gas."
"Pressure too high?"
"Tank must be shut down manually?"
"Oh, stupid bird! I never should have put you in charge!"
"Ohhh, who am I kidding? It's all my fault!"
'I've got to call the plant and warn them!"
(phone beeping - automated message)
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now.
"Aaah!"
Remember?
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/21/00552
Cryptome had a related article...
http://cryptome.org/western-union.htm
In other words, Digg fuels and exacerbates your ADHD...
There's got to be a way to calculate the maximum amount traveled per gallon of gasoline cumbusted
Ummmm...this wouldn't have anything to do with your "handle" being "PornMaster", would it?
Well then I'd say the cumulative total is about 5 hours, and I'm being generous. In reality it's less than that.
It's not hard to acheive if you set them up correctly.
Let's say your windows server is down for 30 hours in a particular year.
Then I'd say it's time to fire your admin!
I doubt I've had more than 3 hours cumulative of unplanned outages on any of my Windows servers (2000 and 2003) in the last year! I took two down to swap their tower chassis' for rack mounts, and I swapped memory in one, but those are planned outages and the chassis swap wasn't really a necessary one.
No...what we need are guns...lots of guns.