This is a game made for Pointy Haired Bosses to show off in meetings so they can feel like they're doing something. It's useless, waste of skin people trying to find an excuse for their existence. Yahoo Serous, Pauly Shore and Carrot Top individually contributed more to the cosmos that the lame putzes who made this "game."
Everyone knows the average janitor is far more important to the world at large that the PHB's responsible for this "game." Janitors accomplish something. The world is better than it would be without them.
I wonder how it feels to be a highly paid MBA carrying white man and know deep down inside that the guy who waxes the floor contributes more to the world in a week than said PHB will contribute in his life.
Mmmm. Star Wars Products that don't line the pockets of George Lucas. Mmmmm
And now his sales will tipple. Anyone else remember what happened after thinkgeek.com was slashdotted? I wonder when we'll have the parksabers.com box as an option. What will the icon be when he comes out with a new model???
When I arrived, most data files were kept on floppy disk. No backups, no nothing.
The most important thing is to get the owner / boss on your side. Make sire he / she understands why you;re doing what you're doing and will stone face anyone who complains. If you don't have authority to make the necessry changes and enact policy, then you should start looking for a new job NOW because some loudmouth luddite will get you fired for daring to change her / his work habbits in the name of data inergrity. I once had to host a two hour meeting defending the use of usernames and passwords on the network. If it hadn't happened less than 24 hours after a mjor data loss due to people having access they didn't need, I'd have either been out of a job or forced to set up a Novell server with NO usernames or passwords.
The most important thing is to make it clear that any data on the C: Drive is disposable. Network for work, C: for personal. I sent out a memo that used the phrase, "All data stored on your hard drive (C:) Drive is considered disposable. MIS will not attempt to recover lost data on hard drives and you will be held responsible for any lost data. Information on the H:, M: and U: Drives are backed up nightly and all files less than a month old can be recovered."
My backup really went back two months, but you have to pad this ort of thing or users freak.
I didn't have to cause a disaster. A consultatn had saddled us with a bunch of Compaq Presario systems, and it only took a couple months for everyone to have expereinced or hear about a major loss of data due to failing to keep files on the server.
This is where the boss' support is vital. When people complained, the first question the boss asked was "Was the file on your computer or the server." When the file was on their hard drive, THEY got reamed for the lost data.
There were a couple of times where the data recovery took longer than the user wanted, and I had to have the "Tape drives are slow, using faster media will cost $xxx. Sign this purchase order and recovering files people accidentally deleted will be much faster" conversation.
Good Luck, and keep in mind, this is largely a social issue. If you don't have the suits on your side, it's an uphill battle that will end in being blamed for causing problems, or bamed for lost data. Don't get caught in asitution where you have no authority, but have all the responsibility for bame. Without support from the higher ups, you are the data loss scapegoat.
For some reason taste in music escapes most of the population out here.
Still, WAAF is OK on the weekends. I just wish they'd shut the DJs up and play some $#@ Music for a change. MTV (The Shiny Things Network*) has more music these days than the Boston stations.
* "After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network"
I still remember the damn fool local DJs reading the "Post office wants to levy a 5 cent tax on each e-mail" story as real. Most of my coworkers were in a panic and complaining bitterly. I printed up disclaimers debunking the story from the US Post Office's web site, among other locations.
Sadly, my coworkers insisted that the post office must be lying, because "They wouldn't put it on the radio if it weren't true!" (Yes, that is a real quote)
It was read on WAAF (bottom of the dung pile "rock" station) by "Mistress Carrie" for crying out loud!
And then there was the time Hillary Clinton was asked about her stance on the bill during an interview...
Keep in mind, Archos is the same company that did the following:
Somoene writes Linux drivers. They post a link on their web site so you can download them.
Someone puts up a web site detailing how to install a larger hard drive. The site states that such activity will void the warranty. Archos offers 10 and later 20 gig devices so you can have the larger capacity without voiding the warranty.
I'd be shocked if Archos cared if people were hacking their firmware. All it does is create a developer community and expanding uses for the hardware, which they are still selling.
If you want to mod an Archos, you still need to get a hold of one, which means buying it.
This is a win-win for Archos, unless some jackasses start calling Archos demanding tech support for the Open Source Firmware. Then it becomes a nuisance.
YES! This is the one and only way I would like to see Jar-Jar added to "A New Home."
Burn the &(*$ to a crisp. YES! DIE JAR-JAR DIE!
www.audible.com has an interview with Lucas (Robin Williams conducts the interview) in the "free" section where he talks about why Jar-Jar is so hated. He snorts and says "Fans don't like comic side kicks. They hated C3PO and they hated Yoda." He makes it pretty clear that he sees the Jar-Jar haters as being low life scum unworthy of licking the bantha dung off his shoe.
One big change between SQL 7 and 2000 is that it's harder to leave the sa password blank. It's still possible, but at least you've been told. Not quite a "HEY STUPID" message, but it's pretty close.
I'm normally pretty MS Hostile, but even I don't really blame MS for this one. This is a PEBKAC. Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
Today was the first time in weeks I hadn't left my work computer on overnight downloading the latest and greatest 80's MP3s and Star Trek Enterprise AVIs. Tonight it is powered down. Such timing!
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I'm downloading it now, and as soon as it finishes I'm making it available via Kazaa (The lite version, which is something else I have available for download)
Windows will be available first, mainly because my work machine runs Windows, and I'll be using it first.
My default file associations at work and home are to open Word and Excel docs in OpenOffice. I don't even use MS Office unless I need to run some VBA macros embedded in the file.
This means I can open e-mailed Office files with impunity! Mwhahahaha (And yes, I do know how to tell the difference between real Word files and files with a myfile.doc.exe style filename)
I've never had any problems with mine, and you are the second person I've ever heard of having problems with a Archos Jukebox. It must be a fluke. (I hope it's a fluke, as I'm getting the 20 GB Recorder as soon as I can find one)
Attn: Business and Legal Affairs Overture Services, Inc. 74 North Pasadena Avenue, 3rd Floor Pasadena, CA 91103 Fax (626) 685-5601
Dear overture.com,
So, you can't do anything innovative or original on your own and don't have enough brainpower in your corporate hierarchy to come up with a strategy that turns a profit.
So you sue.
You pick a company that is making money and sue them on a trumped up, drug addled view of a pathetic patent that would never have been granted if the patent office employed people with an IQ higher than 67.
Or perhaps you're suing them because they won't license your technology and pervert their pure, accurate searches with the crap you spew out.
With this lawsuit, you have guaranteed that I will never use your search engine. Go ahead and change your name all you want, I still won't use you, and the sites that license your "technology" will be similarly be avoided.
I will also do everything within my power to prevent others from doing business with you, including but not limited to writing the firms that appear in your search results and making it clear to them that I will not do business with them either.
Hopefully, with enough action on the part of the consumer, you will recognize the folly of pursuing lawsuits as a business model.
Diakatana team to develop Windows 2004 (Codename Mordor)
How I deal with telemarketing
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I do one of three things when one of them calls. Usually I just demand to be put on their "Do not call" list, request a copy of their call policy (Required by US law to send it to me) and hang up.
If I'm feeling playful, I pretend to be a 80 year old man who is hard of hearing and afraid of technology, a character I perfected during a high school play years ago. (Played Selsdon in "Noises Off")
If I'm in a REALLY good mood (Got laid within the last 24 hours) I go into my "Fundamentalist Souther Baptist Minister" routine and try to convert the telemarketer.
"Have you found Jesus my child?"
The sad thing is, they stay on the line during this routine. I have had plenty of people hang up with the first tow methods, but every one of them had hung on during the third until I hung up. The current record is 45 minutes.
My one and only printed Slashdot story was an item at Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback that tells about a site that already has a list of the 800 numbers used by SPAMMERS.
"This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform"
Wouldn't that require it be a stable platform to begin with? It's like me saying, "Eating this bag of jelly beans will destroy my ability to run the Boston Marathon in 10 minutes, 32 seconds."
Slashdot Mirror
Man, things have just gone downhill. At least in the days of George Bush Sr. we knew that we were safe from broccoli
Uhm... NO categories for most of the web sites I visit. Nothing about technology sites, hardware reviews, computer programming...
I half expected to see Tom's Hardware listed as a porn site.
This is a game made for Pointy Haired Bosses to show off in meetings so they can feel like they're doing something. It's useless, waste of skin people trying to find an excuse for their existence. Yahoo Serous, Pauly Shore and Carrot Top individually contributed more to the cosmos that the lame putzes who made this "game."
Everyone knows the average janitor is far more important to the world at large that the PHB's responsible for this "game." Janitors accomplish something. The world is better than it would be without them.
I wonder how it feels to be a highly paid MBA carrying white man and know deep down inside that the guy who waxes the floor contributes more to the world in a week than said PHB will contribute in his life.
Mmmm. Star Wars Products that don't line the pockets of George Lucas. Mmmmm
And now his sales will tipple. Anyone else remember what happened after thinkgeek.com was slashdotted? I wonder when we'll have the parksabers.com box as an option. What will the icon be when he comes out with a new model???
When I arrived, most data files were kept on floppy disk. No backups, no nothing.
The most important thing is to get the owner / boss on your side. Make sire he / she understands why you;re doing what you're doing and will stone face anyone who complains. If you don't have authority to make the necessry changes and enact policy, then you should start looking for a new job NOW because some loudmouth luddite will get you fired for daring to change her / his work habbits in the name of data inergrity. I once had to host a two hour meeting defending the use of usernames and passwords on the network. If it hadn't happened less than 24 hours after a mjor data loss due to people having access they didn't need, I'd have either been out of a job or forced to set up a Novell server with NO usernames or passwords.
The most important thing is to make it clear that any data on the C: Drive is disposable. Network for work, C: for personal. I sent out a memo that used the phrase, "All data stored on your hard drive (C:) Drive is considered disposable. MIS will not attempt to recover lost data on hard drives and you will be held responsible for any lost data. Information on the H:, M: and U: Drives are backed up nightly and all files less than a month old can be recovered."
My backup really went back two months, but you have to pad this ort of thing or users freak.
I didn't have to cause a disaster. A consultatn had saddled us with a bunch of Compaq Presario systems, and it only took a couple months for everyone to have expereinced or hear about a major loss of data due to failing to keep files on the server.
This is where the boss' support is vital. When people complained, the first question the boss asked was "Was the file on your computer or the server." When the file was on their hard drive, THEY got reamed for the lost data.
There were a couple of times where the data recovery took longer than the user wanted, and I had to have the "Tape drives are slow, using faster media will cost $xxx. Sign this purchase order and recovering files people accidentally deleted will be much faster" conversation.
Good Luck, and keep in mind, this is largely a social issue. If you don't have the suits on your side, it's an uphill battle that will end in being blamed for causing problems, or bamed for lost data. Don't get caught in asitution where you have no authority, but have all the responsibility for bame. Without support from the higher ups, you are the data loss scapegoat.
You got me there.
For some reason taste in music escapes most of the population out here.
Still, WAAF is OK on the weekends. I just wish they'd shut the DJs up and play some $#@ Music for a change. MTV (The Shiny Things Network*) has more music these days than the Boston stations.
* "After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network"
I still remember the damn fool local DJs reading the "Post office wants to levy a 5 cent tax on each e-mail" story as real. Most of my coworkers were in a panic and complaining bitterly. I printed up disclaimers debunking the story from the US Post Office's web site, among other locations.
Sadly, my coworkers insisted that the post office must be lying, because "They wouldn't put it on the radio if it weren't true!" (Yes, that is a real quote)
It was read on WAAF (bottom of the dung pile "rock" station) by "Mistress Carrie" for crying out loud!
And then there was the time Hillary Clinton was asked about her stance on the bill during an interview...
Keep in mind, Archos is the same company that did the following:
Somoene writes Linux drivers. They post a link on their web site so you can download them.
Someone puts up a web site detailing how to install a larger hard drive. The site states that such activity will void the warranty. Archos offers 10 and later 20 gig devices so you can have the larger capacity without voiding the warranty.
I'd be shocked if Archos cared if people were hacking their firmware. All it does is create a developer community and expanding uses for the hardware, which they are still selling.
If you want to mod an Archos, you still need to get a hold of one, which means buying it.
This is a win-win for Archos, unless some jackasses start calling Archos demanding tech support for the Open Source Firmware. Then it becomes a nuisance.
YES! This is the one and only way I would like to see Jar-Jar added to "A New Home."
Burn the &(*$ to a crisp. YES! DIE JAR-JAR DIE!
www.audible.com has an interview with Lucas (Robin Williams conducts the interview) in the "free" section where he talks about why Jar-Jar is so hated. He snorts and says "Fans don't like comic side kicks. They hated C3PO and they hated Yoda." He makes it pretty clear that he sees the Jar-Jar haters as being low life scum unworthy of licking the bantha dung off his shoe.
One big change between SQL 7 and 2000 is that it's harder to leave the sa password blank. It's still possible, but at least you've been told. Not quite a "HEY STUPID" message, but it's pretty close.
I'm normally pretty MS Hostile, but even I don't really blame MS for this one. This is a PEBKAC. Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
Today was the first time in weeks I hadn't left my work computer on overnight downloading the latest and greatest 80's MP3s and Star Trek Enterprise AVIs. Tonight it is powered down. Such timing!
E. D. G. E., Inc.
P. O. Box 712911
San Diego, California 92171
US
Domain Name: PANIP.COM
Administrative Contact:
Hosting Customer info@edgeinc.org
E. D. G. E., Inc. Hosting
P. O. Box 712911
San Diego, California 92171-2911
US
Phone: 800.695.1651
Fax: 619.839.3860
Technical Contact:
Hosting Customer info@edgeinc.org
E. D. G. E., Inc. Hosting
P. O. Box 712911
San Diego, California 92171-2911
US
Phone: 800.695.1651
Fax: 619.839.3860
Record updated on 2002-02-06 19:54:29.
Record created on 2000-03-06.
Record expires on 2004-03-06.
Database last updated on 2002-05-14 13:49:20 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.EUR.MKSECURE.COM 213.130.162.14
NS.NYC.MKSECURE.COM 216.82.175.10
NS.SAT.MKSECURE.COM 209.61.158.220
Register your domain name at http://www.bulkregister.com
I'm downloading it now, and as soon as it finishes I'm making it available via Kazaa (The lite version, which is something else I have available for download)
Windows will be available first, mainly because my work machine runs Windows, and I'll be using it first.
My default file associations at work and home are to open Word and Excel docs in OpenOffice. I don't even use MS Office unless I need to run some VBA macros embedded in the file.
This means I can open e-mailed Office files with impunity! Mwhahahaha (And yes, I do know how to tell the difference between real Word files and files with a myfile.doc.exe style filename)
And we can't forget a copy of the Cygwin utilities. (Many core GNU utilities ported to Win32)
:)
grep, awk, wget and others all easy to install.
fortune will be VERY popular!
If this CD has an easy to install copy of LyX for Win32 I'll be more than happy to buy a copy!
Mmmmm. What you See is What you Mean editing. Mmmmmm. Yummy. Easy export of PDF, HTML or any other format from one document...
More on LyX, the BEST text processor in the world or just download it.
Linux users probably have it already.
matthewmiller.net
Send it back.
I've never had any problems with mine, and you are the second person I've ever heard of having problems with a Archos Jukebox. It must be a fluke. (I hope it's a fluke, as I'm getting the 20 GB Recorder as soon as I can find one)
Nope. Not unless you want to be taken into custody for using a terrorist training program.
Attn: Business and Legal Affairs
Overture Services, Inc.
74 North Pasadena Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pasadena, CA 91103
Fax (626) 685-5601
Dear overture.com,
So, you can't do anything innovative or original on your own and don't have enough brainpower in your corporate hierarchy to come up with a strategy that turns a profit.
So you sue.
You pick a company that is making money and sue them on a trumped up, drug addled view of a pathetic patent that would never have been granted if the patent office employed people with an IQ higher than 67.
Or perhaps you're suing them because they won't license your technology and pervert their pure, accurate searches with the crap you spew out.
With this lawsuit, you have guaranteed that I will never use your search engine. Go ahead and change your name all you want, I still won't use you, and the sites that license your "technology" will be similarly be avoided.
I will also do everything within my power to prevent others from doing business with you, including but not limited to writing the firms that appear in your search results and making it clear to them that I will not do business with them either.
Hopefully, with enough action on the part of the consumer, you will recognize the folly of pursuing lawsuits as a business model.
Lever 3 Hacker gains "Mad Hardware Skillz" and can scrounge and build a PC for close to nothing as a standard action.
Not new, old technology. They even have a guy who uses a handheld one on South Park!
Diakatana team to develop Windows 2004 (Codename Mordor)
I do one of three things when one of them calls. Usually I just demand to be put on their "Do not call" list, request a copy of their call policy (Required by US law to send it to me) and hang up.
If I'm feeling playful, I pretend to be a 80 year old man who is hard of hearing and afraid of technology, a character I perfected during a high school play years ago. (Played Selsdon in "Noises Off")
If I'm in a REALLY good mood (Got laid within the last 24 hours) I go into my "Fundamentalist Souther Baptist Minister" routine and try to convert the telemarketer.
"Have you found Jesus my child?"
The sad thing is, they stay on the line during this routine. I have had plenty of people hang up with the first tow methods, but every one of them had hung on during the third until I hung up. The current record is 45 minutes.
:)
My one and only printed Slashdot story was an item at Slashback: 640K, Pioneer, Payback that tells about a site that already has a list of the 800 numbers used by SPAMMERS.
"This would destroy Windows desktop operating systems as a stable and consistent development platform"
Wouldn't that require it be a stable platform to begin with? It's like me saying, "Eating this bag of jelly beans will destroy my ability to run the Boston Marathon in 10 minutes, 32 seconds."
If there is a direct relationship between sleeping less and living longer, then I WILL NEVER DIE!!!
I AM IMORTAL, BOW BEFORE ME YOU SLEEP ADDICTED FOOLS!
MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
And now I will lock my enemy in a death trap and head off to have a leisurely lunch chortling, "No one can stop me, I can not fail!"