This might be news to you, but you *can* overcome your lack of social skills.
Working in tech support for 2 years certainly helped me. It was either treat the customers nicely and with heaps of respect that you don't think they deserve, or live on welfare. I chose the former.
I still do tech support, but I also get to run the network for a small ISP, which to me is one of the coolest things I could imagine doing for money. And I don't have a college degree either. I simply worked to get where I am. More relevent to the question is that I've managed to build myself a social network so thick that my job is starting to get in the way of my social life(I work afternoon shifts, unlike most of my friends) rather than becoming my life. I'm even getting laid quite a lot, which seems to be a foreign concept to so many slashdotters like yourself who are bitter about it and couldn't believe that geeks could be interesting to the opposite sex.
Add to this that I happen to personally know a fair number of geeks who have achieved the same feat, and maybe you might even believe that there's a few of us that might be of help to our "Ask Slashdot" poster.
Slashdotters do this because it gives them a good excuse for their social retardation, instead of the real reason - a lot of us didn't have any friends for a while.
It also gives them an excuse to continue to be assholes to people. "Geeks aren't like this," or "you can expect your sysadmin/network admin/other technical type employee to not be so good with people," are the usual excuses. This is bullshit. When you work in a company, you should bloody well learn how to be nice to customers you think are clueless dolts, because if you don't, you'll be replaced by someone like me who can at the first available opportunity. There's no excuse for this kind of attitude.
Wow! 25 gigs for only $40 a month? That's a great deal! Considering that most isps around here most certainly do have traffic limitations. And those of us slashdotters who work for companies that have large internet connections know full well what bandwidth is really worth. For instance on an OC3 (155Mbps) you're getting a wholesale rate of only $3 per gigabyte, plus the connection fee of $300 a month and a setup fee of around $3000 or more. Included bandwidth? None.
So $40 per month for 25 gigs? And extra gigs at only $10 each? You're practically ripping them off.
Not as great an idea as it looks.
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So, what happens when you get a virus?
Especially a spam virus.
Or just as easily, you can set up your *own* mail server, and not charge for the service.
Or just as easily, you can set up your own mail server on someone else's computer without their knowledge. See also: spam virii.
Gay marriage isn't the only thing destroying the sanctity of marriage! So are civil unions, like the one me and my wife had, since both of us are Atheists.
Except that civil unions have been legal for more than a hundred years.
But let's not get into semantics! They're pure evil I tell you! Evil!
My answers: 1. Invisible. 2. What GUI? 3. The end users shouldn't even know. 4. I hate it when that happens. 5. See 1.
My end users shouldn't notice at all. Everything needs to be invisible, not just easy to use. Tasks that used to require a good deal of work should disappear into a black hole that we call The Server. Accounting, filing, billing, spam filtering, if it's boring and dull, a computer should probably be doing it instead.
Heh. By that same token, you could reason that Cabot Cove, Maine is an exceptionally nasty place to live considering that they have a murder every week, even though it's a pleasant little east-coast town.
Where the hell did they get their control group? Rural Africa? Anywhere remote enough and poor enough to not be surrounded by electrical devices in this day and age would have standards of living so low that life expectancy wouldn't be that high for anyone anyway.
It seems to me that they're still fully willing to hawk empty dreams for cash with no benefit to the custo^H^H^H^H^Hstudent. I see ads for this everywhere. Except they also (and always have) advertise certificates in Business and Nursing.
It's worth noting that in Neuromancer, he may not have had a very good grip on technology, but he had a very, very deep understanding of the kind of obsessive behaviour that drives hackers, programmers, and gamers. This turned out to be infinitely more important than the technology involved, or silly little details like how much RAM was in your calculator. He saw computers and programming to be akin to a drug addiction, and Case's addiction to speed and "anything up" was very much in line with the kind of chemical addictions that programmers are drawn to in real life.
1. Take a $0.69 notebook. 2. Glue on a wind-up alarm clock. (and remember to set it again for the next alarm) 3. Glue on a calendar. 4. Glue on a phone book. 5. Glue on a deck of cards. Make sure you glue on the box they come in, or they'll be impossible to use. 6. Glue on the "Lord of the Rings", "Code Complete" and "Core Mysql." Be careful not to stick the pages together. 7. Glue on a chess set. Preferrably magnetic for use while travelling. 8. Glue on a calculator. 9. Alphabetize the whole thing and affix color-coded tabs where needed for quick and easy access. Don't ever mess up the organization by putting something in the wrong place. 10. Photocopy the thing periodically for backups.
Presto! You have your very own Palm Pilot that you built yourself! Total cost: $150 (not including cost of books). Time taken: 80 hours (mostly due to excruciating coallation and alphabetization) plus time to dry. Total weight: 18 pounds.
Amen... for extra bonus points, dress her up in nothing but a bow, and start off with some hot girl-on-girl action.
No no. You don't start that kind of thing until after he's done. Then the girls aren't bored and feeling left out, and maybe even gets him up again.
Threesomes are actually the hardest form of group sex, since there's an odd number of participants. Unless someone's a voyeur, someone's likely to feel left out.
I can understand that this fanboy is upset about how the movie is different from the book, but for the love of god, grow up!
Anyone who critiques a movie based on a book this way clearly has such limited experience with reading that it's plainly obvious they're either not yet out of high school, or the genre* they read is so obscure that noone cares enough to bother writing movies in it.
So what if Tom Bombadill isn't in the movie? So what if some of the lines aren't quite the same? This movie actually took lines directly from the book. He should be glad that it's this accurate! Most of the time when you have a movie adaptation, there should be a line in the credits that says "loosely based on the book". Very loosely. As in, "There's a character we took from the book and a couple plot elements."
LotR is a movie made by fans, for fans. The credits even give kudos to every member of the fan club for god's sake.
I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP. Here's our rough figures:
New mail server, bought last February: $2500 FreeBSD 4.8: $0. Qmail: $0. Vpopmail: $0. qmail-scanner: $0. Spamassassin: $0. F-prot antivirus for unix file servers: $400/year/server. My time*: $3000. Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching sendmail admins patching: priceless. Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching server load averages go from 20 to 0.02: priceless. Adding on spamassassin server wide and watching server load averages go from 0.02 to 3.0: well, it's still better than sendmail was. Watching the server eat 30,000 viruses a day during the MyDoom attack after months of hard work: totally righteous.
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's my Boss' Mastercard. Accepted in places where Open Source Software impresses geeks like me.
* I'd never before used any of the software listed above. It took a while to learn it all in between tech support calls.
The F-prot antivirus definitions have it, as of the 19th. They have a nice *nix scanner that can be plugged into software like qmailscanner, which can scan all incoming and outgoing messages. They also have sane per-server pricing for ISPs.
I'm looking forward to seeing how much of an impact this will make on our mail server. Currently viruses make up less than 5% of our filtered mail. The rest is spam.
Of course, that will go the way of the dodo soon enough, after enough people throw bricks with love letters attached through the windows of those burning your airtime for fun and profit.
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This might be news to you, but you *can* overcome your lack of social skills.
Working in tech support for 2 years certainly helped me. It was either treat the customers nicely and with heaps of respect that you don't think they deserve, or live on welfare. I chose the former.
I still do tech support, but I also get to run the network for a small ISP, which to me is one of the coolest things I could imagine doing for money. And I don't have a college degree either. I simply worked to get where I am. More relevent to the question is that I've managed to build myself a social network so thick that my job is starting to get in the way of my social life(I work afternoon shifts, unlike most of my friends) rather than becoming my life. I'm even getting laid quite a lot, which seems to be a foreign concept to so many slashdotters like yourself who are bitter about it and couldn't believe that geeks could be interesting to the opposite sex.
Add to this that I happen to personally know a fair number of geeks who have achieved the same feat, and maybe you might even believe that there's a few of us that might be of help to our "Ask Slashdot" poster.
Slashdotters do this because it gives them a good excuse for their social retardation, instead of the real reason - a lot of us didn't have any friends for a while.
It also gives them an excuse to continue to be assholes to people. "Geeks aren't like this," or "you can expect your sysadmin/network admin/other technical type employee to not be so good with people," are the usual excuses. This is bullshit. When you work in a company, you should bloody well learn how to be nice to customers you think are clueless dolts, because if you don't, you'll be replaced by someone like me who can at the first available opportunity. There's no excuse for this kind of attitude.
Wow! 25 gigs for only $40 a month? That's a great deal! Considering that most isps around here most certainly do have traffic limitations. And those of us slashdotters who work for companies that have large internet connections know full well what bandwidth is really worth. For instance on an OC3 (155Mbps) you're getting a wholesale rate of only $3 per gigabyte, plus the connection fee of $300 a month and a setup fee of around $3000 or more. Included bandwidth? None.
So $40 per month for 25 gigs? And extra gigs at only $10 each? You're practically ripping them off.
So, what happens when you get a virus?
Especially a spam virus.
Or just as easily, you can set up your *own* mail server, and not charge for the service.
Or just as easily, you can set up your own mail server on someone else's computer without their knowledge. See also: spam virii.
Gay marriage isn't the only thing destroying the sanctity of marriage! So are civil unions, like the one me and my wife had, since both of us are Atheists.
Except that civil unions have been legal for more than a hundred years.
But let's not get into semantics! They're pure evil I tell you! Evil!
My answers:
1. Invisible.
2. What GUI?
3. The end users shouldn't even know.
4. I hate it when that happens.
5. See 1.
My end users shouldn't notice at all. Everything needs to be invisible, not just easy to use. Tasks that used to require a good deal of work should disappear into a black hole that we call The Server. Accounting, filing, billing, spam filtering, if it's boring and dull, a computer should probably be doing it instead.
***AgntSmith sets mode +m Neo.
Heh. By that same token, you could reason that Cabot Cove, Maine is an exceptionally nasty place to live considering that they have a murder every week, even though it's a pleasant little east-coast town.
Not just electric razors, but other electrical equipment like computers, lights, wireless mice, and running water, to name a few.
Where the hell did they get their control group? Rural Africa? Anywhere remote enough and poor enough to not be surrounded by electrical devices in this day and age would have standards of living so low that life expectancy wouldn't be that high for anyone anyway.
Well worth the risk if you ask me.
It seems to me that they're still fully willing to hawk empty dreams for cash with no benefit to the custo^H^H^H^H^Hstudent. I see ads for this everywhere. Except they also (and always have) advertise certificates in Business and Nursing.
It's worth noting that in Neuromancer, he may not have had a very good grip on technology, but he had a very, very deep understanding of the kind of obsessive behaviour that drives hackers, programmers, and gamers. This turned out to be infinitely more important than the technology involved, or silly little details like how much RAM was in your calculator. He saw computers and programming to be akin to a drug addiction, and Case's addiction to speed and "anything up" was very much in line with the kind of chemical addictions that programmers are drawn to in real life.
No, it was six megs, and he was fencing it to pay for a bus ticket to a nearby town.
In other words, he was getting all of about $60 for it, which is right about in line for the price of RAM in the mid 90s, when the book was set.
and proceeded to unleash every special attack under the sun to dispose of you in about three seconds.
Oh, so you have played Counterstrike...
The real answer is to put people to work answering the phone. Yes, they cost more than the computer system costs in the short term,
I have news for you. Businesses make things cheaper because YOU asked them to be cheaper. Now shut up and be happy that you got what you asked for.
1. Take a $0.69 notebook.
2. Glue on a wind-up alarm clock. (and remember to set it again for the next alarm)
3. Glue on a calendar.
4. Glue on a phone book.
5. Glue on a deck of cards. Make sure you glue on the box they come in, or they'll be impossible to use.
6. Glue on the "Lord of the Rings", "Code Complete" and "Core Mysql." Be careful not to stick the pages together.
7. Glue on a chess set. Preferrably magnetic for use while travelling.
8. Glue on a calculator.
9. Alphabetize the whole thing and affix color-coded tabs where needed for quick and easy access. Don't ever mess up the organization by putting something in the wrong place.
10. Photocopy the thing periodically for backups.
Presto! You have your very own Palm Pilot that you built yourself! Total cost: $150 (not including cost of books). Time taken: 80 hours (mostly due to excruciating coallation and alphabetization) plus time to dry. Total weight: 18 pounds.
Amen... for extra bonus points, dress her up in nothing but a bow, and start off with some hot girl-on-girl action.
No no. You don't start that kind of thing until after he's done. Then the girls aren't bored and feeling left out, and maybe even gets him up again.
Threesomes are actually the hardest form of group sex, since there's an odd number of participants. Unless someone's a voyeur, someone's likely to feel left out.
I can understand that this fanboy is upset about how the movie is different from the book, but for the love of god, grow up!
Anyone who critiques a movie based on a book this way clearly has such limited experience with reading that it's plainly obvious they're either not yet out of high school, or the genre* they read is so obscure that noone cares enough to bother writing movies in it.
So what if Tom Bombadill isn't in the movie? So what if some of the lines aren't quite the same? This movie actually took lines directly from the book. He should be glad that it's this accurate! Most of the time when you have a movie adaptation, there should be a line in the credits that says "loosely based on the book". Very loosely. As in, "There's a character we took from the book and a couple plot elements."
LotR is a movie made by fans, for fans. The credits even give kudos to every member of the fan club for god's sake.
* intentionally not plural.
I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP. Here's our rough figures:
New mail server, bought last February: $2500
FreeBSD 4.8: $0.
Qmail: $0.
Vpopmail: $0.
qmail-scanner: $0.
Spamassassin: $0.
F-prot antivirus for unix file servers: $400/year/server.
My time*: $3000.
Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching sendmail admins patching: priceless.
Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching server load averages go from 20 to 0.02: priceless.
Adding on spamassassin server wide and watching server load averages go from 0.02 to 3.0: well, it's still better than sendmail was.
Watching the server eat 30,000 viruses a day during the MyDoom attack after months of hard work: totally righteous.
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's my Boss' Mastercard. Accepted in places where Open Source Software impresses geeks like me.
* I'd never before used any of the software listed above. It took a while to learn it all in between tech support calls.
What album cover? I've never seen it.
You go ahead and laugh. It's not all fun and games you know. "Oh, you get paid to fuck around" you say.
It was gay porn.
And I was the bottom.
You might think that your boss is fucking you now but you know nothing.
Oh sure, you say. Greatest job in the world, you say. How could I complain, you say.
It was gay porn.
And I was the bottom.
You might think that your boss is fucking you now but you know nothing.
The router is choking on PORN
My first impression was actually "Oh, you must run a mail server too..."
The F-prot antivirus definitions have it, as of the 19th. They have a nice *nix scanner that can be plugged into software like qmailscanner, which can scan all incoming and outgoing messages. They also have sane per-server pricing for ISPs.
I'm looking forward to seeing how much of an impact this will make on our mail server. Currently viruses make up less than 5% of our filtered mail. The rest is spam.
Oh, wonderful, cellular popups...
Of course, that will go the way of the dodo soon enough, after enough people throw bricks with love letters attached through the windows of those burning your airtime for fun and profit.