I mean really; so what? A company tries to drum up business. To Ma and Pa MidAmerica viruses are a scary thing.
Windows isn't going away, neither are bored teens and so we can conclude that viruses (virii if you like) aren't either. MacAffee and Symantec have the most popular AV systems at the moment and of coure they are trying to come up wih something interesting to talk about.
We all use *nix, I assume we all avoid Outlook like the plauge (that it is) and so why are we "supposed" to get angry about this?
I would assume that the Windows machines we own (for gaming, or to keep our SOs off of our OS X boxes) are locked down tight and more than likely using either NAV or MAV so how pissed can we really get about this?
Be thankful there are viruses to fight. It's probably a big part of your job.
Aged Hippie #1: Dude is this lowercase music? Well Crank It UP!
Aged Hippie #2: Yeah man.
Aged Hippie #1: No dude really, Ministry '94 really fucked up my hearing, you have to cank it up.
Aged Hippie #2:(whispers)It is up.
Ronco Announcer: This is lowercase music! Hear tea kettles as they cool off. Listen to the air inside a snare drum when no one is playing it or how about this classic; Mixer Feeding Back With No Inputs. Yeah, lowercase music rocks... (emphasized whisper)gently like a leaf on still water!
1 -- Are you on W2k? Win9x? NT4? 2 -- What do you do? Sales and marketing? Widget makers? 3 -- What about mail? What about calendaring?
Second the sane apporaoch would be to have at least three Windows machines on hand at all times, or have some sort of WINE/Virtual PC type program availble.
If the client Machines are Win9x either upgrade them to W2K or remove them from the network and add some sort of large media like Zip or Jaz drives. This is so when your Power Point Presentatioin simply will not open and/or looks like shit.
Next you really need to test the waters with your new OS. Does it have to be Linux? Could it be OS X (expensive but cheaper than MS (sort of)? Could it be SUN on Intel? Could it be FreeBSD?
Which Linux? Red Hat? Suse? Mandrake? Corel?
I think there's a lot more thinking for you to do.
Should you/Can you switch? Yeah probably. There's a lot of advice flying out there.
Why can't you simply stay on what you have and not upgrade? They can't force you to relicense your current SW (or are you already running XP?)
And what about mail? My guess is Mail is WAY more important that Office. That should be a top proirity. Switching from Outlook/Exchange? You've got trouble. I don't personally like them but the people that do are fanatic! What will you replace it with? The closest thing on Linux would be Lotus Notes. Notes ain't exactly fun on Linux at the moment. And Notes comes with it's own slew of issues, which as a Notes Admin/Developer I have some insight to...
I think your asking for a lot of work/trouble/aggravation and pain.
I think I might be a total loser. How on Earth is it possible that I haven't ended up on a least one stupid person's email address list? How can it be?
How could Apple ask the Church Of Satan to remove their "Made With A Macintosh" logo? Whatever happened to "Think Different"? Fer Chris'sakes Woz & Jobs charged $666.66USD for their first computer! Obviously they are in League With The Devil!
Those fukkers in Japan are sick little monkeys! Have you ever seen their cartoons? I'll bet they're using 35 terflops to create a wild NAZI fuck machine (ala Uroto Suki Doji.)
If you take a PC make sure you get any Licenses that come with it otherwise you might have an illegal copy of Widows on the machine.
It's not a big deal. Their wording is idiotic but the advice is sound.
MS does not give away their OS. If someone decides to donate a hundred PCs and load them up with Linux that's fine. What MS is trying to do is pretend that all PCs run Windows.
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mergemaster -p
defiler of my master.passwd file.
so angry... must control fist of rage....
then cd /usr/src
/usr/src/UPDATING.
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot
make installworld
I keep getting ERROR: Required smmsp user is missing, see
*** Error code 1
for make installworld.... help
mergemaster
But is it possible to "upgrade" from 4.4 to OpenBSD?
I mean really; so what? A company tries to drum up business. To Ma and Pa MidAmerica viruses are a scary thing.
Windows isn't going away, neither are bored teens and so we can conclude that viruses (virii if you like) aren't either. MacAffee and Symantec have the most popular AV systems at the moment and of coure they are trying to come up wih something interesting to talk about.
We all use *nix, I assume we all avoid Outlook like the plauge (that it is) and so why are we "supposed" to get angry about this?
I would assume that the Windows machines we own (for gaming, or to keep our SOs off of our OS X boxes) are locked down tight and more than likely using either NAV or MAV so how pissed can we really get about this?
Be thankful there are viruses to fight. It's probably a big part of your job.
The counter offer is a slap in your face and will _certainly_ be used against you at a later date.
If they are suddenly willing to pay you what you are worth have them pay you retroactively as well.
In any event go to your new job -- setting up your new desk will be fun.
How do I change my Icons in OS X?
I have been clicking Show Info of the ico I want then Edit->Copy
Then I got to the program I wan the copied Icon to represent.
I click Show Info, and several variations of Paste.
It never works.
Help me.
Oh man. I only came for the disemboweling...
This blows.
:)
Aged Hippie #1: Dude is this lowercase music? Well Crank It UP!
Aged Hippie #2: Yeah man.
Aged Hippie #1: No dude really, Ministry '94 really fucked up my hearing, you have to cank it up.
Aged Hippie #2: (whispers)It is up.
Ronco Announcer: This is lowercase music! Hear tea kettles as they cool off. Listen to the air inside a snare drum when no one is playing it or how about this classic; Mixer Feeding Back With No Inputs. Yeah, lowercase music rocks... (emphasized whisper)gently like a leaf on still water!
If you previously owned Macslash.org please email me at: webmaster@edgeofheaven.com
sounds antagonistic to me
Are you trying to tell me that a 5MB empty mailbox is asking too much? A text message that says "Hi!" costing 1.2MB is somehow wasteful?
Lotus Notes Uber Alles!
Check out the Mac OSX Perl board at:
Here and specifically Here
Ergonomic keyboards suck the mighty bozakiuh for playing UT that's for sure.
Between guitar and the mouse my arms ache anyway.
for pr0n!
but otherwise that waw a little annoying.
Are they going to "fix" Perl, that's what I want to know.
This guy and his friend Hart would stop trying to kill Angel!
Pfft!
I could have done it in 2 Lines with Perl!
This movie is ancient.
Who expected a movie with Jon Bon Jovi to be particularly good?
I liked it though because unlike Das Boot it wasn't 80 hours long.
Reviews like this make me want to ESPLODE...
I am in the same boat.
My favorite rejection is...
You'll leave as soon as the economy gets better...
Meanwhile my resume shows me staying at least 3 years at every company.
And when is the economy going to get better...
I also like when the HH says, "You won't be fufilled in this position..."
Lady my fucking 2800USD mortgage is going to be fufilled if I don't get a job soon.Looks like
I'll be driving a Forklift again real soon!
First we don't really have enough info.
1 -- Are you on W2k? Win9x? NT4?
2 -- What do you do? Sales and marketing? Widget makers?
3 -- What about mail? What about calendaring?
Second the sane apporaoch would be to have at least three Windows machines on hand at all times, or have some sort of WINE/Virtual PC type program availble.
If the client Machines are Win9x either upgrade them to W2K or remove them from the network and add some sort of large media like Zip or Jaz drives. This is so when your Power Point Presentatioin simply will not open and/or looks like shit.
Next you really need to test the waters with your new OS. Does it have to be Linux? Could it be OS X (expensive but cheaper than MS (sort of)? Could it be SUN on Intel? Could it be FreeBSD?
Which Linux? Red Hat? Suse? Mandrake? Corel?
I think there's a lot more thinking for you to do.
Should you/Can you switch? Yeah probably. There's a lot of advice flying out there.
Why can't you simply stay on what you have and not upgrade? They can't force you to relicense your current SW (or are you already running XP?)
And what about mail? My guess is Mail is WAY more important that Office. That should be a top proirity. Switching from Outlook/Exchange? You've got trouble. I don't personally like them but the people that do are fanatic! What will you replace it with? The closest thing on Linux would be Lotus Notes. Notes ain't exactly fun on Linux at the moment. And Notes comes with it's own slew of issues, which as a Notes Admin/Developer I have some insight to...
I think your asking for a lot of work/trouble/aggravation and pain.
10 -- It might be the last time you see Unix
9 -- If it's down to you and a college grad for a job the college grad will probably get the job
8 -- 20 something chicks
7 -- Lesbians, lesbians, lesbians
6 -- You need to be well rounded. Learn things that aren't computer related.
5 -- I hear Microsoft has invented this thing called Zero Administration... could be trouble!
4 -- Beer.
3 -- Did I mention the Lesbians?
2 -- Because you'll hate yourself if you don't
1 -- You might find out you _don't_ want to be a Sys Admin
it was posted on Home/Depot a month ago...
(psst I hear he's baking the Lanathanum... La!)
I run OS X, Win98Se, FreeBSD & Solaris 8.
I don't use Outlook or Outlook Express.
All the machines are configured to recieve mail.
I haven't seen one Klez yet.
I think I might be a total loser. How on Earth is it possible that I haven't ended up on a least one stupid person's email address list? How can it be?
Have I no friends?
I am so ashamed....
Where do I sell it?
:)
I have Word 4.0 on it and 80 meg HD and 8 mb of RAM
I am willing to trade it for an iBook!
How could Apple ask the Church Of Satan to remove their "Made With A Macintosh" logo? Whatever happened to "Think Different"? Fer Chris'sakes Woz & Jobs charged $666.66USD for their first computer! Obviously they are in League With The Devil!
Those fukkers in Japan are sick little monkeys! Have you ever seen their cartoons? I'll bet they're using 35 terflops to create a wild NAZI fuck machine (ala Uroto Suki Doji.)
All they're saying to schools is:
If you take a PC make sure you get any Licenses that come with it otherwise you might have an illegal copy of Widows on the machine.
It's not a big deal. Their wording is idiotic but the advice is sound.
MS does not give away their OS. If someone decides to donate a hundred PCs and load them up with Linux that's fine. What MS is trying to do is pretend that all PCs run Windows.