Any of your co starlettes?
Any of your assistants?
Any of your interns?
Gillian Anderson?
Pamela Anderson?
Jean Claude Van Damme?
Jean Luc Picard?
Xena Warrior Princess?
Catwoman?
Yvonne Craig?
Anyone remotely famous?
My sister-inlaw?
Margret Thatcher?
Anyone dead (evil or otherwise)?
Winona Ryder?
Howard Stern?
Heidi Wall?
Willow?
Buffy?
Any of your family?
Someone too drunk to notice?
The chick who turned gay with Melissa Etheridge?
Note I currently think this was "just" a plane crash.
1 -- I worry b/c the plane originated from Boston
2 -- I worry b/c today is 11-12
3 -- I worry b/c Mike Moran said...I live in Rockaway, bitch...
4 -- I worry b/c I am in the Travel industry and my company nearly went out of business on 9-12
But all in all accident or attack my company is fucked.
I went to school to be an English Teacher. I ultimately came out of college with a History Degree, a Communications (Journalism) Degree, a Music Degree and a Linguistics Minor.
Teaching didn't pay more than I was making at the Price Club! I took a Novell Cert course because after looking at the two Sever OSes (MS & Novell) it was clear to me that Novell was obviously the better of the two and certainly Novell Admins would be in demand.:o
The first gig I got was converting Novell 3.12 to NT 4.0. I never went back. I am an NT/Notes Admin and I dig my job 80% of the time. I am slowly (but surely) switching my company to Linux (RH) and having a great time doing it.
So while I am not a "real" Sys Admin, but sort of a "Sys Admin Lite" I will be a real one as soon as I convert the last server to Linux!
I was working at Price Club/PriceCostco/Costco beamoaning my fate because when I broke it all down I realized that my job was to stack boxes neatly. (Sadly, my actual job was to make sure other stacked boxes neaty.)
I thought, "Gasp! this is my life? It's boring!"
Now I am a SysAdmin. While I read a lot more than I did when I was stacking boxes neatly (Do Not Use Cutter To Open pretty much covered my on the job reading) I am basically stacking boxes neatly. They're directories, and files, but ultimately they're just boxes.
How do I keep it interesting? I automate everything I can with Perl (man I could use an Answer::PhoneCalls module.) I learn other languages. I learn other OSes. I learn.
If you copy things out of books you will get bored. If you use books to do do things you will not. Don't be afraid to reinvent the wheel either. Just because someone has made something that sets your clock to some Atomic Clock and checks your mail doesn't mean you can do the same thing.
Slashdot uses the Perl Module Bundle::Misspell to automatically misspell words in posts. The module does have issues b/c the randomizer tends to force errors at the end of posts and in longer Katzian posts it tends to replace words towards the end.
CmdrTaco and update on when Bundle::Misspell will be updated?
Number 347 -- "In fact, it sounds like the early Wired Magazine manifestos about the Net, some of which I wrote."
Real writers do not feel the need to refer to themselves constantly.
Real writers can lucidly get a point across; So JonKatz, are you in the Globalization is evil camp or the Globalization is not evil and going to happen anywy camp?
There is something to be said for McD's and Walmart though... If I go to Singapore and I just want to eat... I don't want an adventure, I don't want to taste local offerins, I simply want to eat. McD's offers me something I know. I get a crappy burger cooked by mediocre workers who aren't ever going to get paid well as long as they stay at McD's.
If I am in Cumshot, Iowa and I need to purchase a calculator like the one I have on my desk Wal-Mart proabably has it. Mom's Calculator Shack might, but who knows?
I don't want every person in Singapore to give up their local eats, but I don't think putting a McD's in a city is potentially dangerous to the cultural well being of a people. Anymore than putting Yi Sung kitchen down the block is.
Is it at all possible that you and your crack team are just really really comfy with W2K/NT? That you are able to configure those servers better than you can a *nix box.
As for Apache being demeaned by you as a "volunteer based project written by weekend hackers" I hope you realize that it is Apache that holds the lion's share of the web server market and that IIS has been relegated to the realm of ludicrisly broken.
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I think the AC was making a joke. You can't hear it but there are some people in my office laughing at you right now.
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The AC is saying that the people from those countries had to take the IQ tests in English which would account for their (and apparently your) low IQs.
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Of course what Katz' is calling Globalization is in fact Americanization. Dropping McDonald's in Red Square or in a cave in Kabul. The pervasiveness of our media. Baywatch, Starwars, AOL, yadda yadda.
Many see this as evil, or imperialistic. How can we (USA) impose ourselves on the rest of the world? we don't respect culture (hey, we renamed our war didn't we?) and we trash all that we (USA) do not hold dear.
You mutilate your women by cutting of their clitoris -- we condemn you. You beat women who show their ankle -- we condemn you. You cane people who spray paint cars -- we condemn (and sue, and force you to change your local laws) you.
Guess what... USA is the biggest, loudest, strongest, wealthiets, fattest, healthiest, best looking country in the world. We do what we want. You can follow if you like, you don't have to, unless you want to do business with us. Then you'd better learn English (American) and get ready to know that 36 inches is a yard because we don't like the metric system.
Large, loud people often get noticed. People who get noticed tend to garner followers. How do we tell the Japanese not to be just like us when thy want to be just like us? Or the Mexicans, or the Russians, Germans, Brits, etc.
People want to be Americans. They want to be movie stars. They want to hit homeruns. American culture is cool, and glamorous, and proabably a better way of life than they have.
The thing of it is is that the Globalization isn't being forced down anyone's throat. Sure the American way of life is portrayed, in our media, which is the conduit for its expansion, as better than it really is but America practically invented Marketing; what did you expect?
The funniest part of this is that America is essentially still isolationary (is that a word?) but we tend to get dragged into things. The fact is that a lot of people want to be American. It looks good.
My argument is not dissimilar to people who say that cigarette ads don't make people smoke. They don't. So America is well marketed, and people want to be a part of that.
I recently switched over to Ximian on two RH 7.1 boxes.
Immediately I thought if this 'look' was available from the get go, and this Red Carpet thingy was available from the get go I could have sold my company on going Linux.
3 years ago of course it was not.
Now what? Well guys I know we have 500+ MS 98/NT4/2000 lics but what say we switch over to this beta-esque software.
The "easy" desktop and the Office-like products still are not available. Abi Word and Star Office aren't even close. WINE and VMware are nice but you still need to buy lics. So bottomline is that Linux still ain't ready for the average AOL/ICQ/Word set.
I think the servers rule (Mail/Apache/NFS/Samba) but the desktop needs help.
OSX has made HUGE strdes in that direction. Hopefully Linux distros will take the hint. Looks and feel matter. OH and if you can can get MS to make Office for you that's good too.
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How long was your affair with porn star Jenna Jameson?
Any of your co starlettes?
Any of your assistants?
Any of your interns?
Gillian Anderson?
Pamela Anderson?
Jean Claude Van Damme?
Jean Luc Picard?
Xena Warrior Princess?
Catwoman?
Yvonne Craig?
Anyone remotely famous?
My sister-inlaw?
Margret Thatcher?
Anyone dead (evil or otherwise)?
Winona Ryder?
Howard Stern?
Heidi Wall?
Willow?
Buffy?
Any of your family?
Someone too drunk to notice?
The chick who turned gay with Melissa Etheridge?
Note I currently think this was "just" a plane crash.
...I live in Rockaway, bitch...
1 -- I worry b/c the plane originated from Boston
2 -- I worry b/c today is 11-12
3 -- I worry b/c Mike Moran said
4 -- I worry b/c I am in the Travel industry and my company nearly went out of business on 9-12
But all in all accident or attack my company is fucked.
--The Fireman who told Osama "Come Get Me, I Live in Far Rockaway..."
--Plane crash landed in Far Rockaway.
I would love to send you my resume'
I went to school to be an English Teacher. I ultimately came out of college with a History Degree, a Communications (Journalism) Degree, a Music Degree and a Linguistics Minor.
:o
Teaching didn't pay more than I was making at the Price Club! I took a Novell Cert course because after looking at the two Sever OSes (MS & Novell) it was clear to me that Novell was obviously the better of the two and certainly Novell Admins would be in demand.
The first gig I got was converting Novell 3.12 to NT 4.0. I never went back. I am an NT/Notes Admin and I dig my job 80% of the time. I am slowly (but surely) switching my company to Linux (RH) and having a great time doing it.
So while I am not a "real" Sys Admin, but sort of a "Sys Admin Lite" I will be a real one as soon as I convert the last server to Linux!
PS -- You are way NOT too old!
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/. from anywhere and go to my fave places that aren't /.!
I need more room in my Slashbox. This way I can log into
I was working at Price Club/PriceCostco/Costco beamoaning my fate because when I broke it all down I realized that my job was to stack boxes neatly. (Sadly, my actual job was to make sure other stacked boxes neaty.)
I thought, "Gasp! this is my life? It's boring!"
Now I am a SysAdmin. While I read a lot more than I did when I was stacking boxes neatly (Do Not Use Cutter To Open pretty much covered my on the job reading) I am basically stacking boxes neatly. They're directories, and files, but ultimately they're just boxes.
How do I keep it interesting? I automate everything I can with Perl (man I could use an Answer::PhoneCalls module.) I learn other languages. I learn other OSes. I learn.
If you copy things out of books you will get bored. If you use books to do do things you will not. Don't be afraid to reinvent the wheel either. Just because someone has made something that sets your clock to some Atomic Clock and checks your mail doesn't mean you can do the same thing.
Remember You're bored, CS is not boring
Wait until you start working. Then the real sucking begins.
That's fake? It _is_ better than the real one!
I dunno I thought Ice Age looked really funny.
I love the part with the Sabre Tooth Tiger playing peek-a-boo with the (rightly) frigtened child.
He's 2 this was his review:
"I liked it but it was sad at the end, the girl was crying. More funny than Toy Story. Can I have juice?"
Slashdot uses the Perl Module Bundle::Misspell to automatically misspell words in posts. The module does have issues b/c the randomizer tends to force errors at the end of posts and in longer Katzian posts it tends to replace words towards the end.
CmdrTaco and update on when Bundle::Misspell will be updated?
Number 347 -- "In fact, it sounds like the early Wired Magazine manifestos about the Net, some of which I wrote."
Real writers do not feel the need to refer to themselves constantly.
Real writers can lucidly get a point across; So JonKatz, are you in the Globalization is evil camp or the Globalization is not evil and going to happen anywy camp?
There is something to be said for McD's and Walmart though... If I go to Singapore and I just want to eat... I don't want an adventure, I don't want to taste local offerins, I simply want to eat. McD's offers me something I know. I get a crappy burger cooked by mediocre workers who aren't ever going to get paid well as long as they stay at McD's.
If I am in Cumshot, Iowa and I need to purchase a calculator like the one I have on my desk Wal-Mart proabably has it. Mom's Calculator Shack might, but who knows?
I don't want every person in Singapore to give up their local eats, but I don't think putting a McD's in a city is potentially dangerous to the cultural well being of a people. Anymore than putting Yi Sung kitchen down the block is.
Homogeny is not evil.
Is it at all possible that you and your crack team are just really really comfy with W2K/NT? That you are able to configure those servers better than you can a *nix box.
As for Apache being demeaned by you as a "volunteer based project written by weekend hackers" I hope you realize that it is Apache that holds the lion's share of the web server market and that IIS has been relegated to the realm of ludicrisly broken.
I think the AC was making a joke. You can't hear it but there are some people in my office laughing at you right now.
The AC is saying that the people from those countries had to take the IQ tests in English which would account for their (and apparently your) low IQs.
Of course what Katz' is calling Globalization is in fact Americanization. Dropping McDonald's in Red Square or in a cave in Kabul. The pervasiveness of our media. Baywatch, Starwars, AOL, yadda yadda.
Many see this as evil, or imperialistic. How can we (USA) impose ourselves on the rest of the world? we don't respect culture (hey, we renamed our war didn't we?) and we trash all that we (USA) do not hold dear.
You mutilate your women by cutting of their clitoris -- we condemn you. You beat women who show their ankle -- we condemn you. You cane people who spray paint cars -- we condemn (and sue, and force you to change your local laws) you.
Guess what... USA is the biggest, loudest, strongest, wealthiets, fattest, healthiest, best looking country in the world. We do what we want. You can follow if you like, you don't have to, unless you want to do business with us. Then you'd better learn English (American) and get ready to know that 36 inches is a yard because we don't like the metric system.
Large, loud people often get noticed. People who get noticed tend to garner followers. How do we tell the Japanese not to be just like us when thy want to be just like us? Or the Mexicans, or the Russians, Germans, Brits, etc.
People want to be Americans. They want to be movie stars. They want to hit homeruns. American culture is cool, and glamorous, and proabably a better way of life than they have.
The thing of it is is that the Globalization isn't being forced down anyone's throat. Sure the American way of life is portrayed, in our media, which is the conduit for its expansion, as better than it really is but America practically invented Marketing; what did you expect?
The funniest part of this is that America is essentially still isolationary (is that a word?) but we tend to get dragged into things. The fact is that a lot of people want to be American. It looks good.
My argument is not dissimilar to people who say that cigarette ads don't make people smoke. They don't. So America is well marketed, and people want to be a part of that.
Whose fault is that?
I'll get to see the code for that annoying Pop Under Ad; X10 Camera.
Only an evil Gov't conspiracy can be to blame for such a thing!
You know like the way NASA monitors what cable channels you watch with the "cable box"... Oh come'on you _do_ know about that don't you?
wouldn't it be better to make them Exchange/Outlook Admins?
Seriously! It is not dissimilar to punishment to administer that crap and then people who know what they're doing won't have to touch it!
He's gotta be back. That makes no sense.
I recently switched over to Ximian on two RH 7.1 boxes.
Immediately I thought if this 'look' was available from the get go, and this Red Carpet thingy was available from the get go I could have sold my company on going Linux.
3 years ago of course it was not.
Now what? Well guys I know we have 500+ MS 98/NT4/2000 lics but what say we switch over to this beta-esque software.
The "easy" desktop and the Office-like products still are not available. Abi Word and Star Office aren't even close. WINE and VMware are nice but you still need to buy lics. So bottomline is that Linux still ain't ready for the average AOL/ICQ/Word set.
I think the servers rule (Mail/Apache/NFS/Samba) but the desktop needs help.
OSX has made HUGE strdes in that direction. Hopefully Linux distros will take the hint. Looks and feel matter. OH and if you can can get MS to make Office for you that's good too.
"He wouldn't have written 'ahhhhh,' to skip tracks on his CD player."
"Maybe he was dictating."