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  1. Being in the Newpaper biz..... on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 1

    ....we are constantly reminded that we HAVE to get a paper out. So, I keep a big roll of paper and a box of crayons around just in case we have a problem with one of my systems. Heck, we even managed to get a paper out here in the northeast when the power went BOOM.....

    course, I have renamed the business. We are not in the news biz, we are in the deforestation biz.

  2. Free Beer for life on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 1

    I do the IT for a friends' beer store - we just put in a new POS system and camera's so he can wathc the store from home.

    Now - It's free beer for life!!!

  3. If your SS number starts with ZERO on What Has Number Portability Done For You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ....Expect a LONG wait. Moving to Sprint from Verion for business reasons they said 2.5 to 6 hours. A week later, I was still waiting - and you are going to love the reason - the programmers had set the SS number fields as numeric - so anything with a leading zero - would not port.

    It's 10 days later and here I sit - without it ported.........what a joke

  4. Re:Over 1,000 - no, wait on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 1

    There are exactly 1,372 offending lines of code..........I can prove that there are 25,647 known bad lines of code............I have definite proof that there are 1,000,000 known communists in the Linux kernel - ahh....I mean, lines of stolen code.....

  5. .....they're worth it IF..... on What is the Value of an MBA to a Techie? · · Score: 1

    IF.....you realize that the value is in the thought process. An MBA will give you the accounting, OB, stuff that the academics like......but.....the different thought process and the concept that a really cool idea is not destined to Make Money is the real value. Want to not waste that VC money - get an MBA.....

  6. This one we start enforcement with Congress on Enter The 'Stupid Patent Tricks' Contest · · Score: 1

    I am patenting the process whereby someones sight has been hampered due to the placement of their optical sensors in the lower human excretory oriface. Known better as Cranial REctal Inversion - or Head up ones Ass......

  7. Welcome to the wonderful world of de-regulation on The Joys Of Big Business; or Why AT&T Long Distance Sux · · Score: 1

    You are exactly right that it is illegal. But.....every state handles it differently and the rules are not always the rules. We once had fine phone and mail delivery systems.....then the 'profit monster'got in the way. Good Luck

  8. Can you say Blivit? on Digital Convergence Likes Hackers (?) · · Score: 1

    DC must think that we don't know a blivit when we see one. You know what a blivit is, don't you..... 10lb's of festering excrement in a 5lb sack.......

  9. Formats......we know what good that has done Radio on Are Formats What Napster Really Needs? · · Score: 2

    OK Adam. I've 20 plus years of broadcast and computing too. Formats and the subsequent addition of the "Radio Consultant" (anyone remember the WKRP episode - it's for real) are the deathknell of creativity. Let's let it be fun and unique - not a 'top 40' wasteland.

  10. Maxspeed and Linux on Another Win For Linux At The Cash Register · · Score: 2

    This is a really good thing - I've used Maxspeed (with VM386 multiuser DOS - ok - but the install has been in place 7 years and running strong) and they make fab product. They may not be Big and'Active' but they are responsible and worth a look.