Yeah, I agree. We dont really throw them down the stairs. I usually convince the user to let me send them back to Verizon. Verizon says they give the phones out to charities like for battered/abused recently divorced women. At least, that's what the return envelope says. Damn try to make a joke and you get branded as a shill.
Sorry dude, remove the tinfoil hat. I am sincerely just another network admin who reads slashdot.
I just happen to not like RIM cause IMO the Iphones and Droids are better.
I exaggerate things in the hopes of making them funny.
My ID is large cause I lost the password to my old one.
If I was paid for then I want a lawyer cause I aint seen no money yet.;)
This comment is biased, way biased. I absolutely hate RIM and hope they die a slow and painful death. Their licensing scheme took advantage of us for years and now the cheapest Droid blows them away. After setting up a few Droids and a butt load of Iphones, I will offer to buy my users a smart phone just for the privilege of switching them over. That way I get to personally throw the crappy BB phone down the back stairwell myself. Then I put the BB in a box addressed to RIM HQ with a letter explaining and a video showing me and my techs throwing the damn thing against a cinder block wall.
There, I feel much better now.
PS: we only have one user left on the BES and I simply cannot wait to switch him over and turn that server off. No P to V for that server. More like P to oblivion.;)
RIM you can KMA, long live the Iphone, long live the Droid.
We did not have as easy access to student loans as folks do now. Had to work my way through. Of course, not being a minority there was no one trying to give me any money either. Just Sayin if you are a healthy Caucasian male in America you should damn well be able to make it without a helping hand and I did.
I could believe that easy access to loans would tend to drive up enrollment numbers and also the price of school. Used to work for them admins in the college. Believe me they are very interested in raising fees and tuition as much as possible.
I say screw em, take away the loans and let the kids work for a living. If it takes you 6-7 years to get a 4 year degree because you had to earn the money then pay the school then be allowed to attend classes then graduate, you'll have less students but the ones you do end up with will be serious about graduating.
I hear Alabama is looking for some labor right about now.
Now get off my lawn.
So, you're saying we need to get people to carry more cash and make planes crash more often? I'm pretty sure one of those is illegal in most countries.
I got mod points but cant resist.
The airlines could start charging you for the little drop down oxygen masks. You know in the event you need it you got to pay. You could charge 5 bucks at the counter and a million dollars on the way down.
Yep, I've setup Itunes accounts for people to get their Iphones running. I have had folks insist that their password simply must be 123456. Then when the Apple site wont take that they simply must have ABC123456. Dumb asses. It's right about then that I start making them pay up front.
I totally agree, who the hell would buy Cisco stuff from that site and think it was legit? Certainly not our military or government. All jokes aside this lady made millions with a site like that? No way, I say it was a front business for drugs or stolen goods. The Cisco angle was just cover.
We should hunt down any bone head net admins who bought from them and take away their geek cards.
Forgive me please, I just crawled out from under my rock. It's cool, the rock is self imposed after all. I was busy with work and must have missed a major new story. Are you saying that in these modern times someone named Hoffa said he was gonna take people out? Obama somehow approved this message? What the hell happened. I missed something here.
If a member of a crime organization needs to kill someone they definitely do not make public statements about it. Your paranoia runs thin upon close inspection.
Yeah, I was once about 50K lines down into an old Cobol pgm. I found a little subroutine called GoManGo. Never figured out what it did for sure cause every time I handed it a little tax problem it tried to dominate the Mainframes time. Translate that one to, frantic calls from the mainframe people asking me WTF I thought I was doing and informing me that my pgm was just de-nutted by their sysops. After a little debugging I finally just cut the damn thing out and started calling the newer tax tables from the approved libraries. It was supposed to figure out how much tax to place on a pack of smokes based on the state, county, local municipality the smokes were gonna get sold at? Some old dude had written his own code to do this and it was buggy. He retired and I was sent in to figure out why the old code would not run anymore. Lots of fun, those were the days.
Ours do. You just scan the doc to PDF and chose yourself as the recipient. The Canon has a big old automatic document feeder and everything. All users who do this commonly are in the list. It will talk to AD via LDAP or even a Radius server if ya got one. Then go back to your desk and lo and behold you got an email message in your inbox and it has a PDF attached. Amazing.
The Canon Image Runner will also fax and print and even scan to a network location. (shared folder)
The best part and the one that saved us the most money and trouble is the incoming faxes. This machine will receive a fax off the phone line, turn it into a PDF and save it on a network share. Then the users just look at the folder from their desktops and do whatever they want with the doc.
Of course, it's the size of a small washing machine and cost about 10 grand. We only have 3 of them scattered around in this building.
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Yeah, I agree. We dont really throw them down the stairs. I usually convince the user to let me send them back to Verizon. Verizon says they give the phones out to charities like for battered/abused recently divorced women. At least, that's what the return envelope says.
Damn try to make a joke and you get branded as a shill.
Sorry dude, remove the tinfoil hat. I am sincerely just another network admin who reads slashdot. ;)
I just happen to not like RIM cause IMO the Iphones and Droids are better.
I exaggerate things in the hopes of making them funny.
My ID is large cause I lost the password to my old one.
If I was paid for then I want a lawyer cause I aint seen no money yet.
This comment is biased, way biased. I absolutely hate RIM and hope they die a slow and painful death. Their licensing scheme took advantage of us for years and now the cheapest Droid blows them away. After setting up a few Droids and a butt load of Iphones, I will offer to buy my users a smart phone just for the privilege of switching them over. That way I get to personally throw the crappy BB phone down the back stairwell myself. Then I put the BB in a box addressed to RIM HQ with a letter explaining and a video showing me and my techs throwing the damn thing against a cinder block wall.
;)
There, I feel much better now.
PS: we only have one user left on the BES and I simply cannot wait to switch him over and turn that server off. No P to V for that server. More like P to oblivion.
RIM you can KMA, long live the Iphone, long live the Droid.
Starve in the midst of plenty? History say, starving people take food or die trying.
We did not have as easy access to student loans as folks do now. Had to work my way through. Of course, not being a minority there was no one trying to give me any money either. Just Sayin if you are a healthy Caucasian male in America you should damn well be able to make it without a helping hand and I did.
I could believe that easy access to loans would tend to drive up enrollment numbers and also the price of school. Used to work for them admins in the college. Believe me they are very interested in raising fees and tuition as much as possible.
I say screw em, take away the loans and let the kids work for a living. If it takes you 6-7 years to get a 4 year degree because you had to earn the money then pay the school then be allowed to attend classes then graduate, you'll have less students but the ones you do end up with will be serious about graduating.
I hear Alabama is looking for some labor right about now.
Now get off my lawn.
Yeah, missed out on the Buffalo Terastations too. Article basically sucked IMO.
Lots of mod points are wasted on that crazy Chiro, Dr. Bob. Get rid of that account and your mod system will automatically improve.
Totally agree. Just give all registered users one damn mod point a day. Hard to abuse that.
So, you're saying we need to get people to carry more cash and make planes crash more often? I'm pretty sure one of those is illegal in most countries.
I got mod points but cant resist.
The airlines could start charging you for the little drop down oxygen masks. You know in the event you need it you got to pay. You could charge 5 bucks at the counter and a million dollars on the way down.
100% totally agree. After all, Windows is technically a virus.
Fire Bad
Or mini-skirts, bra burning parties, I could go on.
Hey baby, want to kill all humans?
Have you seen the new Dell laptops? I think they have proven that laptops can damn well be made of cardboard.
Not if you are immortal.
However, they do make for interesting plot lines in the books and movies.
Totally agree, this is a scam article submission. Someone is playing with us.
XKCD got it right. CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
http://xkcd.com/936/
Yep, I've setup Itunes accounts for people to get their Iphones running. I have had folks insist that their password simply must be 123456. Then when the Apple site wont take that they simply must have ABC123456. Dumb asses. It's right about then that I start making them pay up front.
I totally agree, who the hell would buy Cisco stuff from that site and think it was legit? Certainly not our military or government. All jokes aside this lady made millions with a site like that?
No way, I say it was a front business for drugs or stolen goods. The Cisco angle was just cover.
We should hunt down any bone head net admins who bought from them and take away their geek cards.
Forgive me please, I just crawled out from under my rock. It's cool, the rock is self imposed after all. I was busy with work and must have missed a major new story. Are you saying that in these modern times someone named Hoffa said he was gonna take people out? Obama somehow approved this message? What the hell happened. I missed something here.
If a member of a crime organization needs to kill someone they definitely do not make public statements about it. Your paranoia runs thin upon close inspection.
Yeah, I was once about 50K lines down into an old Cobol pgm. I found a little subroutine called GoManGo. Never figured out what it did for sure cause every time I handed it a little tax problem it tried to dominate the Mainframes time. Translate that one to, frantic calls from the mainframe people asking me WTF I thought I was doing and informing me that my pgm was just de-nutted by their sysops. After a little debugging I finally just cut the damn thing out and started calling the newer tax tables from the approved libraries. It was supposed to figure out how much tax to place on a pack of smokes based on the state, county, local municipality the smokes were gonna get sold at? Some old dude had written his own code to do this and it was buggy. He retired and I was sent in to figure out why the old code would not run anymore. Lots of fun, those were the days.
Ours do. You just scan the doc to PDF and chose yourself as the recipient. The Canon has a big old automatic document feeder and everything. All users who do this commonly are in the list. It will talk to AD via LDAP or even a Radius server if ya got one. Then go back to your desk and lo and behold you got an email message in your inbox and it has a PDF attached. Amazing.
The Canon Image Runner will also fax and print and even scan to a network location. (shared folder)
The best part and the one that saved us the most money and trouble is the incoming faxes. This machine will receive a fax off the phone line, turn it into a PDF and save it on a network share. Then the users just look at the folder from their desktops and do whatever they want with the doc.
Of course, it's the size of a small washing machine and cost about 10 grand. We only have 3 of them scattered around in this building.