You're bills bitch because of this fsckin DCMA. Any tampering you do with the system can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The closest thing apple has to an xbox might be the IPOD, but you don't see apple forcing people to close down their sites for the custom hacks they make for it. We HAVE seen MS shut down shit in a heartbeat, remember the port of mame to the Xbox? MS took no time in that. Something as tame as an emulator got shut out in a heartbeat.
So yes, if you buy an Xbox, you're bill's bitch until the DMCA is repealled. Bend over and grease up, cause if you even remove a screw, you're gonna get a screw in your ass.
Seriously folks, do we need to give more money to the red devil?
Just the other day I was strolling around in fry's. I had just bought some KVM cables and I needed a gender changer when I saw the neatest thing I seen in a while. I don't remember the name but i'll try and be as detailed as possible...
There was this tiny mobo at fry's with a 800mhz CPU soldered on board. The thing couldn't have been bigger than a mousepad. It had video out, firewire, usb, bunch of other stuff on it.
The price?
Only $129!
I know a lot of people want to use the xbox as a cheap linux station, but seriously folks, everytime an xbox is purchased it goes back to satan himself.
Now even though this lil mobo/cpu thingy didn't have the latest nvidia chip, I could slap up to 2 pc100 dimms in there. It's a helluva lot smaller than an xbox. If I wanted a pretty injected plastic moulded case I could walk over to the next isle and grab a project box. (I was thinkin tap plastic acrylics)
So which would you rather have? xbox (and you're bills bitch)+70 bucks for a mod chip 129 cpu mobo combo and some spare parts you got layin around the garage.
Dell makes great stuff, but hardly worth the price it fetches.
I just slapped together a dual p4 xeon2.0ghz system for 2500. It has a gig of rambus, 80 gighd, DVD burner and a gforce4ti4200 something a rather.
Dell only offered Xeons in the p3 flavor, similiar setup for around 800 dollars more.
I used to be a sysadmin, I know all the service benefits dell gives (pre-imaged systems, 24hr on-site part replacement, ect) but I think if you compare the cost a network being admin'ed by dell with a sysadmin who just "makes calls to dell" all day to the cost of a network being admin'd by a sysadmin who maintains an inventory of spare parts, uses ghost or NT2k Remote installation services, and buys his/her parts from a local screwdriver shop I really do think you would see a huge difference.
Parts don't really break that often, windows does. Especially outlook. Is there really a savings to pay for that dell "protection money"?
If you're currently a sysadmin in charge of some large corporate network, speak with your dollars, not with your slashdot. Try and talk your company into standardizing on a single platform. Here let me spec out a good standard...
Nvidia video (single unified driver = less driver headaches) Creative sound (the standard by which all follow) 3com networking
Other than the motherboards changing over the next few years you won't really need to do a lot of work to maintain these machines over the next few years. Be smart, implement home directories and tell everyone to put whatever they want backed up in there. That way you can wipe their machines without hassle.
well, thats my 0.02. Wish I had caught the article sooner.
Yeah tell that to every one of my unemployed sysadmin friends.
Bush is the problem, Clinton did a wonderful job of keeping osama happy. We only had 1 weak attack on the WTC and some conflict in somalia during his presidency. Actually, the WTC carbombing happened during Bush Sr. reign of "no new taxes" so that puts the score of home based attacks for clinton 0, bush jr & sr 2.
The country is in worse shape than you're willing to see my friend. The.gov is lying about exactly how fucked up it is. Look around you, how many of your friends are out of work? Of those friends, how many have been out of work for a year or more?
Bush cheated to get into office, and he's running the country according to his own agenda. He's cheating the american taxpayer by throwing everything into the military. He sucks he sucks he sucks.
And fuck you for saying this.
what do show is your amazing stupidity:
You can't even use proper fucking grammer you twit and you call me stupid? Fuck you. By your level of grammer i'd say you're still in gradeschool. It should be.
what you have shown is your amazing stupidity:
or even simpler
what you show is your amazing stupidity:
Unfortunately you're a moron, utterly and completly devoid of anything resembling a brain. In fact, instead of brains, you have shit. That's right, shit. Instead of a spinal column you have your colon stretching up your neck into your head. That's why when you talk shit, you don't use proper english grammer. Twit.
Life is good in my neighborhood now and it's getting better.
Since the last time I talked about this i've moved the wire out of the hole and patched up the wall. The wire now runs into the garage where i've moved most of my equipment. Call it a silicon valley tradition!
For the 4th we used some good ol shoutcast to have a Super Stereo Effect. One house did the left and the other did the right. Pretty neat.
Sorry congress and asscroft. You're trying to dumb down our kids by restricting this technology. So what if it isn't some classroom, I bet if you ask any of these kids about the topology of a p2p network they could tell ya. Yeah yeah, some nameserver, blah blah, it's fuckin DNS big woop.
A persons reasons for learning this technology could stem everywhere from video games, file swapping, chat. These can lead to higher things such as networking and scripting, which can go one step further which is pure code.
I own my house, i'm gonna teach my neighborhood how to rip cd's, network computers and why they need to learn it. Tough shit if you don't like it, I think it's going to add to the value of the neighborhood.
One of the coolest things we got runnin now is a webcam. I catch ppl in the act of letting their dogs shit on my lawn. It's a fuckin riot when you do a playback for them. The other neighbors are into it too, we just all point out in our front yards.
We all gotta vote in 2 years people. Sorry for taking a political soapbox here but BUSH SUCKS! Serious guys, i'm still poor as shit, living off of ramen. Despite all attempts at finding work all I get is a temp agent baiting a job just to get my resume. Hmm, must eat ramen to make house payments yum. Ever watch yourself lose 60lbs in a year?
It seems there is an overwhelming push by the goverment to get our young people into the military. Look at the new Reality Show Boot camp. They're trying to appeal to the MTV kids those dirty bastards.
Troll me or not, this was a pretty political story, and these are my convictions and I stand by them. I will not be made to change my opinion on the basis of what karma I might get. I urge everyone in a similiar situation to mine if they've never voted before, please go down tomorrow and get registered to vote. IMPEACH BUSH!
Combine this with a fun GUI and we can chase osama out Afghanistan. So he hides in the tunnels eh? Just load up another GUI and down some tunnels we go!
Has slashdot even reported on the recent web casting fee's the copyright office and CARP (Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel) is setting up?
From the article.
The official fee's come in at a rate of.07 cents per song which is streamed live online and a lower rate of.02 cents per stream for simulcasted and / or archived broadcasts. There is also an additional fee to keep copies of the music on the web server of 8.8 percent of the entire royalty fee, which is tacked on top of the total cost of the royalty rates.
Now some of you are wondering, why does this matter? Well for one thing one of my favorite webcasting stations is gone now. Soma FM had to close shop because of this.
I think this story is much better than internal conflicts at some huge corporation, don't you? Talk about greed, CARP wants 15,000@ month out of somafm. Total BS
The first image that came to mind when I read that title was of a small robot, maybe the size of the martian land rover that roamed around painting large canvas's.
It's underside would have a inkjet cartridge, battery powered, and completely remote via infa red or 802.11.
You suck for not making something like this HP. I know everyone want's one.
Does this mean firewire support will finally be coming to Virtual Dub? I think vdub is a kick ass program but now that the guy I do capture for has a Sony PCR-DC1 I gotta use premier, which is sort of fat and bloated (sorry adobe)
I see like 12 or so totally offtopic comments saying BSD is dead. Here is what I have to say about it.
In the last month, as a hobbyist i've set up 3 BSD systems.
I like BSD, the install isn't bloated, the system boots up REALLY fast, and it really is a better place to start than Linux if you want to learn UNIX standards.
This message is coming to you through a transparent squid proxy:)
I fucking hated office toys at ricochet support. Some of you might have read my former comments about the company and it's culture, well here's a bad tale of office toys from the evergrowing adventures of toqer...
I got my job at ricochet right after quitting my job as a grey market motherboard salesman. Somehow I manged to convince Mike Newton that I was phone support material and subsequently landed the job. I excelled at my post to the point where some of the lackies started to ph34r m3.
One of the first things I noticed was all the "old school" staff had these nerf guns. I asked Jaqueline Schuman if I could get one of these.
"No only LEVEL 2 techs may have them" Fucking bitch. Fuck you.
The senior techs used to love waste hours of the day just having nerf wars back and forth, unfortunately it was us level 1 techs that got caught in the crossfire. Here those jackasses would screw off all day, and on top of it make our jobs harder by pelting us with nerf balls.
On this paticular day, I had been on the phone trying to help a customer when a nerf ball hit me right in my plantronics. I knew where it came from, I looked over at Jaquelines cube to see her pretending to be innocent.
I grabbed that ball and hurled it. I wanted to hit above her head to scare her a bit, but I misjudged, held the ball too long, and it struck her right in the face. Hard.. Really hard..
Mark something a rather just saw my volley, he didn't see hers. BLAM fucking asshole picked up the ball, and I got nailed in the plantronics a second time.
Well after I got fired from there (after numerous underhanded attempts to get me to quit) I vowed never to work in an office that allowed this kind of horseplay again, and I never did.
Point is, linux had a sizable market share when this entire shennanigan began. It would have been in the DVD makers best interest to have a player availiable for the system.
under linux why didn't the recording industry just create a legitimate DVD player for linux?
I still don't see how they have a case, he never profitted from his efforts (other than he might have gotten a job interview for creating DeCSS)
We wouldn't have this problem if mother teresa ran the record companies. The RIAA wants to eat your grandparents and prevent you from making legitimate backups of them.
Oh and your drive probably went corrupt due to a lack of maintenence on your part. Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,
How many times have sysadmins had to repeat that one?
You know, using a computer is a lot like driving a car. Every so often you have to do maintenence on it. You have to wash it, you have to clean out the fast food wrappers, you have to change the oil.
Seeing as how computers are becoming as prevelant as autos in the US, if you don't learn these basic skills you cannot drive. Period.
Admins should be there for 2 things. Set things up so they can't go wrong. Fix things when they do go wrong.
I've never read in any job advertisement for a sysadmin...
Duties include Explaining why windows crashes (does anyone have a real answer?) Becoming a third brain lobe for the executives because they cannot fill their precious MBA heads with such trivial stuff Doing work for people too unqualified for their jobs. Can never display angst on the job, must be in a full time psudo "prozac" happyness.
See, that is reality for sysadmins everywhere. Let me tell you a funny story.
There was this one company I worked for that had a webmistriss. She called me over one day because she "was having problems" I had to sit there and teach her how to upload a file to the webserver, how to create transparent gif's, how to do this and that until 4 hours later I pretty much built the company website. Who do you think got the credit? Did I even get a thanks? Fuck no!
It really eats me that just about anyone can present a doctored resume, BS well in an interview, and get a job just by knowing what technilogical "buzzwords" a interviewer want's to hear.
So don't cry me a river about disconnects. Not my fault HR failed and hired stupid people or some exec wanted to give his neice a job (which was my case) How can there be a disconnect if the person doesn't even know how to do their frickin job? It's not a complex question, it's pretty simple. Why do corporations do this shit? Huh?
(e.g. what is the smtp server address? can you recover the data on my nonfunctioning NTFS drive? etc.)
Answer 1, depends on your network. I always have this answer memorized. Of course if you were creative you would simply look at your outlook settings to find this info out, but again you are a lazy SOB. Any admin that can't memorize the IP adresses or DNS names of major servers is a retard.
Answer 2, Depends on what's wrong with the drive. You can use a NT boot disk (I get my instructions from jsiinc.com) and run chkdsk on it. Might need to run fixmbr and fixboot too. In the event of a catastrophic hardware failure Hopefully your IT department was smart enough to use connected online backup (because maintaining tapes for all users is a bitch). Hopefully YOU were smart enough to leave checkmarks next to the folders you wanted backed up.
No i'm not the normal NT certified on paper kind of guy. I actually know wtf i'm doing. You on the other hand are a typical user.
Any sysadmin ever gets uppity with me over a simple question
A simple question would be one thing, a simple question repeated over and over again by the same person could be seen as a sign of insanity. I.e.
3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable *taken from websters*
The folly being, the user just relies on the support personal to do the thinking for them on the most basic of computer functions.
Take for example, someone that asks too many questions about M$ office suites.
There are many small schools out there inside of places like staples that can provide the *proper* enviroment for training in these softwares. Yet most people tend to rely on their internal support staff for things like changing the color and size of fonts.
Since learning is important to a support person, and not a user, then wouldn't the support persons time be better spent learning how to lessen their own load? Simple things like having time set aside to lay out templates, use the answer wizard for office installs to create better automated installs (with said included templates) Create documentation (which is useless because lazy people would rather ask questions)
Thing you don't realize is if you quit wasting all the admins time on your patheticly stupid simple questions, he, she, they would have more time to make your life easier and simpler.
I've yet to walk into a company who's management want's to take this type of proactive support because most upper management relies very heavily on this "just in time" support model. It sucks, I've been through it enough. I think the whole MS product line is a complete waste of time for IT departments because ultimately it is the users and upper management that fuck it up... Not the admins.
So next time you ask your sysadmin a stupid word question, better hope it's not me, cause i'm a 190lb lean mean gorrilla now that I go out and exercise daily. We'll see who tosses who out the window OK?
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But where is my flying car? It's 2002 already and I was promised a flying car!
You obviously haven't been following the DeCSS case have you?
shit i can't even afford 14-15 bucks for a blank dvd right now.
Seriously, the difference in parts between a DVDR and a CDR is minimal, there is no reason why they shouldn't be priced accordingly.
When I'm making that $$$ again and a $200dollar DVDR doesn't make me think about "Gee if I buy this I can't eat my ramen"
You're bills bitch because of this fsckin DCMA. Any tampering you do with the system can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The closest thing apple has to an xbox might be the IPOD, but you don't see apple forcing people to close down their sites for the custom hacks they make for it. We HAVE seen MS shut down shit in a heartbeat, remember the port of mame to the Xbox? MS took no time in that. Something as tame as an emulator got shut out in a heartbeat.
So yes, if you buy an Xbox, you're bill's bitch until the DMCA is repealled. Bend over and grease up, cause if you even remove a screw, you're gonna get a screw in your ass.
Oops my bad, red devil is good, SATAN is bad.
Seriously folks, do we need to give more money to the red devil?
Just the other day I was strolling around in fry's. I had just bought some KVM cables and I needed a gender changer when I saw the neatest thing I seen in a while. I don't remember the name but i'll try and be as detailed as possible...
There was this tiny mobo at fry's with a 800mhz CPU soldered on board. The thing couldn't have been bigger than a mousepad. It had video out, firewire, usb, bunch of other stuff on it.
The price?
Only $129!
I know a lot of people want to use the xbox as a cheap linux station, but seriously folks, everytime an xbox is purchased it goes back to satan himself.
Now even though this lil mobo/cpu thingy didn't have the latest nvidia chip, I could slap up to 2 pc100 dimms in there. It's a helluva lot smaller than an xbox. If I wanted a pretty injected plastic moulded case I could walk over to the next isle and grab a project box. (I was thinkin tap plastic acrylics)
So which would you rather have?
xbox (and you're bills bitch)+70 bucks for a mod chip
129 cpu mobo combo and some spare parts you got layin around the garage.
Dell makes great stuff, but hardly worth the price it fetches.
I just slapped together a dual p4 xeon2.0ghz system for 2500. It has a gig of rambus, 80 gighd, DVD burner and a gforce4ti4200 something a rather.
Dell only offered Xeons in the p3 flavor, similiar setup for around 800 dollars more.
I used to be a sysadmin, I know all the service benefits dell gives (pre-imaged systems, 24hr on-site part replacement, ect) but I think if you compare the cost a network being admin'ed by dell with a sysadmin who just "makes calls to dell" all day to the cost of a network being admin'd by a sysadmin who maintains an inventory of spare parts, uses ghost or NT2k Remote installation services, and buys his/her parts from a local screwdriver shop I really do think you would see a huge difference.
Parts don't really break that often, windows does. Especially outlook. Is there really a savings to pay for that dell "protection money"?
If you're currently a sysadmin in charge of some large corporate network, speak with your dollars, not with your slashdot. Try and talk your company into standardizing on a single platform. Here let me spec out a good standard...
Nvidia video (single unified driver = less driver headaches)
Creative sound (the standard by which all follow)
3com networking
Other than the motherboards changing over the next few years you won't really need to do a lot of work to maintain these machines over the next few years. Be smart, implement home directories and tell everyone to put whatever they want backed up in there. That way you can wipe their machines without hassle.
well, thats my 0.02. Wish I had caught the article sooner.
Yeah tell that to every one of my unemployed sysadmin friends.
.gov is lying about exactly how fucked up it is. Look around you, how many of your friends are out of work? Of those friends, how many have been out of work for a year or more?
Bush is the problem, Clinton did a wonderful job of keeping osama happy. We only had 1 weak attack on the WTC and some conflict in somalia during his presidency. Actually, the WTC carbombing happened during Bush Sr. reign of "no new taxes" so that puts the score of home based attacks for clinton 0, bush jr & sr 2.
The country is in worse shape than you're willing to see my friend. The
Bush cheated to get into office, and he's running the country according to his own agenda. He's cheating the american taxpayer by throwing everything into the military. He sucks he sucks he sucks.
And fuck you for saying this.
what do show is your amazing stupidity:
You can't even use proper fucking grammer you twit and you call me stupid? Fuck you. By your level of grammer i'd say you're still in gradeschool. It should be.
what you have shown is your amazing stupidity:
or even simpler
what you show is your amazing stupidity:
Unfortunately you're a moron, utterly and completly devoid of anything resembling a brain. In fact, instead of brains, you have shit. That's right, shit. Instead of a spinal column you have your colon stretching up your neck into your head. That's why when you talk shit, you don't use proper english grammer. Twit.
I've commented on this before.
Life is good in my neighborhood now and it's getting better.
Since the last time I talked about this i've moved the wire out of the hole and patched up the wall. The wire now runs into the garage where i've moved most of my equipment. Call it a silicon valley tradition!
For the 4th we used some good ol shoutcast to have a Super Stereo Effect. One house did the left and the other did the right. Pretty neat.
Sorry congress and asscroft. You're trying to dumb down our kids by restricting this technology. So what if it isn't some classroom, I bet if you ask any of these kids about the topology of a p2p network they could
tell ya. Yeah yeah, some nameserver, blah blah, it's fuckin DNS big woop.
A persons reasons for learning this technology could stem everywhere from video games, file swapping, chat. These can lead to higher things such as networking and scripting, which can go one step further which is pure code.
I own my house, i'm gonna teach my neighborhood how to rip cd's, network computers and why they need to learn it. Tough shit if you don't like it, I think it's going to add to the value of the neighborhood.
One of the coolest things we got runnin now is a webcam. I catch ppl in the act of letting their dogs shit on my lawn. It's a fuckin riot when you do a playback for them. The other neighbors are into it too, we just all point
out in our front yards.
We all gotta vote in 2 years people. Sorry for taking a political soapbox here but BUSH SUCKS! Serious guys, i'm still poor as shit, living off of ramen. Despite all attempts at finding work all I get is a temp agent baiting a
job just to get my resume. Hmm, must eat ramen to make house payments yum. Ever watch yourself lose 60lbs in a year?
It seems there is an overwhelming push by the goverment to get our young people into the military. Look at the new Reality Show Boot camp. They're trying to appeal to the MTV kids those dirty bastards.
Troll me or not, this was a pretty political story, and these are my convictions and I stand by them. I will not be made to change my opinion on the basis of what karma I might get. I urge everyone in a similiar situation
to mine if they've never voted before, please go down tomorrow and get registered to vote. IMPEACH BUSH!
thank you
--Toq
Combine this with a fun GUI and we can chase osama out Afghanistan. So he hides in the tunnels eh? Just load up another GUI and down some
tunnels we go!
Has slashdot even reported on the recent web casting fee's the copyright office and CARP (Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel) is setting up?
From the article.
The official fee's come in at a rate of .07 cents per song which is streamed live online and a lower rate of .02 cents per stream for simulcasted and / or archived broadcasts. There is also an additional fee to keep copies
of the music on the web server of 8.8 percent of the entire royalty fee, which is tacked on top of the total cost of the royalty rates.
Now some of you are wondering, why does this matter? Well for one thing one of my favorite webcasting stations is gone now. Soma
FM had to close shop because of this.
I think this story is much better than internal conflicts at some huge corporation, don't you? Talk about greed, CARP wants 15,000@ month out of somafm. Total BS
--toq
We have legal medical marijuana, we're allways lookin for better ways to cool the smoke :)
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HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology
The first image that came to mind when I read that title was of a small robot, maybe the size of the martian land rover that roamed around painting large canvas's.
It's underside would have a inkjet cartridge, battery powered, and completely remote via infa red or 802.11.
You suck for not making something like this HP. I know everyone want's one.
Does this mean firewire support will finally be coming to Virtual Dub? I think vdub is a kick ass program but now that the guy I do capture for has a Sony PCR-DC1 I gotta use premier,
which is sort of fat and bloated (sorry adobe)
I see like 12 or so totally offtopic comments saying BSD is dead. Here is what I have to say about it.
:)
In the last month, as a hobbyist i've set up 3 BSD systems.
I like BSD, the install isn't bloated, the system boots up REALLY fast, and it really is a better place to start than Linux if you want to learn UNIX standards.
This message is coming to you through a transparent squid proxy
Now for some on topic stuff.
SMP on PPC? Cool beans!
--toq
I fucking hated office toys at ricochet support. Some of you might have read my former comments about the company and it's culture, well here's a bad tale of office toys from the evergrowing adventures of toqer...
I got my job at ricochet right after quitting my job as a grey market motherboard salesman. Somehow I manged to convince Mike Newton that I was phone support material and subsequently landed the job. I excelled at my post to the point where some of the lackies started to ph34r m3.
One of the first things I noticed was all the "old school" staff had these nerf guns. I asked Jaqueline Schuman if I could get one of these.
"No only LEVEL 2 techs may have them"
Fucking bitch. Fuck you.
The senior techs used to love waste hours of the day just having nerf wars back and forth, unfortunately it was us level 1 techs that got caught in the crossfire. Here those jackasses would screw off all day, and on top of it make our jobs harder by pelting us with nerf balls.
On this paticular day, I had been on the phone trying to help a customer when a nerf ball hit me right in my plantronics. I knew where it came from, I looked over at Jaquelines cube to see her pretending to be innocent.
I grabbed that ball and hurled it. I wanted to hit above her head to scare her a bit, but I misjudged, held the ball too long, and it struck her right in the face. Hard.. Really hard..
Mark something a rather just saw my volley, he didn't see hers. BLAM fucking asshole picked up the ball, and I got nailed in the plantronics a second time.
Well after I got fired from there (after numerous underhanded attempts to get me to quit) I vowed never to work in an office that allowed this kind of horseplay again, and I never did.
--toq
You all missed my point...
Point is, linux had a sizable market share when this entire shennanigan began. It would have been in the DVD makers best interest to have a player availiable for the system.
under linux why didn't the recording industry just create a legitimate DVD player for linux?
I still don't see how they have a case, he never profitted from his efforts (other than he might have gotten a job interview for creating DeCSS)
We wouldn't have this problem if mother teresa ran the record companies. The RIAA wants to eat your grandparents and prevent you from making legitimate backups of them.
Oh and your drive probably went corrupt due to a lack of maintenence on your part. Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,Scandisk, defrag, chkdsk on reboot,
How many times have sysadmins had to repeat that one?
You know, using a computer is a lot like driving a car. Every so often you have to do maintenence on it. You have to wash it, you have to clean out the fast food wrappers, you have to change the oil.
Seeing as how computers are becoming as prevelant as autos in the US, if you don't learn these basic skills you cannot drive. Period.
Admins should be there for 2 things.
Set things up so they can't go wrong.
Fix things when they do go wrong.
I've never read in any job advertisement for a sysadmin...
Duties include
Explaining why windows crashes (does anyone have a real answer?)
Becoming a third brain lobe for the executives because they cannot fill their precious MBA heads with such trivial stuff
Doing work for people too unqualified for their jobs.
Can never display angst on the job, must be in a full time psudo "prozac" happyness.
See, that is reality for sysadmins everywhere. Let me tell you a funny story.
There was this one company I worked for that had a webmistriss. She called me over one day because she "was having problems" I had to sit there and teach her how to upload a file to the webserver, how to create transparent gif's, how to do this and that until 4 hours later I pretty much built the company website. Who do you think got the credit? Did I even get a thanks? Fuck no!
It really eats me that just about anyone can present a doctored resume, BS well in an interview, and get a job just by knowing what technilogical "buzzwords" a interviewer want's to hear.
So don't cry me a river about disconnects. Not my fault HR failed and hired stupid people or some exec wanted to give his neice a job (which was my case) How can there be a disconnect if the person doesn't even know how to do their frickin job? It's not a complex question, it's pretty simple. Why do corporations do this shit? Huh?
nuff said.
(e.g. what is the smtp server address? can you recover the data on my nonfunctioning NTFS drive? etc.)
Answer 1, depends on your network. I always have this answer memorized. Of course if you were creative you would simply look at your outlook settings to find this info out, but again you are a lazy SOB. Any admin that can't memorize the IP adresses or DNS names of major servers is a retard.
Answer 2, Depends on what's wrong with the drive. You can use a NT boot disk (I get my instructions from jsiinc.com) and run chkdsk on it. Might need to run fixmbr and fixboot too. In the event of a catastrophic hardware failure Hopefully your IT department was smart enough to use connected online backup (because maintaining tapes for all users is a bitch). Hopefully YOU were smart enough to leave checkmarks next to the folders you wanted backed up.
No i'm not the normal NT certified on paper kind of guy. I actually know wtf i'm doing. You on the other hand are a typical user.
LOL
Yeah that's real funny, could explain why I'm married.
Girl Logic True for %90 of females
Bad Boys > Good boys
Or if the process belongs to me.
kill processname
D9 Cat
:)
Droool, big machines
Any sysadmin ever gets uppity with me over a simple question
A simple question would be one thing, a simple question repeated over and over again by the same person could be seen as a sign of insanity. I.e.
3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable
*taken from websters*
The folly being, the user just relies on the support personal to do the thinking for them on the most basic of computer functions.
Take for example, someone that asks too many questions about M$ office suites.
There are many small schools out there inside of places like staples that can provide the *proper* enviroment for training in these softwares. Yet most people tend to rely on their internal support staff for things like changing the color and size of fonts.
Since learning is important to a support person, and not a user, then wouldn't the support persons time be better spent learning how to lessen their own load? Simple things like having time set aside to lay out templates, use the answer wizard for office installs to create better automated installs (with said included templates) Create documentation (which is useless because lazy people would rather ask questions)
Thing you don't realize is if you quit wasting all the admins time on your patheticly stupid simple questions, he, she, they would have more time to make your life easier and simpler.
I've yet to walk into a company who's management want's to take this type of proactive support because most upper management relies very heavily on this "just in time" support model. It sucks, I've been through it enough. I think the whole MS product line is a complete waste of time for IT departments because ultimately it is the users and upper management that fuck it up... Not the admins.
So next time you ask your sysadmin a stupid word question, better hope it's not me, cause i'm a 190lb lean mean gorrilla now that I go out and exercise daily. We'll see who tosses who out the window OK?
--toq