well, I must retract this rant... I just had to call them - and the experience was great. The tech person had no problem with me handeling things my way, and was glad to hear my explainations as to what the hell I was doing and why - didn't even really need to reboot to make them happy (uptime is SAVED (yes, I'm a dork)).
so, anyway, I guess this just goes to show that not all sucks - every now and then, you find the ray of light.
Router went down. I knew it (traceroute), they didn't. I called to tell them. "ok, sir, which version of windows are you using?"... well, that was a great start... just to piss them off, I made them trouble-shoot me via my mac, which, of course, I sat there lying to them "oh, yeah, rebooted, ok, control panel... blah blah blah", like I was going to unhook my linux server. Finally got them to acknowledge that the problem didn't appear to be on my end. Duh. Several days later, got an e-mail notice apologzing to all subscribers for the interrupted service that fateful monday night due to A ROUTER in KANSAS CITY going apeshit. again, duh.
It's also damn funny to tell them every time that I run linux, just to hear the same BS speech on how they can only support Win9x and MacOS - which they also always assume you "sheep" it and buy the latest version of every OS. It just cracks me up - particularly when I will openly admit that I am NOT a true "hacker", I'm just a "hack" that likes to play with computers - and I usually know more about the freakin' network stuff than the tech support people do.
Once, I actually got through to "level 3" tech support, and they had a clue - but good god do you have to pull teeth to talk to them. Mind you, the level 3 guys are the ones that actually go out in the field and fix stuff - not the stereotypical phone-jockeys.
Anyway, enought rambling and ranting... I've things to see, people to do - or something like that...
Don't use it. Ever. See no point to it other than as a pixel decoration to take up space on the desktop. It annoys me, as a matter of fact, that when I DELETE something, it isn't actually deleted but is placed in the damn trashcan and STILL takes up hdd space.
well, yeah! it looks so nice and shiny, much like a real trash can never does, and, I still look fondly upon the days when Oscar the Grouch would come up out of the can and sing me a little song, all on my ancient Mac SE... those were the days... and mind you, I still have the SE, it still works - quite nicely once it was upgraded to a 68030 - too bad it still only has 4 meg of ram, but the hell - it still runs, and quite well. (though the trash can on my G3 is much shinier - probably due to the presence of color).
If I only had a singing muppet to grace Window Maker / GNOME... I'd be in heaven.
for god's sake, why? I hate that damn thing... it would always piss me off whenever I would install the Mac OS or upgrade it, because even if you explicitly tell the installer NOT to include the control strip, it'd give it to you anyway, and have it active upon reboot, so you have to go and rip it out again. grrr....
But anyway, being able to customize Aqua sounds damn cool, and only increases my desire to get a G4 system... I really want to see for myself what OSX can do - and yes, I really like having that spiffy little trash can on my desktop.
get together with your friends, plan on who is going to buy which CD. We all have CD-RW's. Pass 'em around, make copies that fall under the "fair use" clause, and get on with our lives. Plus, don't buy the CD's from a giant-ass chain with 6000% markup... if you're paying more than $15 for a new CD, you're an idiot. And with large orders, get 'em online for $10-12, again, with your friends, share and copy to your hearts content, and save bandwidth. This whole MP3 issue is getting really kinda trite. get on with your lives.
damn, you either already have this technology or you read my mind... the profound nature you must posses to handle such knowledge astounds me. damn, I'm amazed.
will my insurance cover any damages caused by such a hurd? I'd hate to see my yard get trampled... I took so long to plan, and I just choosed where to start my new garden. It was bad enough when a hurd of gnus killed my dog, but now a hurd of debians? man, what is this world coming to...
With my plans of running plasma fiber lines to transmit super-light-speed particles, I'll run this company into the ground. Just imagine getting data before you actually request it. It boggles the mind. Our only hurdle is to actually observe the super-light-speed particles. If anyone is really good at seeing really fast stuff, please, by all means, let me know.
I once had a polka-dot bowtie, but being horrendously out of fasion, I burned it and laughed hysterically. Sadly, it never was very good at computing anything. And think of all the dots it had. Such a waste.
I'm much fonder of Steve Howe's Quantum Guitar... its at least useful, in an asthetic way.
I wonder if they did this in certain regions of the Appalachain Mountains, if they would find any redundancies... they could look in certain areas of the Ozarks, too, or so I've been told.
Great! Once this is up and running, I can use their info to build that scale model of the entire cosmos in my backyard. I was thinking of using N-guage to match my train-set.
well, pooh. I had been working on shrinking hound dogs to the size of an electron to follow MP3's by scent. I'm sure I was only 2-3 weeks away from a major breakthrough on this, too...
do we really need another image format? do we even want another image format. you can claim all the nice enhancements / speed improvements / compression improvements you want - its still yet another damn file format that is not built into what we've already got.
sometimes it seems that people just like to try to invent something for the sake of inventing it, not on whether or not it fills some sort of real need.
sometimes, people surprise me. this would indeed be one of those times. Now, if only this decision would add some weight to the cause on this (US) side of the ocean...
either way, score one for the good-guys...
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wow... you are so profound... how ever did you guess that RedHat is one of the 4 distro's I'm currently running. If you haven't the maturity to try to post something useful, then go back to watching Scooby Doo (not that I have anything against Scooby).
Troll????? No, damnit! I really would like to have linux embedded in my coworker's skull - I have damn good reason to believe that they are not really mentally stable, and I was implying that linux may help that situation. Yes, offbeat humor, but a troll... come now, I merely warped.
And the monkey thing... that'd just be damn funny, in a sick, non-PETA sort of way.
wow... you are tremendously clever. No wonder you felt the need to post anonymously - you must fear the fame you would attract should people realize the person behind such genius. Laurels to you, kind sir.
I work in a heavily patented environment. If its not covered by a patent, then its either new and should be patented (according to the powers-that-be), or it falls under "prior art" and is free to be used. I think patents for very specific things can be good - it protects your ideas from being leached off of - BUT I really dislike patents with very borad claims - just to make other's lives miserable. Does this mean "Go patent everything specific"? No - it means patent if there is a real need to - not just for the sake of patenting. This is the curent problem - too many people thinking that they NEED patents - so they patents any stupid ass thing they think of, no matter how irrational it may be.
well, one is on the company payroll, the other is contracted. so, it is in their best intrest to keep the weak stuff out - that way they can pay attention to the more useful filings. Also, so they can determine what needs to be done to challenge other companies' weak patents that could pose potential headaches... why liscense a patent from someone if it shouldn't be there in the first place.
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so, anyway, I guess this just goes to show that not all sucks - every now and then, you find the ray of light.
It's also damn funny to tell them every time that I run linux, just to hear the same BS speech on how they can only support Win9x and MacOS - which they also always assume you "sheep" it and buy the latest version of every OS. It just cracks me up - particularly when I will openly admit that I am NOT a true "hacker", I'm just a "hack" that likes to play with computers - and I usually know more about the freakin' network stuff than the tech support people do.
Once, I actually got through to "level 3" tech support, and they had a clue - but good god do you have to pull teeth to talk to them. Mind you, the level 3 guys are the ones that actually go out in the field and fix stuff - not the stereotypical phone-jockeys.
Anyway, enought rambling and ranting... I've things to see, people to do - or something like that...
well, yeah! it looks so nice and shiny, much like a real trash can never does, and, I still look fondly upon the days when Oscar the Grouch would come up out of the can and sing me a little song, all on my ancient Mac SE... those were the days... and mind you, I still have the SE, it still works - quite nicely once it was upgraded to a 68030 - too bad it still only has 4 meg of ram, but the hell - it still runs, and quite well. (though the trash can on my G3 is much shinier - probably due to the presence of color).
If I only had a singing muppet to grace Window Maker / GNOME... I'd be in heaven.
But anyway, being able to customize Aqua sounds damn cool, and only increases my desire to get a G4 system... I really want to see for myself what OSX can do - and yes, I really like having that spiffy little trash can on my desktop.
I'm much fonder of Steve Howe's Quantum Guitar... its at least useful, in an asthetic way.
damn.
damn damn damn!
and I already had the Milkbones ready for 'em.
do we really need another image format? do we even want another image format. you can claim all the nice enhancements / speed improvements / compression improvements you want - its still yet another damn file format that is not built into what we've already got.
sometimes it seems that people just like to try to invent something for the sake of inventing it, not on whether or not it fills some sort of real need.
either way, score one for the good-guys...
Perhaps its just a matter of maturity.
Oh... wait - we're talkin' 'bout that ion stuff...
And the monkey thing... that'd just be damn funny, in a sick, non-PETA sort of way.