I own a Pogo Altura. The CPU fan bearings froze up about a month after I bought it. I called Pogo and told them I needed a new CPU fan, and they overnighted me a new one, no questions asked. No asinine scripts to be read, just a real live American-English speaking and technically qualified person on the other end of the phone. I'd never buy a Dell considering the much higher quality of their competitors.
I just read IBM's response. I agree with their objections that some requests are overbroad, as even my name will end up on one of the lists requested by SCO. And probably most everybody on Slashdot as well.
Why? SCO claims Linux is a derivative work of UNIX, yet they've asked IBM to provide a list of names of all people who've ever had access to the source code of UNIX "and any derivative works".
What a wonderful coincidence, this event is what we can blame for all that XXX porn on our office PCs. "Hey boss, it was a solar flare put those on my hard drive, I didn't click on any of those websites, honest!"
Stupid? F***ed up? Depends on your point of view of economics. But successful? Absolutely. By now, I had supposed everybody would be familiar with the following....
"Around 1900, a salesman named King Camp Gillette dreamed up the idea of disposable razor blades. Before that time, razor blades were thicker and were simply sharpened when dull, but this was a time-consuming and imprecise (not to mention dangerous) process that no one enjoyed. Gillette's innovation was to make the blades thin enough and inexpensive enough that they could simply be thrown away when they dulled. At first, he couldn't sell the blades for as much money as it cost to make them, but then he had a wacky idea: he would give away the razor handles. People who got them perceived them as being valuable, but only when fitted with one of Gillette's blades. So there was a subtle yet forceful psychological pressure to maintain that value by continually buying the blades. After a few months of blade sales, the cost of the handle was recovered and Gillette began to make a profit. Within a decade, Gillette's company dominated the razor market and made its inventor extremely wealthy."
(from Joe Kissell's "Interesting Thing of the Day" website. http://itotd.com/index.alt?ArticleID=51)
I can still buy a radio that will fit in my shirt pocket, costs less than $10 USD, runs on self-contained power, and doesn't care about geopolitical boundaries. For a few dollars more, I can buy a model that lets me talk back.
Let me know when I can surf the web for ten bucks.
New guy - "While you were on vacation, I re-wrote the backup scripts for you."
/Me - "What was wrong with them?"
New guy - "They took too long. Now they only take a few minutes instead of hours. Oh, and they use a lot less tape, too. Haven't needed more than 1 tape in the last 10 days."
Does anyone else find it frightfully disturbing that 16% of CIO believed the SCO's claims to hold enough water that they've changed their implementation strategies?
No, I actually find it most enheartening. My personal experience has left me believing that a vast majority of CIOs don't possess a clue, so this new statistic of only 16% CIO cluelessness gives me great hope for the future of IT in America.
I just got on long term disability due to an auto accident. The policy is what is commonly called an "own occupation" policy, i.e. I have at least two years income before I either (a) get told to find a job I can do from a wheelchair, or (b) I get an extension, i.e. another year of disability pay and rehabilitation (not considered very likely for a computer geek).
The IT profession is a train wreck, my CEO is a clueless PHB, my supervisor is a workplace bully, my users are all morons. I have a golden opportunity in the next 24 months to learn another profession, just as long as I can do it from a wheelchair. What should I learn to do? What's a good job field for us mildly autistic ex-geeks on wheels?
I get most of my knowledge the time honored way, perched upon our porcelain reading chair. The one-hole library is stocked mostly with magazines, but occasionally a good paperback or the rare hardbound will find its way in. I am seldom interrupted, thanks to a cacophony of disgusting sound effects.
No Internet, but I find the whole experience thoroughly satisfying.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, don't they already have a genetically engineered governor?
Slashdot - News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters?
# sed -e s/Invent/Imitate/p
I own a Pogo Altura. The CPU fan bearings froze up about a month after I bought it. I called Pogo and told them I needed a new CPU fan, and they overnighted me a new one, no questions asked. No asinine scripts to be read, just a real live American-English speaking and technically qualified person on the other end of the phone. I'd never buy a Dell considering the much higher quality of their competitors.
Check the plates. Ten-to-one those are actually Oregonians. Trust me, I know.
I just read IBM's response. I agree with their objections that some requests are overbroad, as even my name will end up on one of the lists requested by SCO. And probably most everybody on Slashdot as well.
Why? SCO claims Linux is a derivative work of UNIX, yet they've asked IBM to provide a list of names of all people who've ever had access to the source code of UNIX "and any derivative works".
I nominate Six from the new animated series "Tripping the Rift". Premeires January, 2004 on the Sci-Fi channel.
SuSE is the company with no future.
What a wonderful coincidence, this event is what we can blame for all that XXX porn on our office PCs. "Hey boss, it was a solar flare put those on my hard drive, I didn't click on any of those websites, honest!"
Post a few articles on the net professing your undying loyalty to Usama Bin Laden. The FBI will back up everything for you.
What a stupid, f***ed up business model.
Stupid? F***ed up? Depends on your point of view of economics. But successful? Absolutely. By now, I had supposed everybody would be familiar with the following....
"Around 1900, a salesman named King Camp Gillette dreamed up the idea of disposable razor blades. Before that time, razor blades were thicker and were simply sharpened when dull, but this was a time-consuming and imprecise (not to mention dangerous) process that no one enjoyed. Gillette's innovation was to make the blades thin enough and inexpensive enough that they could simply be thrown away when they dulled. At first, he couldn't sell the blades for as much money as it cost to make them, but then he had a wacky idea: he would give away the razor handles. People who got them perceived them as being valuable, but only when fitted with one of Gillette's blades. So there was a subtle yet forceful psychological pressure to maintain that value by continually buying the blades. After a few months of blade sales, the cost of the handle was recovered and Gillette began to make a profit. Within a decade, Gillette's company dominated the razor market and made its inventor extremely wealthy."
(from Joe Kissell's "Interesting Thing of the Day" website. http://itotd.com/index.alt?ArticleID=51)
I can still buy a radio that will fit in my shirt pocket, costs less than $10 USD, runs on self-contained power, and doesn't care about geopolitical boundaries. For a few dollars more, I can buy a model that lets me talk back.
Let me know when I can surf the web for ten bucks.
New guy - "While you were on vacation, I re-wrote the backup scripts for you."
/Me - "What was wrong with them?"
New guy - "They took too long. Now they only take a few minutes instead of hours. Oh, and they use a lot less tape, too. Haven't needed more than 1 tape in the last 10 days."
/Me - [speechless]
CNN is reporting that researchers at Caltech and CERN successfully send 1.1 Terabytes of data at a rate of 5.44 Gbps.
"Update: Ten minutes after this story broke on the popular geek website 'Slashdot', the transfer rate dropped to 300 baud."
Your search - Domino security flaw - did not match any documents.
--Google News
Your search - Domino Administrator wanted - did not find any openings.
--Monster.com
Does anyone else find it frightfully disturbing that 16% of CIO believed the SCO's claims to hold enough water that they've changed their implementation strategies?
No, I actually find it most enheartening. My personal experience has left me believing that a vast majority of CIOs don't possess a clue, so this new statistic of only 16% CIO cluelessness gives me great hope for the future of IT in America.
Judging from the few movies I've seen this year, I'd say the directors had already ruined them. The brown spot is unnecessary.
What will happen when VeriSign doesn't do anything tomorrow?
SCO will pull their UNIX licenses.
I just got on long term disability due to an auto accident. The policy is what is commonly called an "own occupation" policy, i.e. I have at least two years income before I either (a) get told to find a job I can do from a wheelchair, or (b) I get an extension, i.e. another year of disability pay and rehabilitation (not considered very likely for a computer geek).
The IT profession is a train wreck, my CEO is a clueless PHB, my supervisor is a workplace bully, my users are all morons. I have a golden opportunity in the next 24 months to learn another profession, just as long as I can do it from a wheelchair. What should I learn to do? What's a good job field for us mildly autistic ex-geeks on wheels?
If you are a patient, you want your doctor going to the online databases and journals for information...
Not me. I want my doctor going to the Internet to post articles that your doctor will read.
I get most of my knowledge the time honored way, perched upon our porcelain reading chair. The one-hole library is stocked mostly with magazines, but occasionally a good paperback or the rare hardbound will find its way in. I am seldom interrupted, thanks to a cacophony of disgusting sound effects.
No Internet, but I find the whole experience thoroughly satisfying.
That would be @Stake, right?
I have a weather rock that utilizes similar technology. When the rock is wet, it is raining; when the rock is white, it is snowing, etc.
Sometimes I am amazed at the relentless march of progress. This is not one of those times.
A day is going to come when condom makes put RFID tags on the outside of them condoms.
And just how do you suppose they're going to handle the intermodulation interference from the odd working girl's RFID tag in her dentures?
For those who describe their systems as 'boxen', do you order multiple 'boxen' of corn flakes also?
No, but I was the happy recepient of some mighty fine blowjobben last weekend.