I worked for some dickhead that said "Gentoo is not a production ready operating system and never will be." This moron also insisted on standardizing on Red Hat. We ended up having more trouble with the Red Hat boxes than the small farm of Gentoo servers that I managed. (web/mail, 500,000 emails per day average)
I wouldn't blame the OS. It's just how to manage it, that's all.
if you can do the job of the people you're managing, you have an advantage. I cannot count time times where I've been in a job and the pinhead that was hired to be manager was just that - a manager... a manager that had absolutely no idea how to do the job I was doing. They were just a buzzword spouting talking head.
Maybe if SPEWS wasn't such a useless pile of cow shit, that would be important...
I've heard many good things about HE, and know for a fact that they boot spammers if they catch them in time. having worked for spammers in the past, I know that they move fast..:(
It's a great place to pick up chicks! Seriously. AOL used to be a good place, years ago, but now that any moron can get on AOL it's useless. But IRC? Works pretty damn good. Generally I've found that IRC chicks have a slightly higher level of Net knowledge to begin with. One of the main reasons is that there are still "local" channels, kind of like the old BBS days. Remember those days? Where everyone in teleconference was a local person dialing into a local number? Sometimes I really don't care to sit around and chat with people in foreign countries. I just want to meet people that are local to me. IRC allows this to happen.
They're required by law to have it. It's a building code thing. Every data center I've ever been in has one.
Also.. ""EPO, by the way, stands for Emergency Power Off and it's a national fire/electrical requirement for firefighters to be able to press these big red buttons near all exits that turn off all power in the entire data center."
Plain and simple. People notice a "historical post" and they want to have their LJ face right up there in it.
Total kissasses. I wonder how many of them are paid members vs free accounts. Remember, the overwhelming majority of Livejournal users are *NOT* paying customers...
First, I hate to tell you, but I really don't give a flying fuck what Tycho and the Penny Arcade people think about anything. I have never found Penny Arcade to be very funny at all, but for some reason they're made out to be gods around this place. Go figure.
Second, isn't this the exact reason that they're not selling the game for the time being? They know that they have capacity issues and they're well aware of the problems that are plaguing the game. At least they're taking steps to fix it instead of piling more & more users on already overloaded servers. Gotta give them props for that...
You know what happens? he'll LOSE in a "default judgement." Then they have free reign to attach his wages, levy (and drain) his entire bank account, and there's nothing that you can do to stop it. They won't even return calls to your lawyer at that point.
Not responding to a lawsuit is the WORST thing that you can ever do. It happened to me (see other posts, I couldn't afford a lawyer) and I got completely and totally fucked over in the end.
he *HAS* to respond to it or he will suffer dire consequences. Welcome to the lovely American legal system.
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I used to work for a company that was turning into a "targeted bulk email advertising" company. They took great care to ensure that every email sent out was fully CAN-SPAM compliant.
Nearly 9,000,000 emails per night on some nights. CAN-SPAM means just that - you can spam. The emails were fully compliant but were nothing more than advertising. 100% junk email. All of it.
I believe that we should stand up and demand that the CAN-SPAM act be repealed immediately.
The dude spoke in nothing but buzzwords. I kid you not. He'd say shit like "We're going to activate (name) in this capacity" instead of saying "Oi, Bob! Take some phone calls, eh!"
5 minutes with this turkey made my head want to explode. If I hear him say "We need to interface offline" ever again, I'm going on a tri-state killing spree.
Excessive use of buzzwords should be grounds for justifiable homocide.
*How did this happen? *Was it the registrar that was at fault? *Did they forget to renew the domain? *What is the registrar doing about the issue? (if anything)
Well, AC, you're completely wrong. It's not "filling out a web form once" - it has an entire blog system, photo uploads, messaging system... other stuff as well.
It's definately not "small potatoes on the web" - such a statement is pretty damn stupid.
* Pink slips were sent via FedEx, apparantly. Nice & cold. * Local restaurants are already suffering - PeopleSoft put a *lot* of money into the local economy.
Can't whine about it in your blog if you blog isn't there for you to whine about it in.
I can just imagine the huge pile of traffic that LiveJournal is going to get hit with once everything *does* come back up online. Hrm. Ss there any way that they can blame this on Microsoft?:)
Hrm. Dunno,actually. The company I used to work for hosted (incubated) a very active social networking site, hi5.com, which has several million users already. it's a Postgres site, pushes an absolute shitload of traffic, and is operating with WAAAAAAAAAY less than 100+ servers.
They seem to purposely make *the worst* sequels EVER ("Jaws" series not withstanding) and then when the piles of cow poop don't sell, they blame internet piracy.
Alanis Morrisette seemed to have the same idea - make a crappy album and then blame the internet when nobody bought it.
Disney loves to make sequels. they're still foaming at the mouth about the chance to make Toy Story III...
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I worked for some dickhead that said "Gentoo is not a production ready operating system and never will be." This moron also insisted on standardizing on Red Hat. We ended up having more trouble with the Red Hat boxes than the small farm of Gentoo servers that I managed. (web/mail, 500,000 emails per day average)
I wouldn't blame the OS. It's just how to manage it, that's all.
if you can do the job of the people you're managing, you have an advantage. I cannot count time times where I've been in a job and the pinhead that was hired to be manager was just that - a manager... a manager that had absolutely no idea how to do the job I was doing. They were just a buzzword spouting talking head.
Maybe if SPEWS wasn't such a useless pile of cow shit, that would be important...
:(
I've heard many good things about HE, and know for a fact that they boot spammers if they catch them in time.
having worked for spammers in the past, I know that they move fast..
.. and let us have boobies on TV, like quite a bit of the rest of the free world does.
Shut the fuck up, religious right. If you don't like what's on TV, quit watching it. *sigh*
It's a great place to pick up chicks! Seriously. AOL used to be a good place, years ago, but now that any moron can get on AOL it's useless. But IRC? Works pretty damn good. Generally I've found that IRC chicks have a slightly higher level of Net knowledge to begin with.
One of the main reasons is that there are still "local" channels, kind of like the old BBS days. Remember those days? Where everyone in teleconference was a local person dialing into a local number? Sometimes I really don't care to sit around and chat with people in foreign countries. I just want to meet people that are local to me.
IRC allows this to happen.
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml
It's offline right now, though. Big shock that is. heh.
They're required by law to have it. It's a building code thing. Every data center I've ever been in has one.
Also.. ""EPO, by the way, stands for Emergency Power Off and it's a national fire/electrical requirement for firefighters to be able to press these big red buttons near all exits that turn off all power in the entire data center."
Plain and simple. People notice a "historical post" and they want to have their LJ face right up there in it.
Total kissasses. I wonder how many of them are paid members vs free accounts.
Remember, the overwhelming majority of Livejournal users are *NOT* paying customers...
Account Types
What type of account do people have?
* Free Account: 5713743 (98.3%)
* Early Adopter: 14220 (0.2%)
* Paid Account: 94857 (1.6%)
* Permanent Account: 1632 (0.0%)
Actually, most of the accounts don't pay. They're just freeloading whiners.
This is a paste from the Livejournal stats:
* Free Account: 5713743 (98.3%)
* Early Adopter: 14220 (0.2%)
* Paid Account: 94857 (1.6%)
* Permanent Account: 1632 (0.0%)
When you're drunk off of your rocker, the mp3 player will just explode trying to figure out what your drunk ass is saying to it.
..that one song..geez..." *splat*
"Uhhh plesh play me theeee.. uhhhhhh... y'now..*hic*
First, I hate to tell you, but I really don't give a flying fuck what Tycho and the Penny Arcade people think about anything.
I have never found Penny Arcade to be very funny at all, but for some reason they're made out to be gods around this place. Go figure.
Second, isn't this the exact reason that they're not selling the game for the time being? They know that they have capacity issues and they're well aware of the problems that are plaguing the game. At least they're taking steps to fix it instead of piling more & more users on already overloaded servers.
Gotta give them props for that...
You know what happens? he'll LOSE in a "default judgement." Then they have free reign to attach his wages, levy (and drain) his entire bank account, and there's nothing that you can do to stop it. They won't even return calls to your lawyer at that point.
Not responding to a lawsuit is the WORST thing that you can ever do. It happened to me (see other posts, I couldn't afford a lawyer) and I got completely and totally fucked over in the end.
he *HAS* to respond to it or he will suffer dire consequences. Welcome to the lovely American legal system.
I used to work for a company that was turning into a "targeted bulk email advertising" company. They took great care to ensure that every email sent out was fully CAN-SPAM compliant.
Nearly 9,000,000 emails per night on some nights. CAN-SPAM means just that - you can spam. The emails were fully compliant but were nothing more than advertising. 100% junk email. All of it.
I believe that we should stand up and demand that the CAN-SPAM act be repealed immediately.
The dude spoke in nothing but buzzwords. I kid you not. He'd say shit like "We're going to activate (name) in this capacity" instead of saying "Oi, Bob! Take some phone calls, eh!"
5 minutes with this turkey made my head want to explode. If I hear him say "We need to interface offline" ever again, I'm going on a tri-state killing spree.
Excessive use of buzzwords should be grounds for justifiable homocide.
*How did this happen?
*Was it the registrar that was at fault?
*Did they forget to renew the domain?
*What is the registrar doing about the issue? (if anything)
I'm kind of curious about this..
No wonder you posted AC - what a stupid comment.
Well, moron, I'll explain:
PeopleSoft employees go to local restaurants. They put money into them. No employees to visit the restaurants? Less money going into them.
Not ridiculous at all - simple economics. If you destroy one of the largest employers in a town, the other businesses in town will suffer too.
You cannot deny that preferental hiring for minorities is a little odd sometimes... *shrug*
Well, AC, you're completely wrong. It's not "filling out a web form once" - it has an entire blog system, photo uploads, messaging system... other stuff as well.
It's definately not "small potatoes on the web" - such a statement is pretty damn stupid.
Couple of things I read recently:
* Pink slips were sent via FedEx, apparantly. Nice & cold.
* Local restaurants are already suffering - PeopleSoft put a *lot* of money into the local economy.
It's a fine line between "blog" and "journalism" these days, isn't it?
:)
The crap that winds up here is a prime example of why bloggers are *NOT* journalists. (yeah, slashdot isn't a "blog" exactly, but you get my point.)
http://www.cafepress.com/blogwhine
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Can't whine about it in your blog if you blog isn't there for you to whine about it in.
I can just imagine the huge pile of traffic that LiveJournal is going to get hit with once everything *does* come back up online.
Hrm. Ss there any way that they can blame this on Microsoft?
Hrm. Dunno,actually. The company I used to work for hosted (incubated) a very active social networking site, hi5.com, which has several million users already. it's a Postgres site, pushes an absolute shitload of traffic, and is operating with WAAAAAAAAAY less than 100+ servers.
I guess it's just how you set it all up. *shrug*
That wasn't "coloserve" - was it? I'm looking for colo space in SF. heh.
Titan sounds like Ashlee Simpson?
Time to bomb it!
They seem to purposely make *the worst* sequels EVER ("Jaws" series not withstanding) and then when the piles of cow poop don't sell, they blame internet piracy.
Alanis Morrisette seemed to have the same idea - make a crappy album and then blame the internet when nobody bought it.
Disney loves to make sequels. they're still foaming at the mouth about the chance to make Toy Story III...