Wow, like, finally.:-) I couldn't hit Slashdot from home, and then I couldn't hit Slashdot from work. I figured that maybe VA Linux was taking Slashdot down with it. Speaking of which, everyone click a few banners for Rob, please... VA Linux won't be around to pay for bandwidth in a few weeks.
In one of the Red Hat Database stories recently, someone was wondering (and quite honestly, I wonder too) exactly how Slashdot is able to work at all, considering that it runs on MySQL (known for easily dying under load) and Apache 1.* (known for fork()ing like a motherforker). After a while I started to wonder if we weren't being proved right... oh well.
So the Ciscos died? Heh. And your Cisco Certified Professional didn't know what to do? Well, that's really surprising. No, I really mean it. After all, those people have to pass like three tests in order to gain their prestigious title. I remember how stressed out my cat, Kyoto, was when she became Cisco Certified.
Incidentally, is the impending death of VA Linux cutting into your support costs? Lemme guess try and reconstruct this...
Rob: Wow, so you're, like, a chick. Wow.
CiscoChick: Yeah, can you guys show me where the equipment room is?
Rob: It's over this way... say, how much is this dealie gonna cost us?
CiscoChick: Well, support costs start at $200 per hour, and the hardware that needs to be replaced will blah blah blah...
Rob: Whoa, wait a sec! That's some real money you're talking about there. Don't you guys believe in Open Source?
Jeff: Yeah... [leering closer]... isn't there... some other way... we can pay you back?
CiscoChick: Excuse me?
Rob:Look, what my colleague is trying to say is that our master, VA Itsux, is going out of business...
Jeff:...and so we're a little low on funds...
Rob:...and so we may not be able to compensate you in the standard, capitalist Microsoft fashion of "money." However...
Jeff:...we have a plan! Oh, yes, master, a plan! Hee hee hee hee...
Rob:We'll pay you in oral sex. With tongues flapping, we will procede to clean your most private flesh with our --
CiscoChick: Oh, my God. I'm leaving.
Rob: No, wait! Isn't there anything we can do? I could write you some Perl scripts --
CiscoChick: Perl? What are you, an IST major?
Rob: -- or give you a whole case of Debian CDs or --
CiscoChick: Look, Cisco is a Real Company(tm) that makes Real Money(tm). We have no use for your amateurish --
Jeff: Argh!
Rob: You have defiled our holy sanctuary with evil, godless Truth! You must be punished!
Jeff: Yes, she must be punished!
Rob: We'll just tie you up with this Cat5, then...
Jeff: Where are my needle-nose pliers?
CiscoChick:I quit.
Is it just me, or does Chiu sound like he wrote that stuff about the Chinese government with Major "Backbreaker of Pain and Doom" Zheng holding a gun to his head? Yeah, I'd say great things about my government too, if I knew that dissenters have the habit of becoming T-72 roadkill. It's really frightening to think that there are people like Alex in the world, but if he likes seeing his country degraded so, more power to the loony asshole.
Um, I think everyone else has already said this, but please refrain from ruining a perfectly valid (albeit offtopic) thread when you so obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Don't worry, you'll graduate one day and get a job and hopefully some experience. Until then please don't post, thanks!:-(
Um, okay. So are you also needlessly paranoid of Sony (gaming consoles, appliances, computers), Pioneer (animation, consumer electronics), Yahama (musical instruments, motorcycles, jet skis), and Mitsubishi (cars, fighter planes)? Big companies tend to make a lot of stuff. Stop being so paranoid. Sadly, you'll get a +3 for your luserish anti-Microsoft post. I'll bet your karma is higher than your IQ by now... but then again, so is evil_spork's.
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Sarcasta: Your randomest source for unprovoked flames.:-) Sorry, Aunt Flo is visiting. (Ew.)
Makes sense -- why would China block Commu-linux propaganda? I fact I believe that RMS specifically requested that he be able to read Slashdot when he visted home last year. Yep, RMS is a spy. It's a good thing he works at MIT, where there is no useful technology or information to be stolen. Unforutnately, his works of sabatoge (GNU EMACS, GCC, et cetera) have set US industry back about ten years in lost productivity and software quality. </kidding>
Sergeant Cho: < I don't understand it, men. It's just an innocent coffee house, but something about this bothers me... >
Captain Zhao: < Sir, is it perhaps the aroma of freshly-brewed coffee? >
Sergeant Cho:< Wait a second... that isn't coffee! That's the smell of freedom! >
Captain Zhao:< You hear him, men! Get the cattle prods! Go! Go! Go! >
Yes, but a gymnast's skills are as useless as a gamer's, unless you want to work in the circus. I'd actually be pretty ashamed if I'd spent my entire life training to jump on bars and ropes like a monkey.
As a designer, my skills are in demand by all variety of corporations, who want to present a professional image for their products and services, so that they can make money and establish a brand name so that their future success is continued. These companies' customers thus indirectly make use of my skills, as well. But a professional gymnast's existence is simple: make money by charging others to watch you jump on ropes and bars. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you accept that you're just a breast-less Bobo the Clown.
As long as you understand that all professional sports are three-ring circuses -- making money by showcasing the genetically influenced physical skills of social outcasts -- you'll be fine.
I find the whole concept of "championship"-level gaming to be highly amusing, but no more so than other sports. Olympians (for instance) most likely scoff at the idea of competing to be the best at Quake or Diablo, but really it's no more silly than gymnastics, basketball, or any other traditional sport. Both involve "skills" that are of no use in the real world ("athletics" isn't exactly something to put on your resume, unless you're applying to be a construction worker) and are only of interest to the practitioner and his fans. I feel that if respecting a man because he's spent his life becoming an expert at throwing a ball or skiing down a mountain is considered normal, why not respect a "man" for being able to conquer others in a computer-simulated deathmatch? Both arenas produce similarly pointless activity.
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In one of the Red Hat Database stories recently, someone was wondering (and quite honestly, I wonder too) exactly how Slashdot is able to work at all, considering that it runs on MySQL (known for easily dying under load) and Apache 1.* (known for fork()ing like a motherforker). After a while I started to wonder if we weren't being proved right... oh well.
So the Ciscos died? Heh. And your Cisco Certified Professional didn't know what to do? Well, that's really surprising. No, I really mean it. After all, those people have to pass like three tests in order to gain their prestigious title. I remember how stressed out my cat, Kyoto, was when she became Cisco Certified.
Incidentally, is the impending death of VA Linux cutting into your support costs? Lemme guess try and reconstruct this...
Cue "Wayne's World" dream sequence
Is that accurate, Rob?Diddlidoodlydo! Diddlidoodlydo! Diddlidoodlydo...
Kathleen
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Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Kathleen
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Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Kathleen
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Graphic designer and Mac lover.
(The inspiration for that hit me while in a meeting. I probably shouldn't have blurted it out with my manager sitting next to me.)
Kathleen
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Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Um, okay. So are you also needlessly paranoid of Sony (gaming consoles, appliances, computers), Pioneer (animation, consumer electronics), Yahama (musical instruments, motorcycles, jet skis), and Mitsubishi (cars, fighter planes)? Big companies tend to make a lot of stuff. Stop being so paranoid. Sadly, you'll get a +3 for your luserish anti-Microsoft post. I'll bet your karma is higher than your IQ by now... but then again, so is evil_spork's.
</flame>
Sarcasta: Your randomest source for unprovoked flames. :-) Sorry, Aunt Flo is visiting. (Ew.)
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Makes sense -- why would China block Commu-linux propaganda? I fact I believe that RMS specifically requested that he be able to read Slashdot when he visted home last year. Yep, RMS is a spy. It's a good thing he works at MIT, where there is no useful technology or information to be stolen. Unforutnately, his works of sabatoge (GNU EMACS, GCC, et cetera) have set US industry back about ten years in lost productivity and software quality.
</kidding>
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Captain Zhao: < Sir, is it perhaps the aroma of freshly-brewed coffee? >
Sergeant Cho:< Wait a second... that isn't coffee! That's the smell of freedom! >
Captain Zhao:< You hear him, men! Get the cattle prods! Go! Go! Go! >
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.
As a designer, my skills are in demand by all variety of corporations, who want to present a professional image for their products and services, so that they can make money and establish a brand name so that their future success is continued. These companies' customers thus indirectly make use of my skills, as well. But a professional gymnast's existence is simple: make money by charging others to watch you jump on ropes and bars. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you accept that you're just a breast-less Bobo the Clown.
As long as you understand that all professional sports are three-ring circuses -- making money by showcasing the genetically influenced physical skills of social outcasts -- you'll be fine.
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.
Kathleen
--
Graphic designer and Mac lover.