Nope. It's still with us. I've had to reboot three times in the past two days. Once for networking wierdness (reboot cured it), once for software installation (obligatory), and once because I had an unkillable task. Windows 2000, all patches/service packs.
Our "windows sysadmin" here at the office wants to reboot machines all the time. I have to stop him from rebooting the central server several times a day. "Greg, that server is in production...we can't reboot it". The culture of rebooting is still with the Windows world, in a big way. Scheduling your reboots is a foriegn concept.
Ah, yes...I remember the first Win nuke. Great fun. I joined #mirc, #bearcave, #deaf, #hack, #mensa, and every other irritating channel I could think of, and hit every single person there. It was a dream, seeing all the (ping timeout) messages. And the best part was, real irc users weren't affected...it was only the windows lusers who got knocked off. And for some reason, the windows lusers were always the most inane, chain-letter-passing, LOL-ing, trout-slapping fucktard morons who ever connected a client to an irc network. It made irc tolerable, for a bit.
When have average people ever had a hand in wealth creation? They're not interested in wealth creation...they're freaking average people! What kind of socialist mumbo-jumbo is this? This kind of muddled thinking belongs in a 300-hits-a-day web log...not slashdot.
I've just come from China, where they do have this sort of "job creating by not using computers". Yup, people have jobs all right. Jobs taking plastic parts out of injection molding machines. Jobs assembling plastic parts together. Jobs welding with no eye protection. Thanks, but no thanks...I'll take mechanization and innovation any day.
Please use && instead of ; when sequencing commands. If the first command fails, the second does not execute. We had huge problems with this linux cluebie doing this repeatedly at my last job.
Err...no, it's a case of the cattle rustlers coming to town and burning the townsfolk out. There's no justice that's implicit in vigilantism, only the tyranny of gangster/mafia behavior.
Why do I suspect a secret desire on the part of the parent poster to burn down churches?
As soon as Microsoft's Ministry of Information Retrieval gets through with Google, Google will be pleading for mercy like the character at the end of the story.
93/HKS/608, you are charged with the following: Passing confidential documents to unauthorized personnel - viz IR dossier/Gillian Layton. Destroying Government property - viz an indeterminate number of personnel carriers. Taking possession under false pretences of said personnel carriers. Forging the signature of the Head of Records, Third Department. Attempting to misdirect Ministry funds, in the form of a cheque to A. Buttle, through unauthorized channels. Tampering with Central Services supply ducts. Employing unqualified suspected persons for this purpose. Attempting to conceal a fugitive from justice. Obstructing the forces of law and order in the exercise of their duty. Giving aid and comfort to the enemies of society. Bringing into disrepute the good name of the Government, and the standing within the community of the Department of Information Retrieval. Attempting to disrupt the Ministry of Information Retrieval's internal communicating systems. Wasting Ministry time and paper.
Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long, you could jeopardize your credit rating.
Yeah, and what about when you move to a new computer? I don't know about you, but I have at least two keyboards, home and work, and I move around quite a bit at work as well. And then, there's the laptop for trips, as well as all sorts of public terminals. I find that having a great customized keyboard is great until you move to another PC and can't use it.
It's not "copycon". It's "copy con". It's not a tool at all, it's a system function. cat > file is not a tool. vi is a tool. Not knowing the difference between a tool and a system function is a clear indication of a fuckwit cluebie. "Copycon" as you put it, was useful for far more than a last-ditch "tool". I can see how you wouldn't realize this, though.
Being skilful at HTML is like being skilful at solitaire. It's a skill that anyone can master easily if they choose to waste time on it, and bragging about it is rather peculiar.
I'm not stupid. I'm more intelligent than you. I simply enjoy pointing it out from time to time, and I really don't care if you take offense or not. I especially enjoy putting fuckwit cluebies in their place. HTML ninja...my ass.
Let's grow up a tad? Which one of us called himself an "HTML ninja"?
I didn't see a refutation of any of my points...what's right about pico? oh, no, I'm on your 'enemies' list now as well...dreadful. You've done it to me now.
You know, of course, that pico is pine's message composition editor? By all rights it shouldn't be used outside of pine.
Copy con wasn't a text editor, any more than cat > file is a text editor. Look at your post, you said 'copycon'. Perhaps you were thinking of EDLIN.EXE and confused the two?
It wraps lines? It lacks features? Why not tell me what's RIGHT about pico instead? The telltale sign of a cluebie..."what's wrong with pico"? I bet you don't even use pine. What's copycon? I get "Bad command or file name" if I type that into my copy of DOS 5.0.
C'mon kiddo, it's past your bedtime. Put away the web-ninja costume and put on your spiderman pajamas.
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Our "windows sysadmin" here at the office wants to reboot machines all the time. I have to stop him from rebooting the central server several times a day. "Greg, that server is in production...we can't reboot it". The culture of rebooting is still with the Windows world, in a big way. Scheduling your reboots is a foriegn concept.
Ah, yes...I remember the first Win nuke. Great fun. I joined #mirc, #bearcave, #deaf, #hack, #mensa, and every other irritating channel I could think of, and hit every single person there. It was a dream, seeing all the (ping timeout) messages. And the best part was, real irc users weren't affected...it was only the windows lusers who got knocked off. And for some reason, the windows lusers were always the most inane, chain-letter-passing, LOL-ing, trout-slapping fucktard morons who ever connected a client to an irc network. It made irc tolerable, for a bit.
Aren't "pranks" supposed to be "funny"?
So, you went to another country and leeched off their system? I bet the taxpayers of Taiwan thank you for stealing care meant for their citizens.
I've just come from China, where they do have this sort of "job creating by not using computers". Yup, people have jobs all right. Jobs taking plastic parts out of injection molding machines. Jobs assembling plastic parts together. Jobs welding with no eye protection. Thanks, but no thanks...I'll take mechanization and innovation any day.
Please use && instead of ; when sequencing commands. If the first command fails, the second does not execute. We had huge problems with this linux cluebie doing this repeatedly at my last job.
I'd be careful with quotes in the New York Times, if I were you...
That's *SO* gay. Please, stop using 'bloody'. It makes you look like an idiot. Do you say 'lorry', 'lift', and 'gob', too?
So, do you pay the cost of receiving these messages?
Bloody? Please don't tell me you're an American who uses British slang...
Oh, that's a relief. It's not a hate crime, then. Burn away! They disagree with your views, after all.
You want to burn down churches? You're aware that's a hate crime, right? What are you, in the KKK or Black Panthers or something?
Heck, I get all of my research from 40-year-old movie scripts!
Why do I suspect a secret desire on the part of the parent poster to burn down churches?
How long have you been saving that one?
Assuming everyone knows everything you do is a sure sign of the foolish man.
As soon as Microsoft's Ministry of Information Retrieval gets through with Google, Google will be pleading for mercy like the character at the end of the story.
Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long, you could jeopardize your credit rating.
Yeah, and what about when you move to a new computer? I don't know about you, but I have at least two keyboards, home and work, and I move around quite a bit at work as well. And then, there's the laptop for trips, as well as all sorts of public terminals. I find that having a great customized keyboard is great until you move to another PC and can't use it.
Being skilful at HTML is like being skilful at solitaire. It's a skill that anyone can master easily if they choose to waste time on it, and bragging about it is rather peculiar.
I'm not stupid. I'm more intelligent than you. I simply enjoy pointing it out from time to time, and I really don't care if you take offense or not. I especially enjoy putting fuckwit cluebies in their place. HTML ninja...my ass.
I didn't see a refutation of any of my points...what's right about pico? oh, no, I'm on your 'enemies' list now as well...dreadful. You've done it to me now.
You know, of course, that pico is pine's message composition editor? By all rights it shouldn't be used outside of pine.
Copy con wasn't a text editor, any more than cat > file is a text editor. Look at your post, you said 'copycon'. Perhaps you were thinking of EDLIN.EXE and confused the two?
C'mon kiddo, it's past your bedtime. Put away the web-ninja costume and put on your spiderman pajamas.
HAHAHAHA
And he thinks he's a bad-ass hardcore HTML ninja...
Boy, talk about your obscure references...
I've noticed lately that religious intolerance has made a real comeback, especially among Leftists. What happened to disagreement with tolerance?