4 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning. 5 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning. 6 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning. 7 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning. . . .
I can confirm that the Wi-Fi problems have been fixed. Yesterday I could barely surf for pr0n in the bar on the Restaurant level. Goatse would take at least 1 minute to load, fer Chrissakes.
Today I can offend in seconds. Hats off to the Oreilly techs for their quick work.
If I down one more pint, I'll be educating the masses with the help of the autopr0n guy...
That verbage is originally from Sun, not Microsoft. They had to include it in the license if they wanted to distribute a JVM. It's a leftover from so much Sun hardware being used in critical situations. I believe that they have removed that requirement from all current implementations (at least I couldn't find it in the current license.
taken from the Peacefire webpage, which I have been a member of for four years now
I consider your unsolicited promotion of Peacefire to be spam. And, of course, the fact that you have a Slashdot handle of "SexyTr0llGal" means that you are forging your real identity in order to avoid recorse.
I'll take my $500 in a shoebox full of unmarked $20 bills, thank you.;^)
If I'm going to base my security procedures on the movie "Office Space" then I might as well start assuming that the hot chick from TGI Fridays is going to start wanting me after I hit on her at lunch.
Did you actually watch that crap? "Yeah, I hacked into the mainframe cobol application with my macintosh and rounded up some numbers that automatically transferred themselves into a new account."
Anyone here ever work at a major financial institution? Do you realize the amount of auditing that comes into place when financial products get placed into production? I had three layers of management crap to go through just to change minor JCL code on "maintenance jobs".
Banks (good banks, anyway) have your money for one reason. Accountability. If they didn't, you'd be hiding your money back underneath the mattress. I'm not saying that it is perfect, but it's a far cry from watching employees come and go in what should be a secure data center.
Oh well... I guess an old fart can Dream.
Does anyone happen to have Jennifer Anniston's home phone number?
If the thing were only available on the PC platform...
I seriously don't understand the whole Rockstar/Sony rights-marketing-distribution-restriction thing. I'd have bought this game the second that it was available for my computer.
Dammed if I'm going to shell out over $200 US dollars on hardwired-console-crap for the 'privilege' to play one game.
Do I spend that much on my PC+graphics card? Yes. Why? Oh, I dunno. Other games not available for the PS/2, AutoCad work, tinkering with alternative operating systems, you name it.
It all comes down to flexibility.
Bah! Enough of you kids and your fancy new consoles. I'm going back to 1978 and kicking my older brother's ass at old-style-console "Coleco" hockey!
Try getting support for Computer Associates ArcServe. Every time I call in I end up talking to 'Apu' from "The Simpsons".
(With much respect to Dennis Miller...)
Now I don't want to get off on a rant here, but how in the hell can you get complex technical support from somebody that has a problem pronouncing "cheeseburger" in your native language? "Sorry there, Abdul, but I'd like to take a rain-check on the 'pepzi' and have a functional RMA, babe." I don't consider myself to be a racist, but a language barrier is the last fucking thing I want in my way at 5pm on a Friday when I'm just trying to figure out if some vendor's.dll is kosher or not.
Is there some kind of conspiracy going on here that I wasn't previously made aware of? Back in the Wang-Chung 1980's (heavy emphasis on the Wang, there) you could at least be guaranteed to be lied to by a genuine American asshole. Nowadays, I have to start some kind of Elmo-type phonetic communication between myself and said support person:
Me: "I'm getting an Win2k EventID 9 SCSI timeout error" Abdul: "You are getting scuzzy on me. Tonight at 9 will not work out, you minx. Come again!" Me: "What? Hello? I think my tape drive is bad, I keep getting timeout errors." Abdul: "Next time you go out, don't use the 8-track. CD-ROM is the best medium for chasing the 'Manju Devi'"
Can we please have a general consensus on what 24x7 tech support really means? From what it looks like right now in today's economy, I could tell my girlfriend(s) that they have 24x7 coverage in regards to contacting me and then handing out my Mom's home phone number. Yes, you will be getting a timely response, but will that be the response that you wished for?
Considering competent technical support in these dire financial times, I shall quote John Belushi from the major motion picture "Animal House" where he states:
"My advice to you would be to start drinking, heavily..."
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Homer J. Simpson really needs to get his act together over there.
You misspelled "Cold Fusion".
got to make one call...
'nuff said.
Bah!
Here is the rest of the list:
4 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning.
5 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning.
6 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning.
7 - A way overpriced institution of higher learning.
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Can somebody pick me up a TiVo when the looting begins? I'll pay for shipping.
I can confirm that the Wi-Fi problems have been fixed. Yesterday I could barely surf for pr0n in the bar on the Restaurant level. Goatse would take at least 1 minute to load, fer Chrissakes.
Today I can offend in seconds. Hats off to the Oreilly techs for their quick work.
If I down one more pint, I'll be educating the masses with the help of the autopr0n guy...
Next you will be telling me there is no Santa Claus.
Wow. I read that as "Next you will be telling me there is no Santa Cruz"
Aieeeee! Another SCO reference!
...nobody uses usenet...
;^)
Right. Alt.binaries.* traffic is at an all time low?
That verbage is originally from Sun, not Microsoft. They had to include it in the license if they wanted to distribute a JVM. It's a leftover from so much Sun hardware being used in critical situations. I believe that they have removed that requirement from all current implementations (at least I couldn't find it in the current license.
I was always fond of being called, "Captain Duct Tape".
"Oh my god, the fileserver is offline, we need Captain DuctTape!".
It does have a nice ring to it.....
This is soooooo yesterday. Why are they trying to Duplicate effort?
taken from the Peacefire webpage, which I have been a member of for four years now
I consider your unsolicited promotion of Peacefire to be spam. And, of course, the fact that you have a Slashdot handle of "SexyTr0llGal" means that you are forging your real identity in order to avoid recorse.
I'll take my $500 in a shoebox full of unmarked $20 bills, thank you.
... is working in the SCOsource division of SCO.
"Hmmm. I believe we'll be suing them for (Long pause)
1 BILLION DOLLARS!"
Found on Google:
"Don't Talk About Fight Club"
If I'm going to base my security procedures on the movie "Office Space" then I might as well start assuming that the hot chick from TGI Fridays is going to start wanting me after I hit on her at lunch.
Did you actually watch that crap? "Yeah, I hacked into the mainframe cobol application with my macintosh and rounded up some numbers that automatically transferred themselves into a new account."
Anyone here ever work at a major financial institution? Do you realize the amount of auditing that comes into place when financial products get placed into production? I had three layers of management crap to go through just to change minor JCL code on "maintenance jobs".
Banks (good banks, anyway) have your money for one reason. Accountability. If they didn't, you'd be hiding your money back underneath the mattress. I'm not saying that it is perfect, but it's a far cry from watching employees come and go in what should be a secure data center.
Oh well... I guess an old fart can Dream.
Does anyone happen to have Jennifer Anniston's home phone number?
If the thing were only available on the PC platform...
I seriously don't understand the whole Rockstar/Sony rights-marketing-distribution-restriction thing. I'd have bought this game the second that it was available for my computer.
Dammed if I'm going to shell out over $200 US dollars on hardwired-console-crap for the 'privilege' to play one game.
Do I spend that much on my PC+graphics card? Yes. Why? Oh, I dunno. Other games not available for the PS/2, AutoCad work, tinkering with alternative operating systems, you name it.
It all comes down to flexibility.
Bah! Enough of you kids and your fancy new consoles. I'm going back to 1978 and kicking my older brother's ass at old-style-console "Coleco" hockey!
Try getting support for Computer Associates ArcServe. Every time I call in I end up talking to 'Apu' from "The Simpsons".
.dll is kosher or not.
(With much respect to Dennis Miller...)
Now I don't want to get off on a rant here, but how in the hell can you get complex technical support from somebody that has a problem pronouncing "cheeseburger" in your native language? "Sorry there, Abdul, but I'd like to take a rain-check on the 'pepzi' and have a functional RMA, babe." I don't consider myself to be a racist, but a language barrier is the last fucking thing I want in my way at 5pm on a Friday when I'm just trying to figure out if some vendor's
Is there some kind of conspiracy going on here that I wasn't previously made aware of? Back in the Wang-Chung 1980's (heavy emphasis on the Wang, there) you could at least be guaranteed to be lied to by a genuine American asshole. Nowadays, I have to start some kind of Elmo-type phonetic communication between myself and said support person:
Me: "I'm getting an Win2k EventID 9 SCSI timeout error"
Abdul: "You are getting scuzzy on me. Tonight at 9 will not work out, you minx. Come again!"
Me: "What? Hello? I think my tape drive is bad, I keep getting timeout errors."
Abdul: "Next time you go out, don't use the 8-track. CD-ROM is the best medium for chasing the 'Manju Devi'"
Can we please have a general consensus on what 24x7 tech support really means? From what it looks like right now in today's economy, I could tell my girlfriend(s) that they have 24x7 coverage in regards to contacting me and then handing out my Mom's home phone number. Yes, you will be getting a timely response, but will that be the response that you wished for?
Considering competent technical support in these dire financial times, I shall quote John Belushi from the major motion picture "Animal House" where he states:
"My advice to you would be to start drinking, heavily..."
Yeah, but just wait. In 6 months, Kanada will issue the "collectors edition" with some bonus footage of melting CPUs.
Also included will be an exclusive behind the scenes look at him begging to the department budget coordinator to buy additional memory.
You will also receive pewter slide rules that you can use as book-ends or some such nonsence.
Just remember, this dude gets paid to "geek out" at this level. What a dream job...
in one case the response was downright rude (basically a variation on RTFM)
I didn't know that Richard Stallman had written a search engine? Damn, has emacs gotten that bloated?
Damn! I forgot the Cowboy Neal Adds Karma Rule(tm) when I posted this same thingbefore...
O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?
Well, Duh. The obvious reason is because somebody at OSDN tripped over the power cord and they are running at half-speed on batteries.
Either that, or it's that pesky MySQL acting up again...
Nigerian petroleum bonus? Why does that sound so familiar to me?
These guyswere given a class A space but were nice enough to give some back.
Spread the word. MIT is full of greedy space-hoarding geeks!