give them a piece of paper with the word "Slashdot" on it. If they pull out a pen and scribble "first post" at the bottom of the page, don't hire them.
The sysadmin here rips DVDs all day. He's useless, but he was in the Marines with the management or some such nonsense. The users here know who's ass to kiss. Desktop support, boyeeee!!
"Another change seeks to curb about 90 percent of Windows XP piracy. Microsoft introduced Product Activation with the operating system, which uses a numeric key to lock the software to the hardware. But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying. People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site."
This means that the CD you have in your cube with XP written on it with a Sharpie will not take the service pack.
Other than the security issues this service pack claims to rectify, seems like issues that the average slashdot reader can solve his/herself. I mean, do we really need help making Netscape the default rather than I.E.?
Alot of folks fell for that $300 rebate for signing on with CompuServe. This was (and still is)offered with new computers at Circuit City and the like. I'm guessing that a good portion of CompuServe's costumers are locked into a 3 year contract. After the 2nd or 3rd month, they were probably kicking themselves.
The FBI has found the Magic Lantern. High level meetings are taking place, in which it will be decided who gets to rub the lamp and who exactly will get the three wishes.
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And my right hand especially thanks you.
what, a checkbook?
and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children.
Sounds like Florida!
Trial was great! Would preside over again! A++++!!
I guess we know who run Bartertown.
You can pretend you already have it, but the only movie you can watch is My Dinner With Andre.
You aren't gonna ask for a game of globalthermonuclear war next are you, Joshua?
give them a piece of paper with the word "Slashdot" on it. If they pull out a pen and scribble "first post" at the bottom of the page, don't hire them.
Good thing it works without a surface. At that price, I couldn't afford a desk to set it on.
if this was written in 1984 and the game consists of a big white circle being eaten by a big green circle, then I've been ripped off.
The sysadmin here rips DVDs all day. He's useless, but he was in the Marines with the management or some such nonsense. The users here know who's ass to kiss. Desktop support, boyeeee!!
The article mentions that:
"Another change seeks to curb about 90 percent of Windows XP piracy. Microsoft introduced Product Activation with the operating system, which uses a numeric key to lock the software to the hardware. But code stolen from a large Microsoft customer allowed rampant illegal Windows XP copying. People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site."
This means that the CD you have in your cube with XP written on it with a Sharpie will not take the service pack.
Other than the security issues this service pack claims to rectify, seems like issues that the average slashdot reader can solve his/herself. I mean, do we really need help making Netscape the default rather than I.E.?
Alot of folks fell for that $300 rebate for signing on with CompuServe. This was (and still is)offered with new computers at Circuit City and the like. I'm guessing that a good portion of CompuServe's costumers are locked into a 3 year contract. After the 2nd or 3rd month, they were probably kicking themselves.
Have your page linked on slashdot! Page gets slashdotted, problem solved.
There's a big yellow thing in the sky. It's called the sun. Check it out sometime!
The FBI has found the Magic Lantern. High level meetings are taking place, in which it will be decided who gets to rub the lamp and who exactly will get the three wishes.
Has he gotten spammed yet?
Nothing worse than when non-geeks buy geeks presents.
"Gee thanks! A new mouse! ummmm yeah it's great...it's got a ball on the bottom. How quaint."
This is the game you feel like telling the /.
community is worth buying a copy of Win98 for.
Yep. Kinda the same way I "bought" my copy of Win2K. ;-)
I read the title and thought "finally! a deoderant for people who sit in cubicles for 14 hours straight coding!"
Glad to see you learned so much in high scholl :P
will this improve the plot?
Could we please get rid of synchronized swimming? Or at least combine the two?