This phenomenon is not isolated to IT by any means. Any sort of internal support structure in corporate America has the same complaint about a lack of disrespect (facilities, HR, etc.), but those departments don't idle on message boards all day and manage to create cute online subcultures about their plight. It's human nature to have unreasonable demands of people that we perceive to "serve" us, and to have unrealistic expectations about what we don't understand. You should probably continue to focus on relations with the user community from a PR perspective. Managing expectations will prove to be more useful than user education or wallowing in your self-pity.
I had been using IMAP on my account and about 1710 eastern time, the option disappeared and my client started telling me
Your IMAP server wishes to alert you to the following: IMAP is not available for your account. (Failure).
Are they already backing off? I was really enjoying it.
The blurb on this story seems to take a victorious approach to Microsoft losing profit/revenue. The OSS movement should only see a statement mentioning OSS as a victory if Microsoft mentions increasing the quality of its products as a reaction to OSS, not in matters of finance.
They sell solutions to libraries and corporations to meet censorship desires. What is ethically wrong in providing a solution to a censorship regime? We cannot lay our tenements of basic rights and freedoms on a foreign country.
I unconsciously inserted Obviously in its place, however I wouldn't be surprised if he meant "Obi-Wan is not a lawyer" or "Oprah's buttocks is not a lawyer".
I've been hard at work creating DVD-Cowboyneal. The only problem is it only writes to pork rinds and can only playback Vivid DVD's with the multiple angles feature.
My Win2k system has been rebooted once since February 1st, and currently has 34 days+ of uptime. What are you people doing to your systems that necessitates so much rebooting?
Of course our typical user computers don't have that kind of uptime, but they all run crapware sales and finance applications.
Why do people think they can link to things like Commodores, their Grandmother's computer, a Yugo, Paul Reubens himself, and think the webserving capability is going to hold up to hundreds of timewasting/.ers thinking "oh, this may actually be cool", despite the fact no one really honestly cares (ok I did enough to click on all the links, they didn't work, hence my bitterness).
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TWA 800 and PanAm 103 broke up mid-flight, physics dictates some pieces wouldn't absorb all the energy from the crash. The Concorde was still pretty annihilated, but was going at a low rate of relative speed at impact (it didn't hit the ground directly at 300 knots). Your examples suck. Remember ValuJet in FL?
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This phenomenon is not isolated to IT by any means. Any sort of internal support structure in corporate America has the same complaint about a lack of disrespect (facilities, HR, etc.), but those departments don't idle on message boards all day and manage to create cute online subcultures about their plight. It's human nature to have unreasonable demands of people that we perceive to "serve" us, and to have unrealistic expectations about what we don't understand. You should probably continue to focus on relations with the user community from a PR perspective. Managing expectations will prove to be more useful than user education or wallowing in your self-pity.
I had been using IMAP on my account and about 1710 eastern time, the option disappeared and my client started telling me Your IMAP server wishes to alert you to the following: IMAP is not available for your account. (Failure). Are they already backing off? I was really enjoying it.
I've had several distros hang on my older Proliants, try nousb at boot and see if that helps at all.
That got modded up to a 5?
The blurb on this story seems to take a victorious approach to Microsoft losing profit/revenue. The OSS movement should only see a statement mentioning OSS as a victory if Microsoft mentions increasing the quality of its products as a reaction to OSS, not in matters of finance.
They sell solutions to libraries and corporations to meet censorship desires. What is ethically wrong in providing a solution to a censorship regime? We cannot lay our tenements of basic rights and freedoms on a foreign country.
I unconsciously inserted Obviously in its place, however I wouldn't be surprised if he meant "Obi-Wan is not a lawyer" or "Oprah's buttocks is not a lawyer".
I've been hard at work creating DVD-Cowboyneal. The only problem is it only writes to pork rinds and can only playback Vivid DVD's with the multiple angles feature.
I'm willing to be a good chunk of /.ers are surfing from work where the company likely deployted WinNT/2K/XP systems.
I sure could go for 40 billion tacos about now.
Just think of all the lobster tail you could stuff with 40 billion tacos.
My Win2k system has been rebooted once since February 1st, and currently has 34 days+ of uptime. What are you people doing to your systems that necessitates so much rebooting?
Of course our typical user computers don't have that kind of uptime, but they all run crapware sales and finance applications.
Why do people think they can link to things like Commodores, their Grandmother's computer, a Yugo, Paul Reubens himself, and think the webserving capability is going to hold up to hundreds of timewasting /.ers thinking "oh, this may actually be cool", despite the fact no one really honestly cares (ok I did enough to click on all the links, they didn't work, hence my bitterness).
TWA 800 and PanAm 103 broke up mid-flight, physics dictates some pieces wouldn't absorb all the energy from the crash. The Concorde was still pretty annihilated, but was going at a low rate of relative speed at impact (it didn't hit the ground directly at 300 knots). Your examples suck. Remember ValuJet in FL?