...It's a good point, *IF* they have a phone line.
Dunno about the 'States but in the UK and Canada you can't get a phone line without laying down a hefty deposit, in cases where the line has been disconnected for previous non-payment, or subscriber doesn't have permanent residency in the country.
...Fer fucks sake, just don't teach it goddamn "Stairway to Heaven"... anyone who's spent 10 minutes in a any guitar store on a busy street knows what I'm talking about.
Really, this cementhead demeans the both of you with answers like "get a book". He demeans you by not trying to understand your point of view has value and he demeans himself by not understanding the job of sysadmin himself.
If you do buckle under and play it his way I can guarantee you within a year of moving to your new office he will be blaming you for "not reading the book" for every extra minute you spend doing sysadmin work-- Likewise, you'll be blaming him for pushing you away from programming your programming career by insisting you "get the job done right first" with your admin duties.
Take a stand if you wish, but most small businessmen operate on the principle "No-one is irreplacable" and that means you too. You'd be alot happier working for someone who understands different IT roles and understands what your personal carreer goals are.
the average administrator is more likely to go "OOOOO CONVENIENT" and enable it without thinking of the potential security risks
I totally get what you mean, but have you seen how much work it takes to get some of the typical stuff like IIS6 or Terminal Services up and going on Win2003 Server? Compared to Win2000, not that convenient after all.
I think all the new wizards for 2003 are there to discourage that "hm, what's this do?" syndrome.
Ok, when he says "jaw-droppingly bad", does he mean "Ishtar" bad or does he mean "Howard the Duck" bad?
Or is this just an ironic piece of writing done in the same vein as Douglas Adams? -- Ok, probably not, but this kind of review makes me more ready to be suprised...
Let's face it the quality of the movie really has nothing to do with anything but how soon it gets released on DVD to recoup the production costs:
Good to Bad: Christmas '05
Bad to Worse: End of Summer/Back to school sales
Train-wreck: July 4th weekend free-with-the-purchase-of-a-happy-meal.
Mandrake isn't a duck, it's the name of a magician. If you'd ever had a glance at their website you'd notice the classic magician's tophat and wand show up regularly in their artwork.
Do all telephone companies try to incorporate "Bell" in their name?
What species of penguin is Suse, Gentoo and Slackware, and do any of these penguins wear a Red Hat?;-P
Sure I wanted a PSP, but there was so much hype about the waiting lists and how hard it was going to be to get one leading up to March 24th that I didn't bother looking because I figured I wasn't going to get one if I did.
On the bright side, lower than expected sales usually leads to price cuts so I'm glad the big hype machine failed.
...when you're in a basement, *IF* there's any flooding, it's going to soak all your wiring and whatever else you stash under the floor.
What about installing a hanging ceiling and running the wires overhead?... You could run the wires inside PVC tubing (or whatever you prefer) that's strapped to the beams of your basement ceiling, then hang the ceiling tiles afterwards, at your leisure.
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I can't use wearable computers since my tie keeps getting caught in the CPU fan.
NYT is rewarding the free software community as both a signal "we reward our advertisers" and an inducement for the community to advertise further
Well, you're not wrong, BUT, an article following a 2-page add that comes about by a community pulling resources together is also a comment regarding a grassroots movement going mainstream.
He has said that current users of Internet Explorer will stick with it once they take into account "all the factors that led them to choose I.E. in the first place." Beg your pardon. Choose? Doesn't I.E. come bundled with Windows?
Well I thank the author for addressing that quote which we've seen in other articles regarding Microsoft's comments towards Firefox. The reply was exactly what I (and many more) thought of the original quote.
1. You should have said: "Her problem is that she forgets to proofread."
2. It is "A lot", not "Alot".
3. "Disinterested" means one doesn't have a conflict of interest. You should have used "uninterested".
4. It is "justified", not "justificated".
5. It is "disenfranchised", not "disenfrenchfried", unless someone took away their French fries.
1. The "that" is really is superfluous.
2. Got me.
3. There's more than one "disinterested".
4 & 5, I was being ironic, you nitwit. Where's your sense of humous?
Seriously, I have a go at the spelling nazis because their contribution is about as fun and interesting as a session with a word processor.
Pointing out spelling mistakes only demonstrates a paucity of insight into the conversation at hand.
Doesn't matter where I work, the H.R. manager is one of the worst spellers in the company... Her problem is she forgets to proofread, but it still looks just as bad. I finally called her up about not proofreading stuff when she congratulated the wrong person for an internal promotion (not me).
Alot of people are just disinterested in proofreading-- they'd realize how atrocious their emails look if they actually read what they typed before pressing "Send".
As for your fear of spelling nazis, I fear you are justificated in the apparent normalcy of this disenfrenchfried bunch of losers that have nothing better to contribute.
The problem is, that's at odds with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" wisdom.
Of course you have a point, but there's something to be said for anticipating the need for change.
Old hard drives are going to punch-out sooner or later, your webserver might work with IPv4 today but someday IPv6 might be your only option, etc.
If-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it is a nice countermeasure to "change for change's sake", but it shouldn't exclude the opportunity to future-proof ourselves, right?
Well I'm not keen on RFIDs being anywhere, but I suppose there's no point complaining about them being on prescription containers, they already got my name and address on the things so I guess adding an RFID isn't going to make my prescriptions any less private.
...Actually your reply is an excellent example of avtively discouraging someone... Is it at all conceivable to you that this is one of the forms of discrimination the parent post was talking about?
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I beg your pardon! They prefer to be called "Management".
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Dunno about the 'States but in the UK and Canada you can't get a phone line without laying down a hefty deposit, in cases where the line has been disconnected for previous non-payment, or subscriber doesn't have permanent residency in the country.
... the "tingling" tells you it's working!
Super, I envision the day where I can replace my tin-foil hat with a nanotube beret.
...Fer fucks sake, just don't teach it goddamn "Stairway to Heaven"... anyone who's spent 10 minutes in a any guitar store on a busy street knows what I'm talking about.
If you do buckle under and play it his way I can guarantee you within a year of moving to your new office he will be blaming you for "not reading the book" for every extra minute you spend doing sysadmin work-- Likewise, you'll be blaming him for pushing you away from programming your programming career by insisting you "get the job done right first" with your admin duties.
Take a stand if you wish, but most small businessmen operate on the principle "No-one is irreplacable" and that means you too. You'd be alot happier working for someone who understands different IT roles and understands what your personal carreer goals are.
I totally get what you mean, but have you seen how much work it takes to get some of the typical stuff like IIS6 or Terminal Services up and going on Win2003 Server? Compared to Win2000, not that convenient after all.
I think all the new wizards for 2003 are there to discourage that "hm, what's this do?" syndrome.
Or is this just an ironic piece of writing done in the same vein as Douglas Adams? -- Ok, probably not, but this kind of review makes me more ready to be suprised...
Let's face it the quality of the movie really has nothing to do with anything but how soon it gets released on DVD to recoup the production costs:
Good to Bad: Christmas '05
Bad to Worse: End of Summer/Back to school sales
Train-wreck: July 4th weekend free-with-the-purchase-of-a-happy-meal.
Do all telephone companies try to incorporate "Bell" in their name?
What species of penguin is Suse, Gentoo and Slackware, and do any of these penguins wear a Red Hat? ;-P
My voice-activated remote control is broken. I keep asking for cooking shows about "prawns" and I get something wayyyy different.
On the bright side, lower than expected sales usually leads to price cuts so I'm glad the big hype machine failed.
What about installing a hanging ceiling and running the wires overhead? ... You could run the wires inside PVC tubing (or whatever you prefer) that's strapped to the beams of your basement ceiling, then hang the ceiling tiles afterwards, at your leisure.
I can't use wearable computers since my tie keeps getting caught in the CPU fan.
A brand name and a sport are two separate things... Wake me up when they award copyrights on the rules to baseball, hockey and football.
Well, you're not wrong, BUT, an article following a 2-page add that comes about by a community pulling resources together is also a comment regarding a grassroots movement going mainstream.
Well I thank the author for addressing that quote which we've seen in other articles regarding Microsoft's comments towards Firefox. The reply was exactly what I (and many more) thought of the original quote.
2. It is "A lot", not "Alot".
3. "Disinterested" means one doesn't have a conflict of interest. You should have used "uninterested".
4. It is "justified", not "justificated".
5. It is "disenfranchised", not "disenfrenchfried", unless someone took away their French fries.
1. The "that" is really is superfluous.
2. Got me.
3. There's more than one "disinterested".
4 & 5, I was being ironic, you nitwit. Where's your sense of humous?
Seriously, I have a go at the spelling nazis because their contribution is about as fun and interesting as a session with a word processor.
Pointing out spelling mistakes only demonstrates a paucity of insight into the conversation at hand.
Thank you! It really isn't.
Alot of people are just disinterested in proofreading-- they'd realize how atrocious their emails look if they actually read what they typed before pressing "Send".
As for your fear of spelling nazis, I fear you are justificated in the apparent normalcy of this disenfrenchfried bunch of losers that have nothing better to contribute.
Of course you have a point, but there's something to be said for anticipating the need for change.
Old hard drives are going to punch-out sooner or later, your webserver might work with IPv4 today but someday IPv6 might be your only option, etc.
If-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it is a nice countermeasure to "change for change's sake", but it shouldn't exclude the opportunity to future-proof ourselves, right?
...Only the ones rectangular in shape.
Well I'm not keen on RFIDs being anywhere, but I suppose there's no point complaining about them being on prescription containers, they already got my name and address on the things so I guess adding an RFID isn't going to make my prescriptions any less private.
I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just curious to know what sort of a gap Linux/BSD left behind that Sun felt the need to fill...
...Actually your reply is an excellent example of avtively discouraging someone... Is it at all conceivable to you that this is one of the forms of discrimination the parent post was talking about?
I beg your pardon! They prefer to be called "Management".