When I type webapp, Lotus Notes spell check suggests I change it to wetback. Ver 6.5. I wish I was joking. On further investigation, the 'big one' isn't in the dictionary, but gook is. Wow. Just wow.
How about when you have a message selected (but not opened) and try to export it? Starts exporting the entire mailbox with no cancel.
I offer this poll, Why does Notes suck so much?
*Search don't search
*Sort don't sort
*Cut and Paste from a webpage means grab some coffee
*UI stands for User Interference
*Blazing Speed
*Hit Yes to send with comments, No to send without comments, and cancel to bring you back to this same dialog
*Contextual nonsense
*Reply All to "undisclosed recipients" discloses the undisclosed recipients
I could go on for days, but I just copied this text into Notes to try to spell check it. Time for coffee.
Way to use the tried and true methods of co-opting and framing with the word Pro-Choice. It's the only logical step in this completely illogical farce that is ID. As much as I hate this practice, you've got to admire the republicans' ingenuity.
Let's play this game some more, I'll be you:
I'm pro-choice on global warming (I choose to think it's junk science)
I'm pro-choice on logging/drilling (I can choose wherever I want)
I'm pro-choice on immigration (They can choose to get shot)
I'm pro-choice on Net Neutrality (Companies can choose what to charge)
I'm pro-choice on torture (I can choose to call it torture or not)
If his job was to move content out when he gets an ECC task, it should be pretty damn apparent what needed to happen after my first email, right?
Your attitude is the reason SysAdmins are hated. "I'm so rad because I push a button that magically moves stuff from one place to the other, how can you possibly be bothering me to do my job?!?"
Just so you know, this sysadmin has tried to 'LART' me, but always ends up looking like an idiot, because he's the one who needs an adjustment.
I wonder, does SysAdmin knowledge overwrite the same part of the brain that houses professionalism, politeness, and tact?
Other repliers: the ECC stands for Enterprise Change Control. He knew what it meant and I didn't think the explanation of the acronym was necessary, but some of you got all butthurt about it, so there it is. And yes, the system does suck and should be automatically notifying, but it doesn't.
Actual conversation with a sysadmin. The names have been removed to protect the idoits.
Me (M): I just entered a Pre-approved ECC to move the Learning Center content out.
Sysadmin (S): So you need something moved?
M: You're being facetious, right?
S: No. There are no details you just said you made a ECC.
M: See below: "I just entered a Pre-approved ECC to move the Learning Center content out."
S: So there must be a ECC task right?
Every conversation I have with this guy is a reinterpretation of "Who's on first?"
I just had a six month review. Everything was excellent. The only thing negative that was said was to "please keep my voice down when bitching about the sysadmins." Not stop bitching, just keep my voice down.
I almost gave up IT this year. I was working at a financial institute and the work was fun. I wrote a BlackBerry app using java with a.Net backend. Fun stuff. But my manager was a complete jerk. Constantly moody. At my review he said "99% of the time we love you, but that 1% is killing us". I was out for a few days earlier in the year when my son's babysitter almost died, and this was brought up. "I don't care about your babysitter, I don't care about your kid. I just want you to be here for eight hours a day." I gave my notice at the end of the week. Turns out he lost all of his developers in that review month. He must have read somewhere that reviews were the place to smack your employees around.
Although it wasn't the work that made me quit, I was very reluctant to go through the same crap with a new manager. Instead of giving up IT entirely, I went out on my own again. I barely had enough work to pay the bills through the summer, but DAMN I was relaxed! By the end of the summer I was able to stomach another corporate job. It's boring work (See: Read Slashdot), but they are flexible. My old manager was anything but. I'll give it a while and if I get too bored, do my own thang again.
Burnout may not be something you can control, but you can fix it.
Sure comparing spam and ads is a little dumb (We are talking about Forrester here...), and skews any numbers, but I'm sure everyone has one of those A-holes in your town who is constantly screaming specials at you because he is liquidating his warehouse for the umpteenth time. If that ain't spam, I don't know what is.
-Offtopic-
On a related note, the guy in my town (Stereo City, PDX) is so obnoxious I vowed to punch him in the nose if I ever saw him. Turns out he needed a website and someone recommended me. I declined, because I just couldn't bring myself to help him. And I was afraid I might punch him in a meeting.
-/Offtopic-
When will we be seeing highlights on Network News?
"There was a showdown in Vegas tonight, as G0atsxHax0r defended his title against sLUtfuCKer, a rising star from Alabama. sLUtfuCKer came in with high expectations but was disappointed by G0atsxHax0r's three early headshots. He got a reprieve when the judges penalized G0atsxHax0r for excessive squatting over a dead opponent. But in the end, sLUtfuCKer was thoroughly pwnd."
Thanks a lot to the moderators out there who don't have a sense of humor. Since funny mods don't affect Karma, the one or two asshats who modded me down (How is that joke Offtopic?) dropped my Karma to bad.
The ancient Egyptians had a marvellous habit of recording a great many things on very durable media - including how their own technology worked. A 1: If they were so good at recording their technology, then why are we still debating how they made the pyramids? Are there pictographs showing hundreds of slaves pushing/pulling a giant slab up the face? Maybe there are, but I haven't heard of them, and they surely would have removed a lot of the mysteries.
A 2: They article states that the method was used on more than one pyramid, so yes.
Q: The song E=mc Hawking contains the line, "my power is my mass times the speed of light squared."
Even a first year physics student in high school knows that energy (not power) is mass times the speed of light squared. Power (the rate of energy) is mass times the speed of light squared, divided by time.
If the song lyric were true, time would be constant and, it goes without saying, the universe would collapse upon itself. Given that this has not occurred, the statement must be incorrect.
A: As I indicated in the above FAQ, I am not a physicist. So, if I had written the song the error could be attributed to simple ignorance. However, since MC Hawking wrote the tune there must be another explanation. Therefore, I passed this question on the MC Hawking himself. He had this to say:
Yo! Fuck you bitch. You wanna to step to the Hawkman on physics? You're in my house now punk!
Check it, the rhyme doesn't say that power is mass times the speed of light squared, it says that my power is mass times the speed of light squared.
The song also says that, "E stands for energy, yo that's me...". So, my power is energy motherfucker.
Therefore, the equation can be expressed thusly (where e=energy, m=mass, c=the speed of light and x=my power):
x=mc2 AND x=e THEREFORE e=mc2.
Step-off bitch!
I laughed for hours, then spent a week trying to explain to other people why it was funny...
The Vandals - Sweating to the Oldies - Every song better than the recorded version
Pantera - 101 Proof Live - It's hard to believe what Dimebag could do.
Beatles Anthology - Some of these cuts are much more intimate than the recordings
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won - 'nuff said
I was at an ad agency and one of the partner's friends had recently put out a book called "Moral Mandate to Vote", a pile of uber-right garbage. I did the site, being the web developer, even though I thought it was BS, but put my foot down when they wanted me to post a pic of a fetus grabbing a doc's finger. I told them someone else would have to do it. They were a little surprised that I said that, but then they had someone else do it. I guess I had that 'rare talent'. Or maybe they didn't want to go through a hiring/firing over one image.
Put your foot down and roll with the punches. Sure, Top Ramen is pretty gross and not very nutritional, but you'll have a sense of pride while you eat it.
I'm in Portland, and when I'm not at work I could easily be mistaken for a criminal (I look like a skater). I'm going to call up some of my more unscrupulous friends (I went to an inner city high school) and see if anyone knows where to find a 'cheap' laptop.
I think checking CraigsList and eBay can be helpful, although I've never had much luck with eBay. A friend of mine found his laptop on CraigsList and contacted the seller to buy it. Once he had met the individual, he was able to 'persuade' the individual into to giving it back.
I can't stand thieves in the first place, but from FreeGeek? That's low.
If by "acting as if he had WMDs", you mean repeating over and over again that he doesn't have any, then yeah. If he says he doesn't have them, he must be lying! If we throw Saddam into a well and he floats, he must be a witch!
And if by "denying access to WMD inspectors", you mean begging the inspectors to come back AGAIN and tell the US AGAIN that they don't have any, then yeah. We were the ones who told them to leave, 'cause we were tired of waiting.
All of the below listed things can be explained away by anyone with a Stars & Stripes diaper and a Fox News bottle:
Valerie Plame affair
Imminent Threat to US
Yellow Cake Uranium
Missile Casings
Iraq - Al-Qaeda fraternity
None of these were lies? Just boo-boos? Then you bought it hook, line, and sinker. Even my former-republican (Independent after Bush II) WWII/Korean vet GP says these guys should be hanged in their own unconstitutional Military Tribunals. Please remove the flag from your ass and stand up for what it is supposed to represent. Or just enlist. We're running out of 'Peace Keepers' in Iraq.
Apparently it's official. I've been trying to pass myself off as a geek for years, but I've finally been exposed as a less-than-nerd who doesn't even know about the Neverending Story III. I'm sorry Slashdot. Maybe we can still be friends?
Slashdot Mirror
When I type webapp, Lotus Notes spell check suggests I change it to wetback. Ver 6.5. I wish I was joking. On further investigation, the 'big one' isn't in the dictionary, but gook is. Wow. Just wow.
How about when you have a message selected (but not opened) and try to export it? Starts exporting the entire mailbox with no cancel.
I offer this poll, Why does Notes suck so much?
*Search don't search
*Sort don't sort
*Cut and Paste from a webpage means grab some coffee
*UI stands for User Interference
*Blazing Speed
*Hit Yes to send with comments, No to send without comments, and cancel to bring you back to this same dialog
*Contextual nonsense
*Reply All to "undisclosed recipients" discloses the undisclosed recipients
I could go on for days, but I just copied this text into Notes to try to spell check it. Time for coffee.
Damn it, I accidentally marked you as interesting. Now I have to post to get rid of it. So, I'll take this opportunity to call you a moron. Moron.
and pro-choice as far as education.
Way to use the tried and true methods of co-opting and framing with the word Pro-Choice. It's the only logical step in this completely illogical farce that is ID. As much as I hate this practice, you've got to admire the republicans' ingenuity.
Let's play this game some more, I'll be you:
The best book I've read on this is George Lakoff: Don't think of an elephant!: know your values and frame the debate. Required reading (only 150 pages - you can do it)
If his job was to move content out when he gets an ECC task, it should be pretty damn apparent what needed to happen after my first email, right?
Your attitude is the reason SysAdmins are hated. "I'm so rad because I push a button that magically moves stuff from one place to the other, how can you possibly be bothering me to do my job?!?"
Just so you know, this sysadmin has tried to 'LART' me, but always ends up looking like an idiot, because he's the one who needs an adjustment.
I wonder, does SysAdmin knowledge overwrite the same part of the brain that houses professionalism, politeness, and tact?
Other repliers: the ECC stands for Enterprise Change Control. He knew what it meant and I didn't think the explanation of the acronym was necessary, but some of you got all butthurt about it, so there it is. And yes, the system does suck and should be automatically notifying, but it doesn't.
Actual conversation with a sysadmin. The names have been removed to protect the idoits.
Me (M): I just entered a Pre-approved ECC to move the Learning Center content out.
Sysadmin (S): So you need something moved?
M: You're being facetious, right?
S: No. There are no details you just said you made a ECC.
M: See below: "I just entered a Pre-approved ECC to move the Learning Center content out."
S: So there must be a ECC task right?
Every conversation I have with this guy is a reinterpretation of "Who's on first?"
I just had a six month review. Everything was excellent. The only thing negative that was said was to "please keep my voice down when bitching about the sysadmins." Not stop bitching, just keep my voice down.
Good comeback! +1 Smartness!
I almost gave up IT this year. I was working at a financial institute and the work was fun. I wrote a BlackBerry app using java with a .Net backend. Fun stuff. But my manager was a complete jerk. Constantly moody. At my review he said "99% of the time we love you, but that 1% is killing us". I was out for a few days earlier in the year when my son's babysitter almost died, and this was brought up. "I don't care about your babysitter, I don't care about your kid. I just want you to be here for eight hours a day." I gave my notice at the end of the week. Turns out he lost all of his developers in that review month. He must have read somewhere that reviews were the place to smack your employees around.
Although it wasn't the work that made me quit, I was very reluctant to go through the same crap with a new manager. Instead of giving up IT entirely, I went out on my own again. I barely had enough work to pay the bills through the summer, but DAMN I was relaxed! By the end of the summer I was able to stomach another corporate job. It's boring work (See: Read Slashdot), but they are flexible. My old manager was anything but. I'll give it a while and if I get too bored, do my own thang again.
Burnout may not be something you can control, but you can fix it.
Sure comparing spam and ads is a little dumb (We are talking about Forrester here...), and skews any numbers, but I'm sure everyone has one of those A-holes in your town who is constantly screaming specials at you because he is liquidating his warehouse for the umpteenth time. If that ain't spam, I don't know what is.
-Offtopic-
On a related note, the guy in my town (Stereo City, PDX) is so obnoxious I vowed to punch him in the nose if I ever saw him. Turns out he needed a website and someone recommended me. I declined, because I just couldn't bring myself to help him. And I was afraid I might punch him in a meeting.
-/Offtopic-
I was hoping for an announcement of the Tek Jansen video game. As long as we don't have to do the shuttle landing part.
From the theme song: "Loving the aliens... Killing the aliens... Sometimes loving then killing the aliens."
When will we be seeing highlights on Network News?
"There was a showdown in Vegas tonight, as G0atsxHax0r defended his title against sLUtfuCKer, a rising star from Alabama. sLUtfuCKer came in with high expectations but was disappointed by G0atsxHax0r's three early headshots. He got a reprieve when the judges penalized G0atsxHax0r for excessive squatting over a dead opponent. But in the end, sLUtfuCKer was thoroughly pwnd."
YouTube: Watch boy smash face into ground
Azureus: Watch boy smash face into ground in excruciating detail
HD, ho hum... I'll pass until Smell-o-vision comes around.
Thanks a lot to the moderators out there who don't have a sense of humor. Since funny mods don't affect Karma, the one or two asshats who modded me down (How is that joke Offtopic?) dropped my Karma to bad.
In Terrible, no one sees your posts...
I wish I hadn't of posted so I could have modded you instead. MOD PARENT UP
A 1: If they were so good at recording their technology, then why are we still debating how they made the pyramids? Are there pictographs showing hundreds of slaves pushing/pulling a giant slab up the face? Maybe there are, but I haven't heard of them, and they surely would have removed a lot of the mysteries.
A 2: They article states that the method was used on more than one pyramid, so yes.
Silly rabbit, sigs are for kids
So when will Microsoft be buying Diebold?
From MC Hawkings FAQ's:
Q: The song E=mc Hawking contains the line, "my power is my mass times the speed of light squared."
Even a first year physics student in high school knows that energy (not power) is mass times the speed of light squared. Power (the rate of energy) is mass times the speed of light squared, divided by time.
If the song lyric were true, time would be constant and, it goes without saying, the universe would collapse upon itself. Given that this has not occurred, the statement must be incorrect.
A: As I indicated in the above FAQ, I am not a physicist. So, if I had written the song the error could be attributed to simple ignorance. However, since MC Hawking wrote the tune there must be another explanation. Therefore, I passed this question on the MC Hawking himself. He had this to say:
Yo! Fuck you bitch. You wanna to step to the Hawkman on physics? You're in my house now punk! Check it, the rhyme doesn't say that power is mass times the speed of light squared, it says that my power is mass times the speed of light squared.
The song also says that, "E stands for energy, yo that's me...". So, my power is energy motherfucker.
Therefore, the equation can be expressed thusly (where e=energy, m=mass, c=the speed of light and x=my power):
x=mc2 AND x=e THEREFORE e=mc2.
Step-off bitch!
I laughed for hours, then spent a week trying to explain to other people why it was funny...
In space, no one can hear your voice synthesizer...
The Vandals - Sweating to the Oldies - Every song better than the recorded version
Pantera - 101 Proof Live - It's hard to believe what Dimebag could do.
Beatles Anthology - Some of these cuts are much more intimate than the recordings
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won - 'nuff said
Oh wait... We're talking linux again, huh?
I was at an ad agency and one of the partner's friends had recently put out a book called "Moral Mandate to Vote", a pile of uber-right garbage. I did the site, being the web developer, even though I thought it was BS, but put my foot down when they wanted me to post a pic of a fetus grabbing a doc's finger. I told them someone else would have to do it. They were a little surprised that I said that, but then they had someone else do it. I guess I had that 'rare talent'. Or maybe they didn't want to go through a hiring/firing over one image.
Put your foot down and roll with the punches. Sure, Top Ramen is pretty gross and not very nutritional, but you'll have a sense of pride while you eat it.
I'm in Portland, and when I'm not at work I could easily be mistaken for a criminal (I look like a skater). I'm going to call up some of my more unscrupulous friends (I went to an inner city high school) and see if anyone knows where to find a 'cheap' laptop.
I think checking CraigsList and eBay can be helpful, although I've never had much luck with eBay. A friend of mine found his laptop on CraigsList and contacted the seller to buy it. Once he had met the individual, he was able to 'persuade' the individual into to giving it back.
I can't stand thieves in the first place, but from FreeGeek? That's low.
[FLAME ON!]
If by "acting as if he had WMDs", you mean repeating over and over again that he doesn't have any, then yeah. If he says he doesn't have them, he must be lying! If we throw Saddam into a well and he floats, he must be a witch!
And if by "denying access to WMD inspectors", you mean begging the inspectors to come back AGAIN and tell the US AGAIN that they don't have any, then yeah. We were the ones who told them to leave, 'cause we were tired of waiting.
All of the below listed things can be explained away by anyone with a Stars & Stripes diaper and a Fox News bottle:
Valerie Plame affair
Imminent Threat to US
Yellow Cake Uranium
Missile Casings
Iraq - Al-Qaeda fraternity
None of these were lies? Just boo-boos? Then you bought it hook, line, and sinker. Even my former-republican (Independent after Bush II) WWII/Korean vet GP says these guys should be hanged in their own unconstitutional Military Tribunals. Please remove the flag from your ass and stand up for what it is supposed to represent. Or just enlist. We're running out of 'Peace Keepers' in Iraq.
[FLAME OFF!]
I don't mind posting a couple days late...
The fact that this JUST NOW made news on Slashdot (Slow week?) makes me as sad as I was when I read it in JUNE.
Apparently it's official. I've been trying to pass myself off as a geek for years, but I've finally been exposed as a less-than-nerd who doesn't even know about the Neverending Story III. I'm sorry Slashdot. Maybe we can still be friends?
...will be released as the Neverending Story III. It will be worse than the game and the two previous movies combined. It will suck forever.
They might as well just post the offending URL here. Down quicker than you can say "Service Unavailable".