You may get tons of manuals - studying them is something personal and *understanding* the nature of things explained there it's an art some very few really master.
My knowledge on working with complete idiots in this regard is rather limited (thank God!) but I have a friend that tried to "educate" a bunch of them in the CS department. Talking about *total failure*!
What really counts is having a some sort of common ground - that beeing either programming ( I mean C and/or C++ ) or admining ( though that doesn't help much ). Starting them from somwhere below sea-level knowledge-wise is prone to failure and lots of misunderstanding and problems deriving from that.
Documentation? humm... for a start - manuals listed as "man" should be quite enough - then - there's/usr/doc/*. If they miss the basics then you need something printed - O'Really (:) ) could be a good start.
No matter what - the will to actually learn something will greatly influence the amount of knowledge they will assimilate.
Now, wouldn't that become sensitive to EM noise? Heck - I remember a few years ago - I had my PC at my grandparents and when the damn thing was working their old radio (one with vacuum tubes) was catching quite a lot from the EM noise.
It wouldn't be nice to start having "image black-outs" just because you passed under a high-voltage line:)
arrggghhh...:) he's just another luser to in the pile... forget about him!:)
Though - the way MICROS~1 Windoz works - it may well use the antialiasing functions for reading and writing to disk!:) oooh - the fun that derives from this!:)
what's next? JPEG Compression for files eh?:) "this byte and this one and this one are all close enough to each other - we'll aproximate them with this one!":) and even more - MPEG compression applied to disks - these 2 files are alike - we'll aproximate them with something in between:)"
Ermm - there's a flaw in your argumentation there... You don't seem think to the fact that *IF* you buy the thing - you must *DO* something with it to get your money back. Also - if paying for the plugins or the whole beast doesn't worth - then use GIMP... It is best for small to medium sized jobs - and *SOME* (but very few) enterprise scale things.
It all boils down to "using the right tool for the right job"
Yup - it's rather primitive sometimes, but it does it's job quite well. One of the things that suck at Gimp is the plugin thingie - waaaay too slow. Hopefully it will become faster so it would have a match with PShop.
Oh - and BTW - Gimp is a real PITA if you decide to compile it from scratch... (Last version on Slowaris - anyone?)
Though - this would require using secure protocols - otherwise it would only make eavesdropping much easier... Go figure - stick up an antenna and there you go! Instant data on a stick!:)
Well - what can I say - I (still) work for a Mobile Telco here and we're facing for quite a while an almost scary migration of cluefull personel.
Now, some of the cluefull managers would have said and done everything that was listed here in the threads, but noo! the higher manglement (no - it's not a typo) decided that it would be better to introduce a freaking new work contract for employees starting at 1st of Nov. What is so "innovative" about this? oh, nothing - just the fact that the soon-to-be-employee is to pay 10K USD if he/she leaves in the first 3 years. This sum will start to be prorated only after the first year and no sooner.
Somehow - I have some strong doubts that they'll manage to aquire new IT stuff with this kind of policy...
Why not?:) there's WAP...:) you can take a crap through (on) your mobile-phone (anyways many of them suck! - so that helps) and upload it there! However - it will take ages if you didn't crapped for a long time - because connection is at 9600!:)
On the other hand - that'd create a new MIME Type lets' say "Content Type: Stream/Piss" or "Content Type: Shit/html":)
Internet Exploder would be the first browser that'd have the "Shit powered/compliant(tm)" logo!:)
MWAHAHAHA!! Imagine making MRTG graphs of load average ( EWWWW!!!:) )!
It'd be fun to administer them with HP-OV:):) - red shitters means overflow!:) and speaking of which - that'd give a whole new (and messy in the same time) meaning to "buffer overflow":)
How about skript-kiddiez - having a "How-To r00t.au t0ilettes":) and a brand new kick-start to pr0n sitez: "Direct link from your very next shitter"
It's kinda' debatable - after all they can be sued for the content - so what's more productive - paying big bucks to RIAA/whatever or silently removing (for free) your MP3s? go figure... On the other hand - you can have them renamed as ermmm - I dunno -.doc and there you go...:)
Now - when would they make that glue to stick bits together?... That'd give a whole new meaning to "sticky bits":) and will create a new category called "gooey bits" with their cousins "spoogy bits":)
It was many-many - oh-so-many - moons ago when I was using Gopher to find things, read docs and so on. Man that was life: net was fast, easy and to the point.
Then pr0n came... and fucked up everything. Sun helped with Java - Microsoft pimped it shamelessly and then all went down in flames. Then lusers got "on the information highway" and there you go - there's another project - called Internet2... possibly to get rid of them lusers.
Ta' hell with it - gimme a terminal and a lynx and I'm happy... well - for some values of happy - anyways.
>[...] >At least we in North America will benefit from software companies re-locating > here to produce and sell thier products.
I don't think that companies could be arsed to move to US... It's yet just another sample of the BS you're all full of (in a more or less amount). Go figure - could you make Siemens fly over to US? and land where? Get real man. After all Canada sounds a better choice for that - if it was to move headquarters - though no company it its right minds will ever attempt it. Why? "ECONOMICS" is the answer - the prices would so much sky-rocket that if it would be the only company on Earth producing whatever they'd produce - still no one would by from them.
However - if you're asking for a reality check - here it is - check what's going on with US (yes U.S.) companies that are having their development HQ located in Cyprus... Ha?! do I hear why are they doing that? because US is so great? I'd rather say "au contraire"(Fr.).
Conclusion: There is a world beyond US borders - sometimes better sometimes worse - but you are *NOT* the center of the world - much as you show your muscles to anyone caring enough to look at you. Learn some geography, learn some economy and then talk. TROLL!
IMO - they can all go and stick it up their hole where their head is.
Regarding their "Convert your paper assets into the fastest, smallest, clearest digital format" there was something like: "any paperless office will wind up consuming more paper than a simple - paper-based office." Conclusion? DIE AT&T - DIE! and take your bleeding proprietary format with you - it's allright DejaVu already!:)
Hummm.. how long to the day when you'll see things like: "w3 0wn y0ur DN@ c0d3!":) or "w3 h@xor3d y0ur w1f3 c0d3z! w3 0wn y0ur ch1ldr3n":) MWAHAHAHA!!:)
Well - I can say lack of sleep but I also can say "major unrecovery"... and as for recovery - I think that sliting a few luser throats will do - especially if you let them bleed to death on the SCSI cables or on the fibers...
Ah - don't forget to paint the data-room walls with their blood too. Works wonders for the evil spirits in the hardware.
Remember the mantra: "All Software Sucks, All Hardware Sucks"
There it goes - from now on breathing is covered by my "All-mighty-kick-ass-Patent(tm)". As I am a nice person exhaling will be free and only inhaling will be patented so from now on you can exhale as much as you want but you will have to pay the "1-Person Breathing license".
This license is a 1-user-1-life license to breath and is non transmissible between users. (Did we tell you that you'll be very sorry if we find you cheating on us? We hired the same land-sharks^Wlawyers Microsoft has!)
You will be able to purchase multiuser-1-life packages for pets and other house animals but you will not use them for human consumption.
A third way to license breathing is on a "Pay-as-you-go" basis which pretty much explains everything.
Now - gimme yer' money or hold your breath! You have no right to breathe!
In the next episode - Patent on Shitting(tm) - or in other words "Thou shall not shite!":)
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You may get tons of manuals - studying them is something personal and *understanding* the nature of things explained there it's an art some very few really master.
... for a start - manuals listed as "man" should be quite enough - then - there's /usr/doc/*. If they miss the basics then you need something printed - O'Really ( :) ) could be a good start.
My knowledge on working with complete idiots in this regard is rather limited (thank God!) but I have a friend that tried to "educate" a bunch of them in the CS department. Talking about *total failure*!
What really counts is having a some sort of common ground - that beeing either programming ( I mean C and/or C++ ) or admining ( though that doesn't help much ). Starting them from somwhere below sea-level knowledge-wise is prone to failure and lots of misunderstanding and problems deriving from that.
Documentation? humm
No matter what - the will to actually learn something will greatly influence the amount of knowledge they will assimilate.
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Now, wouldn't that become sensitive to EM noise? Heck - I remember a few years ago - I had my PC at my grandparents and when the damn thing was working their old radio (one with vacuum tubes) was catching quite a lot from the EM noise.
:)
It wouldn't be nice to start having "image black-outs" just because you passed under a high-voltage line
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Will it have C comments in it? :) will it be formed of all his comments in the kernel sources? :)
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arrggghhh ... :) he's just another luser to in the pile... forget about him! :)
:) oooh - the fun that derives from this! :)
:) "this byte and this one and this one are all close enough to each other - we'll aproximate them with this one!":) and even more - MPEG compression applied to disks - these 2 files are alike - we'll aproximate them with something in between :)"
Though - the way MICROS~1 Windoz works - it may well use the antialiasing functions for reading and writing to disk!
what's next? JPEG Compression for files eh?
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Ermm - there's a flaw in your argumentation there... You don't seem think to the fact that *IF* you buy the thing - you must *DO* something with it to get your money back.
Also - if paying for the plugins or the whole beast doesn't worth - then use GIMP... It is best for small to medium sized jobs - and *SOME* (but very few) enterprise scale things.
It all boils down to "using the right tool for the right job"
--
Yup - it's rather primitive sometimes, but it does it's job quite well. One of the things that suck at Gimp is the plugin thingie - waaaay too slow. Hopefully it will become faster so it would have a match with PShop.
Oh - and BTW - Gimp is a real PITA if you decide to compile it from scratch... (Last version on Slowaris - anyone?)
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Heh.. poor souls lost for Gate$ware and Job$ware.
And thinking of this kind of lay-offs... when will be the moment when RealNetw0rks will discontinue RealPlayer G2 for Linux?
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and IIRC - a much higher freqency...
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There's that project they call "Internet 2" - though I fear the day when lusers will invade it just like they did it with this one. It's inevitable!
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No - I think they mean "Artificial Insemination" :)
... fun! :)
Which could be
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Though - this would require using secure protocols - otherwise it would only make eavesdropping much easier... Go figure - stick up an antenna and there you go! Instant data on a stick! :)
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Well - what can I say - I (still) work for a Mobile Telco here and we're facing for quite a while an almost scary migration of cluefull personel.
Now, some of the cluefull managers would have said and done everything that was listed here in the threads, but noo! the higher manglement (no - it's not a typo) decided that it would be better to introduce a freaking new work contract for employees starting at 1st of Nov. What is so "innovative" about this? oh, nothing - just the fact that the soon-to-be-employee is to pay 10K USD if he/she leaves in the first 3 years. This sum will start to be prorated only after the first year and no sooner.
Somehow - I have some strong doubts that they'll manage to aquire new IT stuff with this kind of policy...
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Why not? :) there's WAP... :) you can take a crap through (on) your mobile-phone (anyways many of them suck! - so that helps) and upload it there! However - it will take ages if you didn't crapped for a long time - because connection is at 9600! :)
:)
:)
On the other hand - that'd create a new MIME Type lets' say "Content Type: Stream/Piss" or "Content Type: Shit/html"
Internet Exploder would be the first browser that'd have the "Shit powered/compliant(tm)" logo!
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> $ touch /dev/anus /dev/anus" or "finger @anus" or even worse"fsck /dev/anus" or "mount /dev/anus"? :)
/dev/anus0" :) :) :)
/dev/anus0"
how about "cat mobys-dick |
An how about ripping you a brand new hole?:) like this "mknod
How about ass-igning it to someone else? with "chown luser
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MWAHAHAHA!! Imagine making MRTG graphs of load average ( EWWWW!!!:) )!
:) :) - red shitters means overflow! :) and speaking of which - that'd give a whole new (and messy in the same time) meaning to "buffer overflow" :)
.au t0ilettes" :) and a brand new kick-start to pr0n sitez: "Direct link from your very next shitter"
It'd be fun to administer them with HP-OV
How about skript-kiddiez - having a "How-To r00t
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Speaking of submarines - juse make sure they don't name one as "Kursk" :) it's bound to explode and sink! :)
:)
Then the official explanations will be that it colided with an unknown NATO submarine...
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It's kinda' debatable - after all they can be sued for the content - so what's more productive - paying big bucks to RIAA/whatever or silently removing (for free) your MP3s? go figure... On the other hand - you can have them renamed as ermmm - I dunno - .doc and there you go... :)
--
Now - when would they make that glue to stick bits together?... That'd give a whole new meaning to "sticky bits" :) and will create a new category called "gooey bits" with their cousins "spoogy bits" :)
--
It was many-many - oh-so-many - moons ago when I was using Gopher to find things, read docs and so on. Man that was life: net was fast, easy and to the point.
... and fucked up everything. Sun helped with Java - Microsoft pimped it shamelessly and then all went down in flames. Then lusers got "on the information highway" and there you go - there's another project - called Internet2... possibly to get rid of them lusers.
Then pr0n came
Ta' hell with it - gimme a terminal and a lynx and I'm happy... well - for some values of happy - anyways.
--
>[...]
>At least we in North America will benefit from software companies re-locating
> here to produce and sell thier products.
I don't think that companies could be arsed to move to US... It's yet just another sample of the BS you're all full of (in a more or less amount).
Go figure - could you make Siemens fly over to US? and land where? Get real man. After all Canada sounds a better choice for that - if it was to move headquarters - though no company it its right minds will ever attempt it. Why? "ECONOMICS" is the answer - the prices would so much sky-rocket that if it would be the only company on Earth producing whatever they'd produce - still no one would by from them.
However - if you're asking for a reality check - here it is - check what's going on with US (yes U.S.) companies that are having their development HQ located in Cyprus... Ha?! do I hear why are they doing that? because US is so great? I'd rather say "au contraire"(Fr.).
Conclusion: There is a world beyond US borders - sometimes better sometimes worse - but you are *NOT* the center of the world - much as you show your muscles to anyone caring enough to look at you. Learn some geography, learn some economy and then talk. TROLL!
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IMO - they can all go and stick it up their hole where their head is. :)
Regarding their "Convert your paper assets into the fastest, smallest, clearest digital format" there was something like: "any paperless office will wind up consuming more paper than a simple - paper-based office."
Conclusion? DIE AT&T - DIE! and take your bleeding proprietary format with you - it's allright DejaVu already!
--
Hummm .. how long to the day when you'll see things like: "w3 0wn y0ur DN@ c0d3!" :) or "w3 h@xor3d y0ur w1f3 c0d3z! w3 0wn y0ur ch1ldr3n" :) :)
MWAHAHAHA!!
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Democracy - my foot! :)
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting what to have for lunch!
HTH! HAND
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Well - I can say lack of sleep but I also can say "major unrecovery"... and as for recovery - I think that sliting a few luser throats will do - especially if you let them bleed to death on the SCSI cables or on the fibers...
Ah - don't forget to paint the data-room walls with their blood too. Works wonders for the evil spirits in the hardware.
Remember the mantra: "All Software Sucks, All Hardware Sucks"
--
There it goes - from now on breathing is covered by my "All-mighty-kick-ass-Patent(tm)".
:)
As I am a nice person exhaling will be free and only inhaling will be patented so from now on you can exhale as much as you want but you will have to pay the "1-Person Breathing license". This license is a 1-user-1-life license to breath and is non transmissible between users. (Did we tell you that you'll be very sorry if we find you cheating on us? We hired the same land-sharks^Wlawyers Microsoft has!)
You will be able to purchase multiuser-1-life packages for pets and other house animals but you will not use them for human consumption.
A third way to license breathing is on a "Pay-as-you-go" basis which pretty much explains everything.
Now - gimme yer' money or hold your breath! You have no right to breathe!
In the next episode - Patent on Shitting(tm) - or in other words "Thou shall not shite!"
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