"And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN."
"This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
"Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom."
"That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old."
(Daniel 5:1-31 RSV)
I'm a Unix Sysadmin and a woman. And being a female Unix Sysadmin is not a rare encounter where I come from. There are 10 other women Unix admins in my department of 30. At my last job, there were 4 women Unix admins and 1 man, it was definitely a "Girl's Ghetto". You want DNS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, NFS, iPlanet web/app/directory server, MQ, Squid Proxy, VCS, Oracle, EMC Timefinder with SRDF, Websphere, Policy Director setup for ya'?? Hey, I'm your girl, I can fix you up right. You want that on a Solaris Starfire, HP-UX SuperDome, or AIX p690? No need to look any further, here I am, laying it down, ifconfig'ing it up.
I'm a wife. I'm a geekgrrl. I've been a tech-head from practically the cradle. I played Pong at age 5. Pacman at age 10. I hounded my single-parent mom for a Commodore 64 with 1541 disk drive and phone cradle modem (Q!) at age 12 and used it all the way into college using Broderbund word processing software and GEOS to write my papers (BTW it still works and my husband and I play Radar Rat Race on it for kicks every once in a while). I loved Macs in high school and when I could afford it, I traded up to a Mac Centris with 28.8 Hayes modem mid-college and loaded that puppy with Adobe Photoshop, Infini-D, and muchos mejores. Post-college I bought a Umax S900, which is currently on our network running a hacked version of Mac 10.2 OS X.
I research and buy all my own tech goodies, like my Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, except for when they're given to me from my wish list, like my Logitech RF rechargeable mouse/keyboard. I build my own Win XP (for my Win only games and for work) and Linux machines and hack my own kernel for specialty apps like AirSnort. I have an Axis 2100 network cam running Linux with add-on external microphone speakers setup so that I can watch and bug my cats into action from afar. I DIG TECH. And me being a woman shouldn't make one diff to you other tech heads. I could very likely kick your butt or very likely give you a run for your money in a match of Killer Instict as Maya. I love my Gamecube and my Xbox. I play online MMORPG's like Star Wars Galaxies. I GET TECH, all on my little girly own.
I am kind of apalled at all the sexist shopping jokes this thread has taken. If you'd ask my husband, he would tell you that he probably fits the description of a metrosexual. He has more jackets, shoes, shirts, cologne, hair product than I do and he's a tech-head for IBM doing mail, network and server administration.
If you're a man or a woman out there making sexist stereotypical jokes about who buys what, knock it off would you?! Quit insulting the intelligence of all your fellow tech-heads.
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"This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
"Then Belshazzar commanded, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put about his neck, and proclamation was made concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom."
"That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old." (Daniel 5:1-31 RSV)
I'm a Unix Sysadmin and a woman. And being a female Unix Sysadmin is not a rare encounter where I come from. There are 10 other women Unix admins in my department of 30. At my last job, there were 4 women Unix admins and 1 man, it was definitely a "Girl's Ghetto". You want DNS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, NFS, iPlanet web/app/directory server, MQ, Squid Proxy, VCS, Oracle, EMC Timefinder with SRDF, Websphere, Policy Director setup for ya'?? Hey, I'm your girl, I can fix you up right. You want that on a Solaris Starfire, HP-UX SuperDome, or AIX p690? No need to look any further, here I am, laying it down, ifconfig'ing it up.
I'm a wife. I'm a geekgrrl. I've been a tech-head from practically the cradle. I played Pong at age 5. Pacman at age 10. I hounded my single-parent mom for a Commodore 64 with 1541 disk drive and phone cradle modem (Q!) at age 12 and used it all the way into college using Broderbund word processing software and GEOS to write my papers (BTW it still works and my husband and I play Radar Rat Race on it for kicks every once in a while). I loved Macs in high school and when I could afford it, I traded up to a Mac Centris with 28.8 Hayes modem mid-college and loaded that puppy with Adobe Photoshop, Infini-D, and muchos mejores. Post-college I bought a Umax S900, which is currently on our network running a hacked version of Mac 10.2 OS X.
I research and buy all my own tech goodies, like my Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, except for when they're given to me from my wish list, like my Logitech RF rechargeable mouse/keyboard. I build my own Win XP (for my Win only games and for work) and Linux machines and hack my own kernel for specialty apps like AirSnort. I have an Axis 2100 network cam running Linux with add-on external microphone speakers setup so that I can watch and bug my cats into action from afar. I DIG TECH. And me being a woman shouldn't make one diff to you other tech heads. I could very likely kick your butt or very likely give you a run for your money in a match of Killer Instict as Maya. I love my Gamecube and my Xbox. I play online MMORPG's like Star Wars Galaxies. I GET TECH, all on my little girly own.
I am kind of apalled at all the sexist shopping jokes this thread has taken. If you'd ask my husband, he would tell you that he probably fits the description of a metrosexual. He has more jackets, shoes, shirts, cologne, hair product than I do and he's a tech-head for IBM doing mail, network and server administration.
If you're a man or a woman out there making sexist stereotypical jokes about who buys what, knock it off would you?! Quit insulting the intelligence of all your fellow tech-heads.
Grab some enlightenment, sit down and shutup.