'At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office,' Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. 'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, '
Anger management "issues". Clear potential for workplace violence. Keep an eye on this man. Write him up and let HR send him to a class.
It's not like we've got any of the SFnal nanotech wonders (blue goo, grey goo, computerized toothpaste that rebuilds your teeth, etc.) yet. This is fancy materials science. Super nylon.
I haven't copyrighted it. Feel free to spread the meme.
My first thoughts this way came a couple months ago, reading one of the trade rag columnists. He was comparing Linux to Windows for some use or other. At one point he commented that Windows had all these security problems and other issues, but that Microsoft was going to fix them, then life would be beautiful. Not in exactly those words, of course.
I can sell MS Office and leave them to their own devices and make money doing it, or I can install OpenOffice, and have them whine that it't not exactly like MSO.
Sad, but most people don't want to look beyond Microsoft's products, despite the headaches.
Me: You can try. They were all.coms and vaporized in the bubble burst. However, one of my old bosses works at Dennys on the night shift now. You might be able to catch him there.
Very true.
It's scary to contemplate, but, with the exception of my current employer, every single one of my employers since I entered the field in '91 are bankrupt (remember Inacom?), closed up, sold out -- just plain gone. I've got no references.
I like the original M$ ergo keyboard, but every single one I've ever seen was a cootie magnet. Grime on the keycaps, and you don't even want to think about what's accumulating underneath.
One is on Small Business Server. One is on Plain Old Server. I can run backups manually with no problem, but on the SBS machine a scheduled backup from a batch file will sometimes work, mostly not. On the POS 2003 machine, I just haven't been able to get scheduled backup to work.
Obviously you've never worked on a heavy smoker's computer if ANY amount of fluffy gray dust can still bother you...
Once you've seen the gooey orange stuff, you'll be thankful for mere hairballs.
You can always tell a smoker's computer. I'd describe the coating on the inside (and outside, if they're really bad) more as a greasy brown, myself. They smell bad, too. Yuk.
Worst I've seen was one where the air circulation slots in the power supply were completely clogged with greasy brown fuzzy gunk. Power supply had failed, naturally.
First, I have never found any spyware problem that I could not resolve in approx 2 hrs or so. It is realtively simple.
In the last month I've run into several systems with Coolwebsearch variants that appear, so far, to be unremovable. Every tool I have. Everywhere I know to look (and I look more places than you), and it keeps coming back, overwriting the hosts file, hijacking the home page.
If it's taking more than two hours, it's probably time (the clock is ticking, $69/hr) to think about backing up user data and repaving the system.
Sixteen electronic computerized sensors embedded in the gun's grip distinguished known from unknown users. "We've only just begun and we're pleased to say that we're getting 90 percent reliability when scanning users," said Sebastian.
That's up to about as reliable as the Jennings J-22 jam-o-matic POS gun I owned about 10 years ago.
MS Antispam doesn't seem to deal effectively with Coolwebsearch.
I've got one on the bench now, with some Coolwebsearch variant (out of 3 today with this particular problem. One went back to the owner. The other's running WinME.) Adaware and Spybot won't touch it, and CWSchredder just dies. Alas, MSAS doesn't seem to handle it any better.
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Uhhh.... exactly what was impressive about The Dark Crystal beyond the animation? Certainly not the story.
If it's going to take longer than 3 hours, backup, wipe and reinstall.
Thank you very much. I'm 50, and I dread the next time I need to look for work.
Right-o. Current thought as I follow it seems to be that, in fact, there ain't anyone else out there (or at least vanishingly few).
Isn't that a little obscure? I've read it, many years ago. It didn't strike me at the time as anything significant.
What is this "raise" thing?
Anger management "issues". Clear potential for workplace violence. Keep an eye on this man. Write him up and let HR send him to a class.
It's not like we've got any of the SFnal nanotech wonders (blue goo, grey goo, computerized toothpaste that rebuilds your teeth, etc.) yet. This is fancy materials science. Super nylon.
Who's putting them up to this?
My first thoughts this way came a couple months ago, reading one of the trade rag columnists. He was comparing Linux to Windows for some use or other. At one point he commented that Windows had all these security problems and other issues, but that Microsoft was going to fix them, then life would be beautiful. Not in exactly those words, of course.
My immediate reaction: "This is delusional!"
Sad, but most people don't want to look beyond Microsoft's products, despite the headaches.
It's a classic abusive relationship.
Shoddy hardware. "Unmountable boot volume" errors and broken registries. Malware and viruses.
"These are a few of my faaaavorite things"
Very true.
It's scary to contemplate, but, with the exception of my current employer, every single one of my employers since I entered the field in '91 are bankrupt (remember Inacom?), closed up, sold out -- just plain gone. I've got no references.
How many of those downloads are techs like myself who install it on any computer that comes there way, just to have a browser that doesn't suck?
"If you run Windows, and don't have current antivirus, you can't use the network."
They need to make these things autoclavable.
One is on Small Business Server. One is on Plain Old Server. I can run backups manually with no problem, but on the SBS machine a scheduled backup from a batch file will sometimes work, mostly not. On the POS 2003 machine, I just haven't been able to get scheduled backup to work.
Apu with Microsoft didn't help much.
So, will this finally fix the problems with ntbackup that I'm seeing with some of my customers?
You can always tell a smoker's computer. I'd describe the coating on the inside (and outside, if they're really bad) more as a greasy brown, myself. They smell bad, too. Yuk.
Worst I've seen was one where the air circulation slots in the power supply were completely clogged with greasy brown fuzzy gunk. Power supply had failed, naturally.
In the last month I've run into several systems with Coolwebsearch variants that appear, so far, to be unremovable. Every tool I have. Everywhere I know to look (and I look more places than you), and it keeps coming back, overwriting the hosts file, hijacking the home page.
If it's taking more than two hours, it's probably time (the clock is ticking, $69/hr) to think about backing up user data and repaving the system.
That's up to about as reliable as the Jennings J-22 jam-o-matic POS gun I owned about 10 years ago.
Some people trust computer tech too much.
MS Antispam doesn't seem to deal effectively with Coolwebsearch.
I've got one on the bench now, with some Coolwebsearch variant (out of 3 today with this particular problem. One went back to the owner. The other's running WinME.) Adaware and Spybot won't touch it, and CWSchredder just dies. Alas, MSAS doesn't seem to handle it any better.
in the desktop OS category, for it's tendancy to, for the slightest of causes, or none at all, decide to go down and take everything with it.
It is amazing to me what people will put up with in the way of a stability or preformance hit before they'll seek professional help.
When you eliminate disease and ageing as causes of death, you're left with accident, murder and suicide.
Darn few would make it to 1 kiloyear. Those that did would mostly have led very boring lives.
What else? De-hose people's clotted up Windows boxes, of course.