When you're intoxicated and you read this, it'll really get your heart pumping. I didn't figure out it was a joke until I saw the news service was SatireWire.com. That's not funny! (although it would be a riot if I were a little more sober) --
timbo
If memory serves, each year that grad students worked on programming projects at Carnegie/Mellon(?), they were assigned a letter. W was an operating system project. The following year, X was assigned as the project to build a GUI interface to W. X somehow got out in the general public, and it was going to be renamed, but the name "X" was too well known. X10 I believe was the first release known to the outside world, X11 (11th release of X) is what we have today.
I work as a senior sysadmin at First Union. I mention the company because we made the news recently for firing 7 employees for passing around porno via Lotus Notes. We had to take a backup tape and set it to never expire, and it's now currently locked in a vault in our legal department. We did not find it, it was found by one of the Notes admins, who ran a usage test, and found users whose disk usage was way outta scale.
Personally, I think you gotta be pretty stupid to do that at work. Get a cheap ISP connection, and pass around anything, but not at work. It's not worth losing your job over it.
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When you're intoxicated and you read this, it'll really get your heart pumping. I didn't figure out it was a joke until I saw the news service was SatireWire.com. That's not funny! (although it would be a riot if I were a little more sober)
--
timbo
If memory serves, each year that grad students worked on programming projects at Carnegie/Mellon(?), they were assigned a letter. W was an operating system project. The following year, X was assigned as the project to build a GUI interface to W. X somehow got out in the general public, and it was going to be renamed, but the name "X" was too well known. X10 I believe was the first release known to the outside world, X11 (11th release of X) is what we have today.
I work as a senior sysadmin at First Union. I mention the company because we made the news recently for firing 7 employees for passing around porno via Lotus Notes. We had to take a backup tape and set it to never expire, and it's now currently locked in a vault in our legal department. We did not find it, it was found by one of the Notes admins, who ran a usage test, and found users whose disk usage was way outta scale.
Personally, I think you gotta be pretty stupid to do that at work. Get a cheap ISP connection, and pass around anything, but not at work. It's not worth losing your job over it.
timbo