[[ One company I worked for purchased some software from Tivoli. After 6 months, and a team of engineers onsite from the vendor, they still couldn't get the components to talk for more than a day without problems (after weeks of installation), and still couldn't get useful data out of the database due to its size, so we took our $500mil back and bought something else. ]]
--Out of curiosity, what did you buy to replace it?
--"In related news: Alex Trebek fell to his knees, wept for joy, kissed his producer on the lips, and drove willy-nilly out of town for a long vacation, after first picking up a midget hooker (http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00002771.HTML) and enticing her to join him for the ride." :b
--That, and you NEED to be able to take TIME OFF from work to recover your sanity. Motorcycling helps. Martial arts may help. Spongebob might even help.:)
--And if all else fails, get the Hell out of your current job and try something different - don't wait until it's too late.
--Tell me about it. Up till now I haven't had a problem, but their latest Linux driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run ) breaks compat with my PCI TNT2 (Guillemot) card. X freezes so hard that you have to reboot to get the display back. SSH still works however; but there is a huge slowdown on all processes, even during ' reboot '.
--I'm about to yank teh stupid card out and just use the mobo Intel at this point; Nvidia's driver has been broken since November 5!
--HOWEVER... The **hard** part is getting **everyone** to buy into the idea of walking out, much less doing this at the same time. Mass revolt would be a very good idea, but:
1. They should have done it a long time ago
2. Doing it NOW probably wouldn't change much (but if I were them, I'd definitely walk out en masse.)
--Bottom line, what EA is doing SUCKS. Personally, I make it a point to tell my manager that I'm not going to work 16 hour shifts, but then again I work at a gas station.;-)
o Investigate getting a used parallel port 100Meg Zip drive. I successfully installed Win98 on an old laptop that had a floppy but no CDROM with one, by copying the CD install files over to the HD.
--I pretty much agree with you on all counts. (In fact, I walked out of a Fight Club DVD viewing when they revealed the "secret ingredient" of the soap. It just grossed me out too much.)
--Highlander 2 and 3 **NEVER HAPPENED**, kay?;-) The only ones that truly exist are the 1st one and the one with Adrian Paul.
--But seriously, the worst movies that come immediately to mind (I actually walked out of the theater and demanded my money back, or ejected the tape and returned it in disgust):
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Please return the Red Man's stapler... Kimosabe.
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*I* think there's a sympathetic Martian up there (Marvin, is that you?) holding a Squeegee and making faces at his mates behind the cameras.
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--Reminds me of an AC/DC song...
i stress+For+Christmas/
http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/AC%5EDC/Razors+Edge/M
--It's split up into 10 sections because otherwise the page would take FOREVER to load on dialup - that's 100 pics, pal.
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"Pull the other one, it has got bells on..." == Sergeant Detritus
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--He should consider bringing this fiasco to Mgmt's attention; it carries some risk but could be worthwhile.
--The trucking / hauling (CDL required) industry is always looking for people.
d riving101.com&ai=BUXbNaDm3QZm8EYrSaa_1vb8E1rn1BsDc wZIB0pGdhgGQgxkQARgBKAgwATgASLs5yAEB&num=1
http://www.cdl-course.com/index-il.html
http://www.google.com/url?sa=l&q=http://www.truck
--Believe me, I seriously considered it myself; and then was lucky enough to get a job at a gas station ~1 hour away from my house.
--Tell him to try applying over at OSDL...
http://www.osdl.org/about_osdl/jobs/
--Or maybe Transmeta... Or SuSE... Or even Red Hat...
[[ One company I worked for purchased some software from Tivoli. After 6 months, and a team of engineers onsite from the vendor, they still couldn't get the components to talk for more than a day without problems (after weeks of installation), and still couldn't get useful data out of the database due to its size, so we took our $500mil back and bought something else.
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--Out of curiosity, what did you buy to replace it?
--"In related news: Alex Trebek fell to his knees, wept for joy, kissed his producer on the lips, and drove willy-nilly out of town for a long vacation, after first picking up a midget hooker (http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00002771.HTML) and enticing her to join him for the ride."
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BOFH: http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
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--That, and you NEED to be able to take TIME OFF from work to recover your sanity. Motorcycling helps. Martial arts may help. Spongebob might even help.
--And if all else fails, get the Hell out of your current job and try something different - don't wait until it's too late.
( BTW, this is using the latest vanilla kernel 2.6.9, so backlevelling the driver to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run doesn't work! )
--Tell me about it. Up till now I haven't had a problem, but their latest Linux driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run ) breaks compat with my PCI TNT2 (Guillemot) card. X freezes so hard that you have to reboot to get the display back. SSH still works however; but there is a huge slowdown on all processes, even during ' reboot '.
--I'm about to yank teh stupid card out and just use the mobo Intel at this point; Nvidia's driver has been broken since November 5!
Parent +1 Insightful...
;-)
--HOWEVER... The **hard** part is getting **everyone** to buy into the idea of walking out, much less doing this at the same time. Mass revolt would be a very good idea, but:
1. They should have done it a long time ago
2. Doing it NOW probably wouldn't change much (but if I were them, I'd definitely walk out en masse.)
--Bottom line, what EA is doing SUCKS. Personally, I make it a point to tell my manager that I'm not going to work 16 hour shifts, but then again I work at a gas station.
--You can HUM?! Luxury! The only music I listen to these days are the random songs running thru my head!
"Whatever happened to Mary?" - Chumbawamba
--Any more info / helpful link??
> Euler's Formula is breast milk??
...and Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!
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...yeah, and get hurricaned to death...
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"Mass hysteria!"
"Yes, Mister Mayor, it's true - this man... has... no balls."
--Some suggestions:
l s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=244974&CatId=81
o Try putting the laptop hard drive in another computer:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
o Investigate getting a used parallel port 100Meg Zip drive. I successfully installed Win98 on an old laptop that had a floppy but no CDROM with one, by copying the CD install files over to the HD.
HTH.
--I pretty much agree with you on all counts. (In fact, I walked out of a Fight Club DVD viewing when they revealed the "secret ingredient" of the soap. It just grossed me out too much.)
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--What did you think about "From Dusk Til Dawn"? I happened to like that one.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0116367/
http://hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=21
--That infoworld "article" has the worst page layout I've ever seen. What happened to putting in "Page 1 ... > Next / Previous" links?
> I can't imagine that XP has gotten to be that much of a hog.
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--Want to bet?
--Here's a link that might interest you, in reward for not posting anon:
i n-fahrenheit-911.htm It basically goes thru the film and points out where Moore was deliberately including falsehoods.
http://www.davekopel.com/terror/fiftysix-deceits-
--Highlander 2 and 3 **NEVER HAPPENED**, kay? ;-) The only ones that truly exist are the 1st one and the one with Adrian Paul.
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--But seriously, the worst movies that come immediately to mind (I actually walked out of the theater and demanded my money back, or ejected the tape and returned it in disgust):
The Avengers http://imdb.com/title/tt0118661/
Bicentennial Man http://imdb.com/title/tt0182789/
Dreamcatcher
Godsend
The Stupids http://imdb.com/title/tt0117768/
House of the Dead http://imdb.com/title/tt0317676/
--Truly bad but I stayed to the end anyway:
o Battlefield Earth
o Caddyshack 2 (that was torture by an old GF)
--Heard that it was so bad, that I stopped wanting to see it and never went:
o Catwoman
o The Village
--KNEW that it was so bad that I wouldn't waste my money:
o Master of Disguise
o The Cat in the Hat
o Dumb and Dumberer
--And finally:
Star Wars 2 - Attack of the Clones == It was so awful that after seeing it once, I vowed to never see it again if I could help it.
--Geeze, I didn't realize the list was that long...