Yeah, I worked at one of the big dot-coms just as things started to sour. After layoffs I would grab another techie, wander from floor to floor and grab all the higher end PC's that belong to the fired persons. Nobody ever questioned what happened to them. I hade a sweet sweet cluster for about two months. Then I quit before the axe came for me.
First of all, I want to point out that American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
well, hell, you have to start somewhere. When i first installed linux in college it was a stock install from red hat, i did not know shit about linux or unix, and wanted to learn. someone 0wn3d me three days later (thanks sendmail!). everyone was an amateur once...
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all your (data)base are belong to us!
there i said it, i know its japanese but it had to be said.
how do your say 'Did you install the latest service packs?' in taiwanese?
Yeah, I worked at one of the big dot-coms just as things started to sour. After layoffs I would grab another techie, wander from floor to floor and grab all the higher end PC's that belong to the fired persons. Nobody ever questioned what happened to them. I hade a sweet sweet cluster for about two months. Then I quit before the axe came for me.
or is it copyrighted too?
Does this cover all the naked pictures of Hilary Rosen on my hard drive too?
Any upper level CompSci students running windows should be hazed by a penguin.
snapdragons?
badda bing!
they need the computing power to figure out a better school mascot. theirs is so Hokie!
did anybody else notice these lines:
Meanwhile, Aeneas CIO and Operations Manager Josh Hart..
'It doesn't even look like there was an office here,'" remembers Hart, 25.
Aeneas launched its contingency plan when it was founded in 1996; since then, CIO Hart has enhanced the strategy gradually almost every year.
Seems to have gone unnoticed that this guy founded the company at 18...before the dot com boom!
Everybody knows the proper way to hack an election is legally through the Supreme Court, not with computers, duh.
Those guys in the IT room. Naked.
So im wondering who can I sue about this? NASA?
yes, but can it automatically flip the bird to that !@&#^$ who stole the spot from you, because is impolite car was made in the usa?
actually to the average slashdotter it sounds like a fairly happening place.
Because FreeBSD has a devil for it's mascot so naturally most people think it is affiliated with Microsoft.
"Discount retailing's a tight business, and we're wicked cheap," explains Burlington Coat Factory CIO Mike Prince
I take it that's Burlington, Massachusetts?
Why would they? Those guys only sold a handful of Segways. I hardly call that an industry.
First of all, I want to point out that American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
Yeah those 7 guys were real assholes.
hell, make em a gift to everyone, its a gift to you as well.
yes, no, maybe.
computer would have an answer to everything, maybe.
actually in the time since ive moved to FreeBSD ;)
uh-oh they are getting their revenue advice from Oracle!
I remember the scene where they found the water like alien to be amazing, this was 1989.
well, hell, you have to start somewhere. When i first installed linux in college it was a stock install from red hat, i did not know shit about linux or unix, and wanted to learn. someone 0wn3d me three days later (thanks sendmail!). everyone was an amateur once...
To defeat Gates, Scott McNealy has finally made a deal with the devil..er..daemon..