In all this (moronically) continuing out-sourcing hoopla, I have this to say:
I've called Veritas at 3 am EST and spoken to someone in India on no fewer than four occasions. Those four occasions are numbers one through four in my “best tech support experiences ever” list.
If Indian citizens can do the job better and are [...]
I've heard certain of you (and I'm looking at you here, ) that, though you mostly prefer a Unix command shell to a DOS prompt, you kind of miss the parsing of * that happened under DOS (for instance, mv *.txt *.htm moved all the .txt files to <same thing>.htm–or whatever DOS uses that means [...]
Got back from vacation, and one of the ports on the shitty Linksys switch they gave me for my cube was blown, meaning that I couldn't both see Outlook and do what I needed to do today. (It's 5-port switch. Port 5 was the uplink, 1 was the NetBSD workstation, 2 was the printer for [...]
This makes baby Jesus cry.
And it supports my theory that, money be damned, fools and their secret keys are soon parted.
<seanius> somebody's out of the job this afternoon
<seanius> so much for cisco and their self-defending, self-repairing networks
Note: It's back up now, of course.
Why is this still a problem now:
sieve:/etc/profile.d# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
if it was reported nearly a year ago in the previous release version of your software?
Fuck you all anyway. I'm setting LANG=C. The hell with your UTF horseshit.
<> god dammit, who keeps bending my internet hose
<> it's me
<> ha ha
<> I got shit to say yo
<> you guys should have seen it, ogw looked into his T1 and I unbent it and he got internet all over his face
<> I should have suspected
<> obviously your contacts at AOL are serving you well
<> [...]
Dogging.
Look, if you're smart enough to organize a meeting with complete strangers on the Internet, but you're too dumb to use protection when having sex with those strangers, you're a fucking moron, and I want you out of the gene pool anyway.
A party who prefers to remain anonymous points out that Google appears to be toying with a new interface:
(Link goes to a full-window screenshot.)
Note that you won't see this if you go to Google now; the anonymous party noted that these changes disappeared with the clearing of cookies.
iPod Used In Domestic Homicide
According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about 2,000 of her MP3s. Mathers complained that it took 3 months to build her music collection.
That's just too easy…
Ganked from .
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