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Journal Chordonblue's Journal: Rabid Reflex posters 11

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I suppose this gripe will go out into the Ether and be ignored, but I feel compelled nonetheless to ask this question:

What is it about some of you posters out there that are always looking for a fight?

On several occasions I've made a simple, non-confrontational post here only to be ripped up one side and down the other by some poster over the most trivial of things.

Last week for instance it was the 3rd birthday of OpenOffice. In that post, I merely wished them a happy birthday, and that our school had been using OOo for over 3 years. Almost immediately I had a reply sneering that there should be more 'useless' posts like mine.

Actually, I thought it was on topic (Happy Birthday), and a tribute to the continuing success of OOo. What was so threatening to this anonymous poster about that?

Then today, I post about how Mozilla has been great to get around a proxy authentication problem - a problem Microsoft themselves admits exists for XP Home, and two guys immediately call me an idiot for not knowing how to set up ISA proxy properly!

I know it's easier to vent and to whine and to draw attention to yourself by 'going off' on someone else, but this is ridiculous. I shouldn't have to state it here but for the record I am an MCSE, and in fact I trained MCSEs some time ago before I came to Linden Hall. I've used MS Proxy Server in all it's incarnations (including the current ISA one), so it's not as if I don't have the experience.

And yet... For some reason I felt compelled to respond to these cretins - if not for the unjustness, then to expose them to the rest of the community as the idiots they are. Wasted breath.

't0ny' - one of the baiters, was a great of example of what raises my blood pressure. He could barely get a sentence out before lambasting me for not knowing my job or outright insulting me with epithets. Of course, no amount of arguing that point over the Internet will prove anything definitively, but I'd like to think I put him in his place.

I understand how some people can be hyper-vigilent about how they do their jobs. To some degree I'm that way myself. But I'm open to hearing what others do - if only to say, "Damn, I WON'T be doing THAT!", but at least I'm willing to consider that the other person is doing what is right for them and for their .org.

I've learned a lot about that since I've been at this school. You'd think a corporate network is a much harder thing to keep in line, but I have the experience to tell you the opposite is true. There are so many exceptions to the general rule in this environment that it makes making rules difficult. Flexibility is needed - a lot of it.

I guess not everyone can conceive of the need for that. Maybe that's another reason why I'll be staying out of faceless corporate networks.

Thanks for listening!

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  • just for the record, this poster is really, really ghey. Really.

    He, she, or it also claims to be an MSCE, but its people like her who really dilute the credential.

    Had anyone been privy to our discussion (of which I was ficticiously 'put in my place'), this moron was claiming it was a 'flaw' in XP Home that it cant join a domain.

    You can say it was a bad decision, or inconvenient, etc, but its hardly a flaw (especially when anyone with half a brain and an MCSE should know this already).

    So, this dork starts w

    • This guy 't0ny' certainly does qualify for the 'shit in his ears' award. He doesn't listen, then he comes on my journal to fuck with me some more. t0ny, you were put in your place when you found you were unable to defend your position in a reasoned manner and chose to attack me personally instead. At no time have you ever suggested another way to do what we do within our framework. I see that, once again, nothing's changed. No duck and cover here my friend, go fuck yourself.

      I'll explain it for the audience
      • t0ny, you were put in your place

        Please cite examples, because you are lying. The only one put in his place was you, because you dont know what you are doing. Then you try to get some passive-agressive justification by slamming me in your journal. Well haha, your journal can now be a testament to what a know-nothing paper MCSE you are.

        you were unable to defend your position in a reasoned manner

        Sorry for giving you the bitter pill. I was right, however, and thats all that really matters. Im not h

        • $75/hr? Man, you do work cheap, which confirms what I thought all along.

          No, I don't need you to solve my problems - even at your discount rate little man. The point of the argument really isn't so much my inability to get the job done efficiently, it's whether or not you have a CLUE as to how to do this yourself (as you claim to).

          Obviously you don't know because you are stalling. Put up or STFU. Example:

          "In the interests of making you look and feel like a complete and utter asshole, I am going to answer
          • $75/hr? Man, you do work cheap, which confirms what I thought all along.

            And you are obviously worth far, far less than that, since someone who can make around $150k per year knows more than you do... Yet another idiotic comment on your part- you need to stop making this so easy!

            Obviously you don't know because you are stalling. Put up or STFU. Example

            MORON. LOSER. Get this straight- I dont work for you. I dont have to answer your questions. I am not your mentor, nor am I giving you advice. If

            • ...stay out of my journal. Why did you come here in the first place? Are you this desperate for entertainment? I didn't ask for your opinion about the Mozilla thing, and I certainly don't need your abuse now.

              If you can't answer the questions THAT YOU RAISED IN THE FIRST PLACE by asserting your 'superior' intellect, why bother? I refuse to continue to be trolled by you - be constructive or be gone.

              • 1) I can post anywhere I want. And if you hadnt posted my name here, I wouldnt have felt compelled to post. Now everyone can see how your stupidity has "put me in my place", and what a moron and loser you really are. Nice Journal!

                2) I dont have to answer technical issues, wheter they have been raised by my statements or your questions. As I keep saying, if you want to pay me to solve your technical problems, that is fine. But Im not giving you advice for free.

                • Calling me moron and loser still doesn't explain why you can't answer a few simple technical questions. Remember, you were the one who started all this by asserting that I know nothing. I've done more than my share to explain what it is we do here and why and you've done nothing but bleat.

                  Why not own up and admit defeat?

                  • Calling me moron and loser still doesn't explain why you can't answer a few simple technical questions

                    There is a difference between answering a simple technical question and solving a real-world problem. Sorry, you cant troll me into solving your work problems for you. Not gonna happen, slick.

                    Remember, you were the one who started all this by asserting that I know nothing

                    Thats right. And I based it on the premise of your post; you stated that using an IE-alternative would correct a 'flaw' in Win

                    • Troll YOU? Heh. You're the one in MY journal. :)

                      You're mistake is in thinking that every network must be the same as what you've used in the past. It's been my experience that while there are best practices there is a sort of 'religion' about the fuzzy areas.

                      You don't like the way I'm doing things here, or are convinced that I'm doing it the wrong way. Fine. But then you offer no FACTS to back up your position so what's your point again?

                      Seriously, put up or shut up.
                    • You're mistake is in thinking that every network must be the same as what you've used in the past. It's been my experience that while there are best practices there is a sort of 'religion' about the fuzzy areas.

                      Ive worked on so many different networks and topologies Ive lost count. I guarantee you arent doing something so revolutionary that standard best practices and programatical limits need to be ignored.

                      This is the typical dodge of people who dont know what they are doing: they want everyone to th

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