The contracting agency gave me a new fancy title, "Senior Systems Administrator," based on 18 years of I.T. experience, when they renewed my contract. I pointed out that a Senior Systems Admin in Silicon Valley makes $40K more per year than what I'm getting paid now. I heard their frown all the way from the East Coast on my raise request. Didn't help that the company I'm assigned to gave me server access to fix a blotched printer migration.

I don't torrent. Not then, not now. I'm just repeating what a bunch of AC's told me back then why they were upset because I revealed the series finale.

Next month Microsoft will probably introduce a .NET patch with the version number 4.6.0.1702 to fix all the bugs introduced with update version 4.6.0.0000 this month. I feel sorry that you can't tell the difference between an update (new features and previous bug fixes) and a patch (new bug fixes), or understand that a system can have multiple versions of .NET (i.e., versions 1.x, 2.x, 3.x and 4) to support legacy applications. Thanks to Microsoft (Windows/Office), Adobe (Acrobat/Flash/Reader), and Oracle (Java), I got job security because these applications all require a steady stream of updates and patches that don't always install automatically and/or correctly the first time. That's why I'm a professional, you're not.

Last episode of Battlestar Galactica was in 2009. Illegal copies over the net took a while longer to circulate back then. The AC's told me that they were waiting to watch the final episode illegally, as they couldn't afford cable TV or the $1.99 per episode fee on Amazon//iTunes.

From Scully's bedroom, wearing pink robes and slippers.

A bunch of AC's chewed me out on /. for revealing the ending of the Battlestar Galactica TV series (remake) in a comment two weeks after the series finale. They were still waiting for an illegal copy of the final episodes to become available on the Internet. Silly pricks.

My job at my company is to look at the patch report and figure out why the patches aren't going through for 80,000+ systems. The last set of patches holding everything up is typically a set of .NET patches for the one, two, three or four versions of .NET installed on each system. That's an additional 15 minutes on my part to remote in and manually install the .NET patches on each system. Your point is not only off topic but also wrong.

The schools have no problem building brand new football fields, which is a higher priority than class size and supplies. Your tax dollars at work.

His obvious mistake was going for the jackpot. If he rigged it for smaller payouts under $500 over a long period of time, he might have escaped detection. Big numbers attract attention, smaller numbers seldom do.

Try 30 years ago when all you could see from the side of the road was a sea of cattle. The smell was suffocating and the summer heat was oppressive, especially with the windows rolled up, the AC in the car not working and 55MPH was the speed limit. Today we have more techies than cattle to drop cow pies.

Microsoft routinely releases patches for various versions (1.x through 4.x) of .NET that are installed on your system.

Nope. You responded to my comment to an AC responding to mightMartain.troll. Hence, you hijacked my thread.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7713693&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=50148259

You're the one who hijacked my thread. Pat yourself on the back.

Being California, it's apricot.

Maybe 30 years ago. I can drive to Stockton with the car windows open on I-5 without ever smelling a freshly made cow pie.