Comment First use noted: Geist sites unreachable! (Score 4, Funny) 184
Can't reach _any_ Michael Geist sites (from either my cable and DSL conns). Coincidence? I think not!!!
Can't reach _any_ Michael Geist sites (from either my cable and DSL conns). Coincidence? I think not!!!
No shit. I just recycled a massive collection of manuals that I found (forgot) in the basement - DOS, SCO Unix 3.2, Turbo C + Pascal, etc. Talk about documentation. Out of this world! Microsoft used to be awesome, but Borland was king!
Now you drop 5 large for a server OS, and get a DVD with half-baked PDFs (or CHMs, even worse) for reference and that's it. Oh, you want API docs. Pay your subscription here. Oh, you wanted _accurate_ docs, well.... Maybe the EU has them
Times have certainly changed. Now if you want documentation for a friggin' LANGUAGE you need to BUY it separately. Never saw that one coming...
Thank gawd I'm a child of the 70's: free sex, free (mostly) drugs, and free docs!!!
It worked like a friggin' charm every time. And we'd gang up on the poor hapless PHB. A senior IT guy would walk in, ready to FIX THE PROBLEM. The first thing he'd ask for was a status update. We'd invariably respond with "Well, it's a D2 right now, but we're still looking into it", and he'd quickly bump it up to a "D3". Then we'd go for a nice extended lunch, and the PHB would be left scratching his head wondering where all his clout had evaporated to.
Fuck, I loved IT before it all caved in and we became computer janitors."Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant