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I was born a yak in tibet, but then I died. However, I was a good yak by way of "yakness" and therefore I was reborn a boy-child. At some point in my life I did something very, very bad, because now I use Windows and also work with it for a living. This means I am free tech-support for all my family and close friends. Except for one friend, who suddenly decided to learn about computers himself and after a few months knew more than me -- well, he thought he did anyhow. He really screwed up his system and wept, so now, he does know more cuz pain brings growth. Praise pain! Fark that ship.... Hrm, I wonder when I'll run out of characters? Or, as /. calls them, "chars." Maybe they ran out of characters too.... Hey, I thought of this funny slogan: News for nerds, stuff that shatters. You saw it here 1st folks! 1/13/2005! Watch the admins edit that date and steal it! I bet that new slogan will earn someone $100+ a month in google ads.... Still got characters? Don't know. Typing.
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I was born a yak in tibet, but then I died. However, I was a good yak by way of "yakness" and therefore I was reborn a boy-child. At some point in my life I did something very, very bad, because now I use Windows and also work with it for a living. This means I am free tech-support for all my family and close friends. Except for one friend, who suddenly decided to learn about computers himself and after a few months knew more than me -- well, he thought he did anyhow. He really screwed up his system and wept, so now, he does know more cuz pain brings growth. Praise pain! Fark that ship.... Hrm, I wonder when I'll run out of characters? Or, as
The Next/Next Admins
Friday December 10 2004, @08:43AM
MS is guilty of making the "next/next/next/finish" administrators who don't know wtf they're doing. MS, with this proliferation of "dumb" admins (yes, I called them dumb cuz they are) are what have provided the world with a very nice DDoS farm waiting to receive such things as codered. That thing will never go away cuz there are still boxes out there on the public network that are unpatched cuz the next/next admins don't even realize they're running an IIS server!!! This is a mind-boggling fact. The MS "Options Pack" CD (or whatever it was called) for NT4 server came ready to go with IIS and one had to do little more than next/next/finish their way through setting it up, and voila! a webserver you don't even realize is running (btw, everything has a friggin webserver on it these don't it?). Administration should be hard (are you listening microsoft?), and the fact that Microsoft has both dumbed it down and then built an insecure OS riddled with holes and wherein everything is connected to everything (MSTD) has created this cacaphony. We patch, we AV protect, we do it all to still have our large switches about once a year peg out at 100% (network goes down) cuz of some new worm broadcasting to the world, and it's due to the root-assumption of windows that they're just now trying to do something about (omg, i gotta stop cuz I'm gonna rant, ramble and roll).
Second and final point I want to make, is after considering all of the above, you then have to consider the fact that microsoft is an incredible PR machine/marketing machine. They control so much spin, and most upper IT managers get their talking points from these microsoft influenced "CIO Magazine" type crap. So, we little guys in the trenches meet with the big guys who already know what the "truth" is as microsoft has spun it. Thus, Linux is indeed not free, Firefox will be JUST AS BAD as IE once enough people use it, and Squirrelmail isn't really an email server cuz no real email server would be called "Squirrelmail."
My one haven is Dilbert. Dilbert isn't funny. It's a religious experience....
Second and final point I want to make, is after considering all of the above, you then have to consider the fact that microsoft is an incredible PR machine/marketing machine. They control so much spin, and most upper IT managers get their talking points from these microsoft influenced "CIO Magazine" type crap. So, we little guys in the trenches meet with the big guys who already know what the "truth" is as microsoft has spun it. Thus, Linux is indeed not free, Firefox will be JUST AS BAD as IE once enough people use it, and Squirrelmail isn't really an email server cuz no real email server would be called "Squirrelmail."
My one haven is Dilbert. Dilbert isn't funny. It's a religious experience....
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