Post #232,778
11/7/05 1:00:19 PM
11/7/05 1:10:14 PM
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My old www.aaxnet.com articles are still getting comments
This one is particularly fun.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:08:01 -0500, DAWN ****** wrote:
>I'm sorry to say that your pages are so one-sided, full of spite, and
>hateful, that I cannot imagine anyone taking the time to return. I am
>repulsed to realize I even found this site.
>
>I can only see that you are to Microsoft what Michael Moore is
>to George Bush - arrogant - so full of your own 1960's conspiracy-
>driven liberalism as to make any education you might have appear
>to be bought, rather than earned. I cannot imagine you have learned
>anything in your years other than to believe what you say is gospel
>and that those who succeed must have stolen it.
>
>I'm sorry to see a company like yours exists - it's sad that we
>have people like you around. I pity you and your crew.
>
>Regretfully,
>Dave ******
Dear Dawn or Dave:
Wow! You believe in Microsoft and the NeoCons too? Cool!
Do you live in a Red State too?
If I were to write the stuff you read today, it would be a bit
different because Microsoft is now a stumbling giant up against
real competition for the first time in their history and all their major
projects are bogged down, late and threatened with failure (and the
NeoCons are bogged down in an Iraqi war that was supposed to
be over in three weeks).
I have been in this business since 1979 and watched the things
Microsoft did and the way they did them first-hand - I presume
you did not. They have consistently spent over a quarter billion
dollars a year on public relations alone to assure people like you
think as you do. Money well spent, I must say.
FYI, commentary on my articles has run about 200 to 1 favorable
with about 1/2 million visits overall, so your dissent is a welcome
change of pace.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #232,783
11/7/05 1:12:27 PM
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You forgot to ask: What part of it is factually incorrect?
Hell, after letting us go through everything there aren't even typos left.
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Post #232,784
11/7/05 1:16:21 PM
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I doubt facts and correctness are considerations here.
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Post #232,809
11/7/05 2:46:10 PM
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Why start now
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Post #232,926
11/7/05 8:38:54 PM
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/me chuckles...
thanks, needed the laugh!
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Post #232,960
11/8/05 8:26:10 AM
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*smile* Howdy!
Howzitgoing?
-Skip
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #233,594
11/11/05 3:44:00 PM
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dreaming of...
...napping. Busy days here, but keeping it going.
You still doing iSeries work?
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Post #233,598
11/11/05 4:03:00 PM
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Yup
Sysadmin+ for an insurance company down in Atlanta. There's still work here!
They let me create my own job description; the pay's a little less, but so are the bills. I miss my friends, but I'm (slowly) making new ones, and I still visit back home (heck, some of my friends see me more now that I live here than when I was poor in NJ!).
All in all, life is pretty sweet right now (*knocks wood*).
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #233,639
11/11/05 7:56:09 PM
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Sounds good...
....I can relate to missing friends. Glad things are going well for you!
Quick question...have you tried to bring up Mambo on PASE? Know anyone
who has done this?
Best,
Slugbug
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Post #233,733
11/12/05 8:58:36 AM
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No... :-P
One of my hats is change control, for Sarbanes I built an elaborate set of auditing tools that run nightly, all changes being related back to our in-house help/systems request system. We did this to satisfy our SOx auditors; bottom line is that nothing gets installed on the '400 unless it has been requested and logged. IOW, I can't PLAY! (*snicker* Well, it's harder anyway). All this because we only have one '400 (OK, iSeries, my age is showing) and all our data lives there.
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #233,734
11/12/05 9:14:02 AM
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Can't you create an isolated partition?
And use it for R&D?
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Post #233,738
11/12/05 9:38:55 AM
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I'd like to.
Nd I'm trying to sell him on a larger box just for that purpose right now. The guys we deal with are driving me crazy, though. Why should I have to nag salesmen for pricing and marketing info?
GAHHHHHH!
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #233,740
11/12/05 9:43:27 AM
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It's not just IT where you have to nag these days... :-(
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Post #233,791
11/12/05 4:54:15 PM
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IBM is HORRIBLE at giving pricing and configuration
It seems they kept on pushing it out to give me a little time as possible to make a decision.
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Post #233,798
11/12/05 5:35:17 PM
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They know what will happen as soon as they give you a quote.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #233,803
11/12/05 6:01:49 PM
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Definitely a possibility...
My boss would like to see everything ported to SQL Server and VB.net, though - not that that is going to happen, but this leaves him disinclined to just write checks to IBM anyway - such a tactic is not likely to work :-P
[link|http://www.runningworks.com|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #233,765
11/12/05 11:38:18 AM
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can relate..
...difficult to get resources these days. I do have a sandbox which is
idling so I thought I'd give it a go. A geek has to have some fun...
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Post #233,604
11/11/05 4:35:47 PM
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Take it easy from time to time...
If you wind up dreaming of a nap during a nap, that's your body trying to tell you something.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #233,640
11/11/05 8:02:37 PM
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Heh...point taken.
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Post #233,099
11/8/05 9:35:59 PM
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I've exchanged a couple emails with this guy.
He appologized for not noticing the 250 links to supporting evidence. He said the article looked to him so biased and one sided he just presumed it was all just my opinion and stuff I made up.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #233,101
11/8/05 10:21:53 PM
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Cool
Did he change his mind about the goodness of Windows?
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Post #233,107
11/8/05 11:05:40 PM
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There's Goodness in Windows? An oxymoron if I ever saw one.
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Post #233,156
11/9/05 4:19:23 AM
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The goodness is: It drives people to Mac & Linux :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #233,166
11/9/05 7:57:09 AM
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Very few, unfortunately. The rest put up with it.
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Post #233,174
11/9/05 9:23:55 AM
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More and more everyday
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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