[kj] mac/win no win

[ade]

BOFH is classic ;)

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 05 February 2008 05:26
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
Subject: Re: [kj] mac/win no win



There's a legendary blog type thing, some of you will have heard of it, called the Bastard Operator From Hell, about an IT (UNIX) systems administrator working in London I think, back in the day. Written by a Kiwi guy called Simon Travaglia, it's actually bloody funny, gets right into the character of the arrogant, lazy, manipulative, downright evil IT guy:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_operator_from_hell

 

http://members.iinet.com.au/~bofh/index.html

 

 

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of ade
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2008 9:30 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] mac/win no win

 

The self-importance from some cunts amazes me. One thing we can thank MS for is breaking open

the whole support market - before then, it was seriously in the hands of the *NIX elite. Of course, it's

gone too far, such that Business types think they can fix stuff themselves & order techies around.

Oh & pay half as much to teenagers, not thinking that said teenager realises they're on the bottom

rung & the only way is up... short-sightedness & quick fixes rule the day!

 

I've had MUCH more shit off London "I'm very important" business types than I have off techies. Oh &

middle management SCUM !!!!!!!!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 04 February 2008 07:03
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
Subject: Re: [kj] mac/win no win

I tell you what, working in IT for 8 years...what a thankless job. The personalities I've had to deal with...for Christ's sake. There's something to be said for emotional intelligence, sense of perspective, chilling the fuck out, whatever you want to call it. The amount of sysadmins and above (below even!) who think they are lightning-eyed titans of technology...come on. Subnetting is about as difficult as it gets for the vast majority of them, try something like getting a masters in physics, or speaking 6 languages, or becoming a decent programmer, then I'll give you props for being a superbrain. 

 

Until then, shut the fuck up and make yourself useful, hook the coffee machine up to the network or put a webcam under the hot marketing chick's desk or something... 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of ade
Sent: Monday, 4 February 2008 10:06 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] mac/win no win

 

Abso-fucking-lutely mate - tools for the job, not a religion ;)

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of fatpotanga
Sent: 03 February 2008 20:28
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] mac/win no win
Importance: High

ha ha

nicely put.

 

my philosophy is yes, you can use the arse end of a screwdriver to knock in a nail, but it's much better to use a hammer.

 

 

 

On 3 Feb 2008, at 17:51, ade wrote:

 

Nice one Brenda - I've become SO tired of Windows bitching that I almost stick up for it these days. As if anyone other than CrApple has come up with a functionally competitive desktop OS. The snobbery from Apple fans makes me sick & frankly I've heard it all before: Spectrum v/s CBM 64, Amiga v/s Atari ST, etc, etc, YAWN. Anyway, you can get a hooky copy of Winders, stick it on second-hand hardware & you have a computer, with which you can publish content to the web - in my mind that's far more 'undergroud' or creative than having to fork out for some fancy CrApple toy. Still, the snobs won't see it. Just because someone uses Winders doesn't mean they love MS !!!!!!  As if Apple aren't a vile corporation too !!!!

 

Massively entertaining is the endless arguments for & against Winders & CrApple OS. Oh, my CPU is better than your CPU - no it ain't, not anymore you smug fucks!!!! UNIX is shit, oh, erm, that's what OSX is. Oops...

 

In fact, didn't CrApple invent EVERYTHING???  That's what their evangelists would have everyone believe. They, of course, invented the GUI, MP3 players & anything else you can think of. Oh & of course, CrApple products are 'right on', so are left-wing friendly. I love the hipocrisy!!!!!

 

Linux? Good server, but really, not flexible enough at the desktop & not enough device support. Ubuntu seems to be popular - I guess they're all ok as long as you don't use a device that there's no driver for. If I had to use a *NIX derivitive, I'd go for FreeBSD. Likely without a gui though. In fact, isn't the underlying *NIX part of OSX a port of BSD?

 



 

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