Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: ISP

  • Technical Support

    I try not to be a technical support ass. Since my job is to do and work with tech support, for me to be one of those customers who are rude or really stupid would be counter productive. Normally I am able to work my way through problems. I only call upon technical support when…

  • Efficient Dispute Management

    Have I said before that I like news from the state of Florida? Order of the court – Jun. 7, 2006 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location of a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition (Doc. 105). Upon consideration of the Motion – the latest in a series of Gordian knots that…

  • game of “rock, paper, scissors”

    Have I said before that I like news from the state of Florida? Order of the court – Jun. 7, 2006 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion to designate location of a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition (Doc. 105). Upon consideration of the Motion – the latest in a series of Gordian knots that…

  • Crowdsourcing

    I am glad industries outside the computer-related realm are picking up what open source has known for a long time: Value can come from those who have not had to go through a job interview process to attach to a project. The power of the Internet is to facilitate communication. Wired 14.06: The Rise of…

  • ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat

    Who knew the ATF was full of pirates? Always picking on the poor ninjas. redandblack.com – ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.

  • Crashed Linux

    Crashed Linux, originally uploaded by milliped. From the site: Everyone is familiar with blue-screening kiosks and travel information displays, but this one was pretty new to me. The route display on this Air Algerie Airbus a330 was visibly experiencing some disk issues. (They rebooted the aircraft in midair, everything was fine after).

  • Your Next Keyboard?

    This Optimus keyboard looks tight. Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment. Perfect for those people who need to look at the keyboard! It has a Sun keyboard style of a block of 10 keys on the left. Very nice.