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Re: The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced

vanjab — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:01:44 -0000

Thanks for the article. I’d love to hear more about your outsourcing adventures - preferably the successful ones that I could apply to my life.

Re: Challenged

vanjab — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:03:16 -0000

Comment 19 comes from a future where Xorg and samba configuration files must not exist:
"Since you have already addressed some differences between Linux and Windows, allow me to point out a difference between their users. Linux users spend most of their time using their computers, while Windows users spend most of their time and money trying to make their computers usable."

Re: Challenged

vanjab — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:00:38 -0000

If you look at one of the earlier posts, you'll see that distrowatch is merely a tracker of click-throughs on its website.

52 million is a really fucking big number.

Re: Challenged

vanjab — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:58:13 -0000

100% agree. I started reading this blog simply because I was impressed at the mix of hate and knowledge in the Linux X Graphics article.

Re: Rants and Laughs

vanjab — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:23:08 -0000

from: Free means no soda (http://blog.seattlepi.nwsou...
"Posted by unregistered user at 2/8/08 9:03 p.m.

I understand the reason most would not make their software/OS open source but considering what a fiasco Vista is - releasing the source code to the public might be the only way MS will get talented programmers to fix all the slow performance issues of Vista."

This is the funniest comment I have read on the planet. The keyword is "talented".

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:45:15 -0000

You're confusing 'can't figure out' with 'care'. Why not just stream the file to a real media player with samba/nfs/ftp?

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:04:14 -0000

Management can ask them to leave and they have to leave. If they don't leave, then you can involve the police.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:03:39 -0000

Yeah I've been using Media player classic, home cinema.
Its not perfect by any means, but it has a lot of features i need/want.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:05:35 -0000

What a surprise, you hate restrictions. How about doing something other than harassing tech support staff who can do nothing about it. I realise you have to show your nerd-peen to SOMEONE, but a lowly tech support guy is NOT the person for it.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:02:18 -0000

Terrorist is definitely overkill.

That website almost makes me wish I worked in Apple Tech Support (Crazy I know...) so I could slap the tool audacious enough to bring that crap in.
Don't harass the staff by showing off your inner nerd, they're just trying to work damnit.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:59:19 -0000

Wdup soon-to-be-failing-video-card-mbp brother! :D

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:58:09 -0000

Ha Ha Ha that's great. I almost missed the username.
Poor guy.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:55:31 -0000

VLC is utter sheit. Only thing its good for is being a single package for the less clued in computer users.

For anyone else, I recommend making use of the DirectShow architecture and installing ffdshow so that ALL your programs will support ALL the codecs.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:49:27 -0000

I think he's trying to say that gimp has been over marketed. Clearly photoshop is a better product, but marketing doesn't think that can stop them.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:34:57 -0000

Compiling things by source is annoying, but portage is totally worth it.
Solves binary incompatibility problems too I guess.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver.4

vanjab — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:30:35 -0000

Its not a complete failure, digg loves ubuntu, and it seems to have standardised the 'goto' distribution for recommending to people who shouldn't be running linux in the first place.

You can tell the marketers they hire aren't part of FOSS...

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver. 3

vanjab — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:15:01 -0000

OpenOffice is the ugliest thing on the planet, god I hope it dies a painful death.

I love the way the sharms.org guy used the US economy in a "It doesn't work because you don't need it [quicken]" argument.