The Most Famous Geek in IT 533
Gushi writes "I want this guy to come work for us. He's famous. He's been everywhere. And he may not even know it.
He knows about Windows Mail Servers and all about
Open-Source Management Software as well as plenty about
the intricacies of SCO server authentication.
I want him to come join our team."
Sadly I have a job (Score:5, Funny)
Violet laser beams... (Score:5, Funny)
I KNOW that guy... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sadly I have a job (Score:5, Funny)
Subliminal Message (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS. (Score:5, Funny)
This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
Who? (Score:5, Funny)
What this really means is... (Score:5, Funny)
page view
- cnb
Talk to the Foot (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sadly I have a job (Score:5, Funny)
Tourist Guy (Score:3, Funny)
it comes this..! (Score:5, Funny)
It seemed like someone was stupid for a minute there and forgot his name...
Anybody got any ideas on what his name is?
My bets on Joe.
as in Shmoe.
It seems at Ipswitch his photo id name is
messaging.jpg.
Whereas at Plesk he is Mr. productPhoto.jpg.
Then over at SCO is the auth_guy.jpg.
All Hail AUTH_GUY!
He must a transvestite then if SCO is calling him an authentic guy. (No offense to the transvestite reading population, just seems to fit as far as SCO lying goes.)
Hmm. Anybody know his true identity?
sig shmig
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is quite an acheivement in and of itself.
KFG
Re:Violet laser beams... (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe he started life on a redhat photo shoot? Maybe, just MAYBE redhat actually have copyright on that photo and can add winging off with it to their list of "shit we're going to kick SCO's arses for".
Dave
Re:News for retards (Score:5, Funny)
He also has Superhuman Powers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What this really means is... (Score:4, Funny)
IPSwitch and Plesk now have to pay SCO $699 per page view
Close. But, according to SCO's logic, every veiwer has to pay them $699 per page view. All viwers are otherwise liable for copyright infringement. Well, thats for viewers who viewed the page with one eye. Those who used two eyes have to pay $1399. Those with three eyes.... uhm, never mind.
SCO hiding something... (Score:1, Funny)
Notice how the SCO version has been badly retouched with a black stripe across the guys t-shirt?
They're hiding something... My guess is that he is wearing a Tux t-shirt...
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sco has airbrushed his RED HAT out (Score:3, Funny)
I noticed that.. So did my wife who laughed at it, even she got the joke
Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry ladies, but if this guy exists he probably plays for the other side.
Re:it comes this..! (Score:1, Funny)
I have to click??? (Score:3, Funny)
A Red Hat (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe he'll pop up everywhere like Bert [wired.com] did for a while.
This is an old one ... KopyKat Kompanies ? (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8
"It it's good, why change it"
Re:What this really means is... (Score:1, Funny)
SCO had the Red Hat in a previous version (Score:1, Funny)
It seems they photoshopped it later.. go figure, heh
He's been everywhere... (Score:0, Funny)
And now he's an expert in Slashcode too.
Re:no Red Hat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:no Red Hat (Score:5, Funny)
Intern: "Uh, sir, what should I do with this red hat here?"
Mr. Turd McShitforbrains (VP): "Erm... mmm."
* stares at screen *
Mr. T McS: "OK, uh, select a black airbrush, 80%, multiply. Just sort of let it hover over the hat, AND THEN MAKE A DIAGONAL LINE THROUGH HIS SHIRT."
Intern: "Like this?"
* looks at result *
Mr. T McS: "Ohhh yeah"
* pantomimes driving a golf ball *
Mr. T McS: "Good work -- you've been promoted to the litigations squad."
He's not alone (Score:2, Funny)
He's sold everything from headphones to music to any sale that could be considered shocking. I want to shake his hand.
Actor (Score:2, Funny)
That makes him just like most of the management at the place I work at come to think of it.
Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)
Is that you in disguise Mr Berners-Lee? 'Cause that's the only way you could have been surfing the web way back in 1988, and then only in your head, seeing as you didn't publish the protocol proposal until 1989
John (who remembers the excitement at uni in early '93 when the sys-admins first installed Mosaic alpha for general use and everyone tried hitting it's homepage at once. God, it crawled, give me archie anyday...).
Seems like... (Score:1, Funny)
sig
I thought... (Score:3, Funny)
The most famous geek in the world was Milo Hoffman [imdb.com]!
Stephen
Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh course I am 46, don't have a job, live in my mother's basement and read Slashdot, sometimes several times a day.
Does that mean I still get to use the secret handshake?
KFG
Famous faces (Score:5, Funny)
As it happens, the company I work for (www.rackspace.com) uses real pictures of it's employees in it's webpages & ad art. This becomes very amusing when somebody else thinks the pictures are stock clipart and poaches them for their own site. There's one pic of a guy plugging in some network cables that has wound up everywhere, including on the websites of several of Rackspace's competitors. The amusing part is that the guy in the photo is actaually one of the founders of our company!
Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft?
DT
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
(BTW, kudos on a successfull "You insensitive clod" post without the actual "insensitive clod" part.
Re:Funny... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, I think you are right. This guy definately looks like someone who would have a "my minivan" section on his web site.
Re:it comes this..! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Describe this "discontinuous use of slashdot" idea, it intrigues me.
Re:Dupe comment (Score:4, Funny)
Re:News for retards (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Funny... (Score:3, Funny)
He drives a frickin Mini-Van [gushi.org] !!!
He said he made an "investment" into it.
Hey buddy, I have a few investment bridges that you may also want to look into.
SMACK
Re:What this really means is... (Score:0, Funny)
To charge by number of hands, fingers, or number of braille dots? Such a hard decision.
He's a University Geek to (Score:4, Funny)
(Laugh, it's a joke -m aybe they are accredited, I have no clue!)
Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)
Should have previewed
I know his sister... (Score:5, Funny)
See old Slashdot article [slashdot.org]
Guy must need a job too... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Famous faces (Score:3, Funny)
SCO sues Photodisc for copyright infringement (Score:5, Funny)
In associated news Wall Street analyst Tom Wolfe of Morgan Stanley greeted the news by raising the rating on SCO from "Buy" to a "Strong Buy". SCO's shares are now trading up +$3.25.
WTC tourist guy (Score:3, Funny)
He seems to be the antithesis of This guy [about.com].
Re:Who? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I know his sister... (Score:3, Funny)
How long before . . . (Score:2, Funny)
. . . this guy shows up on websites that:
Umm...no. (Score:5, Funny)
-buf
Re:Who? (Score:2, Funny)
The real question: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And here comes his sister, the most famous fema (Score:5, Funny)
Does that mean pregnant lesbians prefer Linux?
Go ahead...mod me down. It's not like I have any karma to lose, anyway.....
Nah! (Score:3, Funny)
Kinda odd, that a kid is forced to pay a buttload for a failure, but in reality the power companies fuck it up themselves and nobody's sueing (yet).
Re:Funny... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, maybe he will let you categorize the miscellaneous garbage in his mini-van. Oh wait, he already did that [gushi.org].
I hate you, and everyone like you. (Score:5, Funny)
SCO authentication?
How the HELL does that couple with open source management software?
Why do people always want my BEST skill, and two other skills that no one in the world wants. It's like, "We want a Java programmer with massive database experience...Who is a hemaphrodite, and can speak fluent sanskrit." AAAAAAAAAA!
Re:I KNOW that guy... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Violet laser beams... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who is he? The invisible man? (Score:3, Funny)
Thinking "outside the stock art box" (Score:3, Funny)
Case in point, my company put out a mailer featuring a nice looking woman in a trenchcoat, holding the trenchcoat closed, showing a little leg at the bottom, with the caption "I have something Graphic to show you." The mailer opened folded open, with the edge of the mailer flap following the edge of the woman's trenchcoat. Open the mailer to find...... an ad for our graphical operator interface terminal!
... Yeah, we got lots of negative feedback from that ad campaign... ;)
Re:it comes this..! (Score:4, Funny)
You lose...it's not me...pay up!
- JoeShmoe
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WTF? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I hate you, and everyone like you. (Score:2, Funny)
Are you hiring?
red hat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I KNOW that guy... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a disguise you idiot!!!! This is what he really looks like! [bcgreen.com]