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."
Re:eh? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who is he? The invisible man? (Score:3, Informative)
RTFA (Score:2, Informative)
Stock photography.
no Red Hat (Score:5, Informative)
Photodisc (Score:5, Informative)
That's all for now...
That 's not what's funny (Score:5, Informative)
knows auditing, too (Score:5, Informative)
Re:News for retards (Score:4, Informative)
He even works at an ISP! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:OMG! (Score:2, Informative)
Neither Google, nor the Wayback Machine can find that site.
Re:Photodisc (Score:5, Informative)
wrapup: 5 urls so far (Score:5, Informative)
- Ipswitch [ipswitch.com]
- Plesk [plesk.com]
- SCO [sco.com]
- Arsys [arsys.es]
- Ecora [ecora.com]
have any more to share?
Another one (Score:3, Informative)
Re:knows auditing, too (Score:5, Informative)
Re:wrapup: 5 urls so far (Score:1, Informative)
What's the big deal??? (Score:1, Informative)
It's not like the text of the story refers to him directly, and says how great and wonderful he is.
It's just like seeing the same photo of a scantily clad woman, being used in both a Harley Davidson ad, and also in "Guns & Ammo" and figuring that she really knows how to live!
What if, instead of a guy in those photos, they all simply had a picture of the same mainframe? Would people be saying that one computer is running SCO, Solaris, Linux, AIX, etc? OR would people act a little smarter, and know that it's just a freaking stock photo and not worry about it?
Re:it comes this..! (Score:5, Informative)
According to this site [gettyimages.com]
Re:Who? (Score:5, Informative)
He's got a Bachelor's Degree (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This is an old one ... KopyKat Kompanies ? (Score:3, Informative)
This threw me, until digging through the results I found this [signpresence.com], and the variations this [signpresence.com], this [signpresence.com], this [signpresence.com], this [signpresence.com]. It's just a bunch of sample text and imagry for a web design company. I'm guessing the many, many sites using the text are purchased that web design company's services. There are other similarities. Many of the derived sites are using the same bulleted list of people with links using javascript to replace the URL with "Details...". I'm definately thinking this is all contracted work from a really lazy web design company. Interestingly, some [foleygraphics.com] are [print-tech.com] still [sgiaz.com] using [express-press.com] the [integrityprint.com] same [digitalxpress.com] stock [chatmm.com]. photograph [hvpi.com].
God, there are so many of them. I only hope the web design service was cheap.
Re:The interesting thing I found. . . (Score:4, Informative)
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo
The photo's page on gettyimages [gettyimages.com] says "Release Information: This image has a signed model release", so it sounds like he didn't get paid a cent for each usage.
Wow, he sells his services on Ebay Too! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Famous faces (Score:3, Informative)
Unfortunately, the smiling families were stock art, and the real life individuals lived in places such as Oregon [globeandmail.com]. To my knowledge, none of the people in the ad spots were even Canadian. Oops.
here too (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS. (Score:4, Informative)
a.k.a. Waldo Chen [thestreet.com] who even appears on my ReplayTV channel guide. He is the poster child for the
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SCO may have changed, but there's Google Cache!! (Score:2, Informative)
They did more than that: they replaced the photo! (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.sco.com/images/auth/newauth.jpg
(Notice the word "new" in the image filename?)