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)
Re:Sadly I have a job (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sadly I have a job (Score:5, Funny)
Violet laser beams... (Score:5, Funny)
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:Violet laser beams... (Score:2)
Daniel
Re:Violet laser beams... (Score:4, Funny)
I KNOW that guy... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I KNOW that guy... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a disguise you idiot!!!! This is what he really looks like! [bcgreen.com]
Subliminal Message (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Subliminal Message (Score:2)
Although not when he appears on the SCO page.
Hmmm...I bid ONE MILLION DOLLARS. (Score:5, Funny)
This guy should team up with the screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
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
--H
Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
(BTW, kudos on a successfull "You insensitive clod" post without the actual "insensitive clod" part.
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is quite an acheivement in and of itself.
KFG
Re:Who? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
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...).
Re:Who? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)
Should have previewed
What this really means is... (Score:5, Funny)
page view
- cnb
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.
RTFA (Score:2, Informative)
Stock photography.
And here comes his sister, the most famous female (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone know more places?
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.....
Funny... (Score:3, Interesting)
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: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].
no Red Hat (Score:5, Informative)
Re:no Red Hat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:no Red Hat (Score:2)
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."
Re:Dupe comment (Score:4, 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:it comes this..! (Score:5, Informative)
According to this site [gettyimages.com]
Re:it comes this..! (Score:4, Funny)
You lose...it's not me...pay up!
- JoeShmoe
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Photodisc (Score:5, Informative)
That's all for now...
Re:Photodisc (Score:5, Informative)
That 's not what's funny (Score:5, Informative)
knows auditing, too (Score:5, Informative)
Re:knows auditing, too (Score:5, Informative)
He also has Superhuman Powers (Score:5, Funny)
Of course I've met him before... (Score:4, Insightful)
...nice guy, his friends call him "Zelig."
Why is Slashdot report on stock photos?
It wouldn't be so bad... (Score:2)
That, or the web designers involved in using that pic hire the photoshop work out to lobotomized monkeys.
Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry ladies, but if this guy exists he probably plays for the other side.
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
Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Describe this "discontinuous use of slashdot" idea, it intrigues me.
Re:Mystery IT kid's dark secret! (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft?
DT
Daryl McBride? (Score:2)
He even works at an ISP! (Score:2, Informative)
I have to click??? (Score:3, Funny)
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: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 deriv
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?
He is a bachelor it seems. (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart (Score:5, Interesting)
It's unbelievable how unimaginitive the photoart used on corporate websites and brochures can be.
At ork we used to make fun of the brochures for various business related software/hardware companies that always seemed to include the same type of photoart: a group of business men and women staring at a computer screen, pointing their fingers and going "ahh" at presumably how good the product was perceived to be. You could literally find this stuff in every single brochure you browsed through.
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:Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart (Score:5, Insightful)
Setting up good camera equipment (no, not your $200 digicam) with real lighting so that you don't end up with hotspots and unwanted shadows and having someone with enough knowledge to use it properly = ~$1000.
Which would you rather pay for a graphic on a site that will probably change in 3 months?
Re:Predictability, thy name is corporate photoart (Score:4, Insightful)
For web stuff, 35mm camera shots are good enough, but you really need good lighting. Camera flashes give off very unnatural looking light. I had to do a photo-shoot of our CEO for a magazine interview. I have a photography background, so I was comfortable renting the appropriate lighting rig (and medium format camera, since the photo was going to be printed in the magazine at any size up to about 15x20 inches); but I don't expect that all companies have someone on-staff who would have the first clue about setting up appropriate location lighting.
On our site, the shot of the staff, and of the building are actual (homegrown) shots, but for simple graphic "punctuation" pieces, it's much more convenient to be able to use stock photography. It's not like we are in the photography business, so I don't have a studio set up full time. Additionally, I think you are totally discounting the fact that it takes somebody who knows how to take good photographs for it to look good. "Point and shoot" most likely will not leave you with anything useful.
I would agree, however, that once you are a high profile company, that you avoid stock photography in certain areas (ie. your home page, cover of your brochure, etc.) For that stuff, you should have something custom made. However for many small businesses, this just isn't an option.
Actor (Score:2, Funny)
That makes him just like most of the management at the place I work at come to think of it.
Another one (Score:3, Informative)
I thought... (Score:3, Funny)
The most famous geek in the world was Milo Hoffman [imdb.com]!
Stephen
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).
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:Famous faces (Score:3, Funny)
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 C
From the SCO link... (Score:3, Interesting)
He's got a Bachelor's Degree (Score:5, Informative)
He's a University Geek to (Score:4, Funny)
(Laugh, it's a joke -m aybe they are accredited, I have no clue!)
I know his sister... (Score:5, Funny)
See old Slashdot article [slashdot.org]
Re:I know his sister... (Score:3, Funny)
Guy must need a job too... (Score:4, 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].
Umm...no. (Score:5, Funny)
-buf
Re:Umm...no. (Score:3, Interesting)
Out of context, and with no prior knowledge of you, any reasonably-able person would assume you are a football player if you were photographed in front of football equipment or were wearing it.
A large number of those people would assume you are a football player if you were simply photographed on a football field.
That's how advertising works.
I know him! (Score:4, Interesting)
The interesting thing I found. . . (Score:5, Interesting)
I mean, what the hell does an image of a guy leaning against some computer stuff have to do with anything on any of these sites? It's silly! Dumb, even. Why the heck is it there? Is it like a fridge magnet or something? Is it holding up a grocery list? --And yet, when you don't think about it; when the average surfer arrives in a haze of predetermined, unoriginal behavior, such images DO hold power. Lots of it. --Perhaps more power than any other element of any of the three pages.
Advertising works for a reason.
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo, or if you realize that he's a model who probably may not even own a computer. . . Hell, just having the graphic formula made plain causes the haze of 'officialdom' achieved so effectively by the graphic artists' parallel lines and colored boxes and their officy-'very important' fonts, gets neatly blown away in the sudden wind of one's mind upon waking up for a moment. This is an example of the real power of the mind; a power very much feared by advertisers and the powers that be. This is why, in part, they like to augment the process with the introduction of anti-depressants, fluoride and various Monsanto additives to the population.
Deconstruction is always fun!
-FL
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.
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!
Wow, he sells his services on Ebay Too! (Score:3, Informative)
SCO changed the photo... (Score:3, Interesting)
That can only mean...
Let's greet them:
- I myself would like to show all my support to you in the case you're committing ritual suicide soon. Have a nice day!
Re:eh? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:eh? (Score:2)
If you miss it after going that, then you're just stupid
Re:Who is he? The invisible man? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Who is he? The invisible man? (Score:2)
Not news for nerds, not stuff that matters. Maybe it's a new form of commercial... time to go take a leak and when I come back, I'm heading right for the Reload button to see if I missed anything.
Re:Who is he? The invisible man? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:2)
Re:WTF WTF? (Score:2)
You never been there or what ?
Maybe it was
Re:News for retards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:News for retards (Score:3, Funny)
Re:News for retards (Score:4, Informative)
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
Re:OMG! (Score:2, Informative)
Neither Google, nor the Wayback Machine can find that site.
Re:SCO one has a Greenish hue (Score:2)
Re:What's the big deal??? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's HUMOR. Funny. You're supposed to laugh.
Why do so many people lack a basic sense of humor?