Posts by Mako 223 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2009
"Kevin Butler, a fictional PS3 vice president..."
"A email sent to Butler [...wasn't...] returned"
Well if he's fictional, his email address probably is too, so...
But seriously, does that mean that he's a genuine employee, whom Sony have fictionalised as a vice-president (presumably for some idiotic marketing-related reason)?
I ask because I'm as confused as Goat Jam (upthread) appears to be.
...who don't want to risk poisoning the water table. Or don't want to risk some poor unsuspecting future homeowner unearthing the remains, (it sucks - believe me).
Or maybe they just want to take Mr. Barky with them when they move.
I had my cat cremated when he died. He's in a little box that sits on his favourite windowsill.
I've got one of these, with a clear plastic sheathing so you can see the braids. It came "free" with a power supply I bought a few years ago. I thought they'd done it because it looks neat.
You know, this might well be the very thing that pushes me into setting up an eBay account. Anyone wanna buy a grand's worth of braided cable...?
"In December 2007, Bragg sent a Skype message to a Texas man identified only as C.R. who acted as a middleman between stock promotors and the email spammers. It reported that the spam campaign for one of the companies was “runnin hard hitting inbox on gmail, hot, yahoo, fusemail”
{...}
At the time of reporting, it was unclear whether he had added "YEE-HAW! Hot diggedy dawg!" and danced on his comically oversized hat."
Not sure why you posted AC, as it's an excellent piece of advice and I like to know who I'm upvoting. :-)
Existing management comms channels are ideal for making sure that the message gets put across thoroughly and effectively. Users will read and acknowledge mail from their line manager; they are less likely to read it from Joe.Bloggs@ITSupport.
"... detailing exactly how users could change passwords, why doing so was a good idea..."
"See, we set all of your passwords to the same thing, so you need to change yours for security reasons..."
At which point the office scallywags went and logged in as everyone else and flooded your mail system with;
"From: Dan
To: Mike
Subject: I've been meaning to tell you...
...I want you to call me Susan and be my cuddle-bunny."
(Just kidding. I'm sure you didn't really do that).
<SFX: cups and teaspoons>
Board Member 1: I...I've just had an epiphany!
Board Member 2: Really? What is it?
BM1: I think we should... (dramatic pause) ...make some *money*.
*Rest of Board gasps*
BM2: This is preposterous! An outrage!
*Rest of Board murmurs agreement*
BM1: No, really! Instead of spending millions in venture capital on servers to support a freeloading piss-poor bandwagon with a limited lifespan, we should look to provide a product/service that a smaller number of people will actually be happy to pay for!
Board Member 3: Eeek! (Faints)
BM2: You just don't get the Web 2.0 concept, do you. Go on - get out of here.
BM1 Exeunts.
Take a modern, high-spec machine, put Windows 7 on it, and then load up every single piece of AV software you can get your hands on, (especially the kind that has on-access protection).
Get em all running, and then see if the machine has enough resources left over to open an instance of Notepad.
Have a dustpan and brush ready to clean up the smoking ruins.
...that it'll change anyone's mind, but I regularly use and administer MS and OS systems. Guess what - they all have crappy little problems and all of their developers talk and compete, which is why they look similar. The holy wars between them are pathetic, as are the people who fight them. You're not even fighting the same battles, FFS.
The story here is that a drone spoke out of turn. Given the commercial impact, I'd just love to be a fly on the wall to see the dry slap he gets. And that's about all.
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