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<0> GENIOSI: I didn't recall being sad.
<1> GENIOSI, please go to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and pay careful attention to the suggestions there. It'll improve your chances of getting a useful answer.
<2> You wouldn't happen to have any geekgrrl friends in the New England area would you? ;)
<3> Geniosi call the geek squad lol
<4> Tawny, ok, so no happy wishing = bring back hardware
<3> lol
<2> Oh god, every time I see a Geek Squad VW New Beetle I want to set it on fire
<5> **** ;( i`m new on this linux but.. in 2 month all know me.! bye
<6> C4.
<2> I like blowing things up as much as the next guy, but I really like pretty flames.
<3> CeruleanD nope, only geek girls I know besides myself all reside in Redmond or silicon valley
<6> if you're gonna destroy it, for god sakes do it right
<2> Awwww
<7> CeruleanD: there's always lots of 'em at the Best Buy at the mall in Manchester
<2> Lots of what, geekgrrls or Geek Squad cars to torch?
<8> .... whot he say?
<7> CeruleanD: the latter, unfortunately
<3> Geniosi says he will pwn us all on his mad l33t linux skills in 2 monthslmao
<2> Well, Best Buy is the propagator of the Geek Squad, so you'll probably find many of their cars outside any Best buy
<7> lots of geek squad cars and lots of PFY
<2> Which is what makes them REALLY ****, 'cause anyone who actually buys PC hardware from a retail chain store (unless they're desperate or it's a monitor or case), just loses all geek cred with me.
<2> So to have a "Geek Squad" created by Best Buy... I dunno, seems like they tarnish the "geek" name
<7> CeruleanD: well, hey, I got my $gf a new machine at best buy.
<2> Is she technically inclined?
<7> to be fair, Best Buy bought Geek Squad
<2> I thought Best Buy created Geek Squad?
<7> nope. Geek Squad created itself and then saw an opportunity to cash in when BB offered to buy them.
<2> Well, I could be wrong, all I know is I started seeing that Geek Squad stuff spilling out from Best Buy at some point, I figured it was their spawn.
<3> if she is technicaly inclined she would call it garbage and toss it at you for insulting her lol
<2> Oh ok, well, I guess I can't blame them.
<2> Well, if someone's not technically inclined, then I really can't fault them for buying a store-bought PC. They get the warranty and actually could use the technical ***istance.
<9> you mean the lack of help they p*** off as technical ***istance
<2> But any "real" PC geek can build a faster, better, higher quality PC from parts off the Internet much cheaper, and then support it themselves.
<6> where I come from, "geek" is an epithet
<7> she's a paralegal... not technically inclined at all. Got her an emachines box with a Sempron for $250 after rebate. It does everything she needs and is very happy with it. and I got, ah, rewarded for buying her a nice toy.
<2> Well, that's all that matters Ka-bar. ;)
<2> Geek used to be a curse, nowadays, well, I'm quite proud to call myself a geek.
<7> ditto
<2> I accept dork and nerd with a smile too, generally. :)
<8> hi Liandrin
<3> yep I love being a geek
<9> Viking667, how's the Unicode thing going?
<8> Unfortunately, I am geek, but only partly.
<8> oh, gave up. Twin's not cooperating.
<7> as a consultant, I consider myself a techno-whore
<7> :)
<2> lol Liandrin, that's just semantics. ;)
<9> Viking667, even with the command line switches?
<8> As in, irssi run under console works, but irssi under twin isn't the same.
<6> a conslutant?
<7> heh... yeah.
<2> lol, nice Tamahome, I like that one
<2> Nooooooo
<6> conslutants are anybody's bitch, for a price
<2> Give in to the dark side and move to M***achusetts
<8> someone throw me a sequence?
<2> Much cooler geeks around Raytheon and MIT and MITRE. ;)
<8> (utf, that is)
<3> that is true
<7> Tawny: no, you need to move to somewhere where there's a redhat office... that's where you can meet geeks. :)
<9> I used to get flak from a group of friends for being a Windows whore -- i.e., paid to program windows
<9> Viking667,
<2> Heh
<8> hrm. I got something looking like mu then.
<3> Raytheon has an office here but no geeks
<9> Viking667, éàõ
<2> Well, one should seperate what one does to make money vs. what one likes to do in their spare time
<9> what was really funny about that particular group of geeks was that they all made so much noise about how much they hated Windows
<9> but they all had to deal with Windows at work
<2> hehehe
<9> and I was the only one in the group who would admit knowing anything about Windows
<7> Sun has a huge campus in Burlington, MA.... lots of geeks there. lots of other geek companies in the area as well. Plus you get Cambridge (MIT, Harvard) and Boston nearby...
<2> Yeah, Sun!
<2> Exactly
<2> I can show you all around here
<2> I work in Cambridge. ;)
<6> but... then you'd have to work for McNealy
<2> Talk about a huge campus, Sun's is nuts.
<7> and Redbones
<7> indeed.
<9> my opinion was that in some cases I'd sweated blood to learn about $thing, so sharing the knowledge so gained was the least I could do
<2> And poor Sun... it's only like 1/3 full. They built up this gigantic campus during their heyday years ago and now... they're slowly shrinking.
<2> Or last I heard they were, I dunno if they've turned that around.
<3> sun is dying :(
<2> Sweating blood is messy and sticky and makes people look at you weird.
<7> well, I got an email from a $friend at Sun this morning telling me that they were having another layoff. She's safe, but she knows some people who got RIFed
<2> Oh man, that ****s. :()
<2> Honestly, for all the taunting they get, I like working on Sun systems.
<7> but if you look at their jobs web site, they have ****loads of openings... weird.
<8> ouch.
<2> Yeah, it's strange like that.
<2> They're probably letting off middle-management perhaps?
<9> maybe they were imploding, but now they're getting back on their feet?
<7> perhaps they were just cleaning up some deadwood...
<2> Could be
<2> Probably shipping half their CS department to India, like everyone else.
<7> any organization that gets that big is going to collect a fair amount of deadwood over time.
<2> yeah
<2> Definitely
<2> Lots of directors/senior managers who wind up with only one or two direct reports.
<7> Even during their heyday when DEC was hiring like crazy, they'd still occasionally sweep out some of the deadwood.
<7> DEC was famous for having literally hundreds of VPs.
<2> yeah
<10> we had a spare VP here for a while
<10> he had no job responsibilities
<7> the organization was flat enough that I was only 6 levels from Ken Olsen himself. Very shallow.... very, very wide.
<2> hehehe, yeah, I don't think I was far from him at one point either.
<2> I'm only 4 from the CEO now. ;)
<7> where were you? ZKO?
<2> MRO at first, then moved on to...
<2> Littleton...
<2> I forget the lettering code at the new place, there were two Littleton offices
<2> Ours was named after the street, not Littleton itself
<2> Damn, I'd recognize it if I saw it
<7> there were 3 at one point. LKG, TAY and LTN. LTN got closed well over 10 years ago. I worked there in '92-ish.
<2> TAY! That's it
<2> Taylor St
<2> I didn't know about LTN
<2> I knew LKG
<7> Yup. And LTN was just up the hill from TAY.
<2> But I was at TAY
<2> yeah
<2> Oh ok
<2> I was in TAY01, worked on the helpdesk.
<7> when I was in LTN back in 92, I was working on the B1 secure version of OSF/1 for the Alpha.
<2> DEC had the best helpdesk, it was a model for what other helpdesks should be IMO
<2> Ah ok cool
<7> and then I moved up to MKO (Merrimack, NH) for a while and then to ZKO.
<7> The old MKO facility is where Fidelity is now.
<2> Ah, poor DEC... definitely an example of sales winning over substance.
<2> Yeah
<2> ZKO's... Nashua, right?
<2> Spitbrook Rd.?
<7> yup
<2> I used to go to the DCU there
<7> My office at ZKO was directly behind the DCU office.
<2> I'm feeling very deja vu-ish
<2> I'm fairly certain we've talked about this before, lol
<7> uh. yeah... now that you mention it. heh.
<2> heh
<7> this has been an excrutiatingly long week.
<6> and it's not Friday yet
<2> yeah, same here
<7> can't wait to get out of NY tomorrow and head home to NH for the weekend.
<2> Thank god I have tomorrow off.
<7> well, I'm off at noon tomorrow. Then I have a 3.5 drive home to Manchester.
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