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[kirrus]

Really not off topic

http://picasaweb.google.com/ialoneambest/DropBox#5433982138598453218

[Mad Penguin]

 

Seriously, an entire jar of coffee in two days ?! Someone doesn't sleep much! 

[Smither]

I like using linux because I finally understand xkcd comics.

[Mad Penguin]

ROFL .. although I think the last bit about Ubuntu is a little unfair 

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Source:
http://www.itoperationz.com/2010/01/funny-point-of-view-about-linux-mac-and-windows/ (http://www.itoperationz.com/2010/01/funny-point-of-view-about-linux-mac-and-windows/)

[Smither]

If you guy don't read it already, then I can highly recommend xkcd. (http://xkcd.com/111/)

[kirrus]

I wonder what the map would look like now, considering how many blocks have been assigned since it was made...

[Smither]

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

[shtromm]

Perhaps I schould add in ~/.bash_aliases a line

Code Select Expand


alias please='sudo'


[Mad Penguin]

[smg type=preview caption="True Story: 1996" id=562]

[Mad Penguin]

[smg type=preview caption="True Store: 1985" id=572]

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

If you don't want to watch it all... watch it from about 7 minutes in, where he starts to talk about Open Source.

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=related#ws)

[Mad Penguin]

Excellent presentation!

{cynic++}

IMHO not applicable for 98% of the population, but if you can afford to hire all your staff from the 2% pool to which this presentation applies you probably have it made!
(i.e. if you have as much money as Google for example ... ;-)  )

I spent 10 years trying to hire people like this with a very mediocre success rate .. .. maybe it just applies to yanks .. here's my take;

• Give a salesman a free day; he'll come up with a fantastic product with a huge profit margin that you can't manufacture
• Give an accountant a free day; he'll come up with a new list of courses he can enrol on
• Give an executive a free day; he'll come back with an enhanced handicap
• Give a tekkie a free day; he'll come back with a fantastic new product for which there is no market
• Give a helpdesker a free day; he'll paint the word "Roy" on his T-shirt and come back with a tape-recorder strapped to his phone that automatically answers and plays "have you tried turning it off and on again?".

{cynic--}



ps. IT Crowd, New Series, Channel 4, 9pm

[kirrus]

I kinda had a 'free' ish day at work (I asked for a day for a single task.) I got my development and build environments shiny, and updated all the debian packages we use on new machines at work