* Posts by Wil Risenhoover

6 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Mar 2008

SF's silent sysadmin pleads not guilty

Wil Risenhoover
IT Angle

It works and its secure

It works and its secure, no wonder he locked it! It sounds obvious that everyone else there is a fool and I wouldn’t want them making changes to my systems either.

Irate sysadmin locks San Francisco officials out of network

Wil Risenhoover
Coat

Can you say: “Scapegoat”?

I’m betting some VIP stepped on the fiber and kinked it.

I’ve yet to see a local government that didn’t treat their IT department like a redheaded stepchild and it would be no wonder the thing collapsed. I’m just counting the days until it happens where I work.

Never let suits in the datacenter…

World Bank chief: Ethanol cars run on human misery

Wil Risenhoover
Flame

Its people that cause the problem, more or less…

More people eat more food and take up more space giving less space available to grow food. Result, we all eat Soylent Green.

Then there is the cost of transportation, as rising fuel prices drive up the cost of food (and just about everything else) and the oil industry admits to record breaking profits. But let’s leave that rant for later…

Why fire? Burn everything, that will solve the problem!

Vista SP1 downloaders bite back

Wil Risenhoover

@ Jamie

Looks like they are getting better!

Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, WFW and Not There were all crap…

They did a halfway decent job with OS/2, but I imagine that had more to do with IBM than MS.

Wil Risenhoover
IT Angle

@ Bill

“The only relatively stable operating systems have been those on proprietary hardware such as the IBM mainframe.”

Truer words are rarely spoken. They do tons of work too and many places that switched to other platforms are switching back.

IT? I think that is obvious…

Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax dies

Wil Risenhoover
Unhappy

Thank you, Mr. Gygax

We will miss you.

RIP...until your next adventure.