Posts by cookieMonster 692 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Apr 2008
It’s not just co-pilot. I was battling the fucking Outlook infestation last weekend at my in-laws. Thought I finally killed it by stopping some services on the computer. Heard this evening that the “Try new outloook” icon has again replaced the default windows mail.
Going to visit them on Sunday, with a Linux Mint Bootable USB drive and solve the problem once and for all.
I loved it. Actually bought a BeBox, and only sold it 2 years ago.
The OS was great, and the one outstanding thing I really loved was the File System and the way you could add attributes to files and query it.
Was pretty upset when it went away. I’ve tried Haiku but it’s not something I could use on a daily basis.
Oh god, this exact thing. Flew across the Atlantic to help troubleshoot/fix a “mission critical” failure. Arrived on site, shown to a desk and they point blank refused to give me credentials to login to the system. Apparently “non nationals” were verboten, which was weird as us “non nationals” wrote the software & installed it. It got sorted out in two or three days. I whiled away the time visiting a beautiful city and sampling the many local beers, which I could expense.
Don’t condone his actions at all. I was visiting a client in Boston in the 90’s, found a hotel about 500 meters from the office. Taxi from airport to hotel Sunday night. Walked to the office, I got about 50 meters up the street and was stopped by a cop. He told me I was jaywalking, there were no foot paths, I was on the verge beside the road. Did not get arrested, but was driven back to the hotel and told I either get a taxi or rent a car. Thankfully when I explained this to the receptionist she just told me to hang on a second while she went and got her car, she drove me to the office both days I was there and the client dropped me back.
Still can’t believe this actually happened to me.
Pint, cause I needed a few after the first day, and it’s Thursday now.
to focus the mind.
Before this it was “just customer data”; but now it’s getting personal. Don’t agree with the tactics but at least the asshats in the C-Suite are now getting a taste of what thousands (or millions) of their “customers” suffer.
NOT sorry for them, at all.
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