mmagod

i wish my fridays were back to how they used to be

they dont' surprise me anymore

now that i think about it, this would be handy for remote support techs walking a user on-site on what to do..

"you see the 3rd switch from the top that has the cisco logo? i'll need you to power cycle it"

2 hours later

"oh i found it"

vs.

"you see the girl with the blue hair? unplug the box her hair's connected to"

wow so much great memories lol

their good devs and engineers have left

thanks. i have a laptop i deliberately installed debian on.. but that's about it lol

i'll take you up on the support suggestion too.. i recently had to figure out why a unix server went down at work. luckily we had a set of scripts and commands archived from the manager that supported it before he left. all i did was just run them with a little bit of logic and context applied, but it forced me to poke around a bit and seeing what each command did. i was careful enough not to break anything but i found it quite interesting

i feel like i'm not actually against ads. i'm against the abuse of ads, that take away from the user experience..

i won't mind seeing an ad if it doesnt get in the way of what i need to do on the pc. i don't need an ad popping up when im trying to work on something, launch an application, download a file, etc. an ad in the corner, big enough for me to be aware of it, but obscure enough to not interrupt me will serve its purpose.

problem is, ad exposure is non-regulated and i can't believe how the constant ad spamming doesn't seem to phase a lot of people.

that being said.. what's a good website i can at least go to and learn some linux basics and progress to more advanced stuff? i'd at least want to check that out before i start bugging people..

i had the opportunity to take a class back in college but 18 yr old me couldn't handle a 7am class and know-it-alls in the back always interrupting the teacher and trying to show off in class..

ahh yes the "portables"

this would be a really mean prank

the fellow students in school growing up that always blew off paying attention in school and disrupting class didn't just disappear.. sure i saw less of them when i wasn't confined to those public grade school walls, but it's been a harsh realization for me as I'm seeing them again as adults buying into and spreading the misinformation.

sure if we want to get granular, then yes "it" is a pronoun as well.. it's just not typically used when referring to a person

the irony behind my use of "it" just now though..