David Skinner wrote:

Perhaps he's writing a driver in C, and he really meant
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGV" or "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGC"?

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

On 3 Jan 2007 06:28:21 GMT, DaZZa deadspam.com> wrote:

We're still here. We just tend to post more on the web than Usenet these
days.

-SteveD

"Mike Andrews" wrote in
news:elrrtb$mpf$1@puck.litech.org:

Suchlike people are everywhere. When I was a teen I worked at a gas
station one summer. One time a guy went driving slowly past the pump
islands, rolled down his window and, still moving, asked me if I could
tell him what was making "that noise". I said "No." He kept going and
left my station, so that made me the winner. If he'd have stopped the car
and let me open the hood I might have been able to help him, but I guess
he was testing my Amazing Psychic Powers or something.

-Jay

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:30:55 +0000 (UTC), Peter Corlett cabal.org.uk> wrote in mooli.org.uk>:

He's probably swallowed the Jargon Dice and then done what my late
wife, who taught Remedial Reading to kids in grades 1 through 6,
called a "simplicity reduction".

There are people here at WeBuildHighways -- some of them in IT -- who
do the same sort of thing, and it frustrates me beyond description.
I'm sure the medical types feel the same way about _us_.

This was one of my favourite support e-mails. The job title after his
signature just made it even more mind-boggling.

----------------------------------------
Hi,

Can you tell me what bandwidth the email pop3 boxes work with?

thanks,

$name
IT Manager
----------------------------------------

I think we eventually just sent him a random article about POP3 from our
support website. He never wrote back, so either this was satisfactory, or
he never did get his e-mail to work with his pop3 bandwidth.

Rayner

In article 4ax.com>,
Siggi B adam.com.au> wrote:

I'm mostly lurking, because I'm a Perl geek now, rather than a webhosting
Bob. The change was just in time, I think. I'd been working there 15 months
or so, and was starting to seriously think about which window of the call
centre would offer the best vantage point for sniping at the locals.

I was about six months into the new job before I could hear a phone ring
without suffering an involuntary shudder of revulsion.

Anyway, many of the people I worked with wouldn't even have known what
Usenet was, let alone how to post here. They'd probably use some web board
thing that poorly emulates Usenet. Slowly. While offering you free smileys.

Rayner

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:54:32 +1030, Siggi B adam.com.au> wrote:

Nah, it's pretty dead. A lot of the participation moved to webforums like
TSC. And techsupport being a rapid-turnover, rapid-burnout job, I'd bet
that 90%% of current techs had never heard of Usenet.

Them's the breaks.

-SteveD

In article 4ax.com>,
siggi@adam.com.au says...

Nope - this group is pretty-much dead these days. You're lucky to see
two posts a month.

If you're thinking about bothering the monks instead, there are at least
two things you need to fix first.

I've just finished the review phase of my 2nd book [see my website for
details, I won't link it here for obvious reasons].

It's a text covering software developer problems with cryptography, and
is based for the most part on my experience as a developer and from
supporting my projects. I think the book is a decent read and for the
software developers out there stuck doing crypto work it should prove
useful.

It's not a "handbook of applied crypto" style book, so please don't
think of it as a re-run book :-)

The text hits the printers tomorrow and should be in stock within a
month [starting in the states of course...].

I recommend picking up my 1st book on large integer math, not just
because it's my book but because it covers the math in more depth than
this book does. I also recommend the "Guide to Elliptic Curve
Cryptography" as I don't cover ECC in a huge amount of depth. The
three books fit well together as they were written in that frame of
mind (they sit on my desk at the office).