[TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company, shoots itsself in the foot (MS Vista)

[David McDowell]

Google is possibly coming to NC, but look west ... Caldwell County is
where I heard they would be coming.  Good choice in my opinion, the NC
mountains are beautiful!


On 1/1/07, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> You might wanna increase the resistor to 1 k Ohm.  60 mA is a little fat for
> a LED.
>
> So, is Google landing in NC soon?  I told Vint last week that I'd personally
> roll out the red carpet for him if they choose Raleigh.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Ray, President
> Neuse River Networks
> tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
> http://www.Neuse.Net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > Aaron S. Joyner
> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:22 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company, shoots
> itsself
> > in the foot (MS Vista)
> >
> > William Sutton wrote:
> > > err...my co-worker says:
> > >
> > > -----
> > > that's utter BS. Real men write their resumes with "lpr", in PostScript.
> > > -----
> > >
> > > William
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Oh come now.  Real men write their resumes with a 6v battery, a 100 ohm
> > resistor, an LED (and appropriate resistor), and the tx/rx pairs of an
> > Ethernet cable.  Connect up the LED with the resistor in series to the
> > RX pair, one of the TX pairs to the negative battery terminal, tie the
> > 100 Ohm resistor to the other TX pair.  Then just tap out the packet by
> > hand by connecting the other lead of the 100 Ohm resistor to the
> > positive battery terminal.  No whining about not being fast enough,
> > haven't you been playing Quake and it's derivatives for a decade now?
> >
> > Bonus points if you configure the network printer first the same way,
> > before sending your resume to the printer as Postscript to lpd.  Don't
> > even think of going all new-fangeldy and tapping out packets ipp packets.
> >
> > Aaron S. Joyner
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