Quothe John Allain, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:39:14PM -0500:
> My last company hired me for Alpha/Unix work and
> moved me in parts to Pentium/NT. I did leave.
Sorry to hear about that happening, but good for you for leaving! :-)
> Do realize that the choice in the matter is going
> away slowly.
Yes, unfortunately. Many others will, no doubt, be preparing to leave
the computer field as a result.
> Regarding working with MS. What I do
> now is log bugs into a personal running
> log file. It works better than doing
How many times have you needed to upgrade to a larger hard drive in
order to keep adding onto that file? ;-)
> nothing. I feel like I'll be ready for
> when Ralph Nader or the SEC calls for
> information to use in court cases. Not
> too likely to happen, but it does feel
> better to be prepared in this way and
> doing -something- about it.
Excellent idea! :-) While you're at it, you might also want to include
the fact that Micro$oft was peddling what some might call "soft-porn,"
distributed with MS-Windoze 95. There's a gif (or was it a .jpg
file?) of a cartoon-character, of Bat Girl if I recall correctly, who
was bare chested and appeared to be weilding a whip. I found this
file in one of the directories on a system at work a few years ago,
after a fresh OS install onto a new hard drive. While I didn't find
this at all offensive (they could have at least made it an animated
gif!), some politicians, like Ashcroft, who's embarrased by nude
classical artwork (statues), might take great offense... surely that
wouldn't go in Micro$oft's favor with the present U.S. presidential
administration.
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