March 25, 2003
I was happy enough to get the latest release of Slackware last week, and I installed it on my main system at home. While the ISO was downloading, I went ahead and bought the full release of Slackware 9 from the Slackware Store to show my support.
In other news, I'm getting more and more frustrated with the complete asshats that call me at work. Some of the hotels we service have in-room computers for the guests to use, and as you can imagine, they're locked down security-wise. So I had a guy call me tonight, complaining that he downloaded Yahoo messenger, and that the computer wouldn't let him run it. I told him that it would be pretty irresponsible of us to allow any executable to run on our systems, and as such, they were prevented from doing so. I mentioned that this included software downloaded from the internet. His next statement pretty much caused my brain to jam into neutral.
"Well, there's no software. I don't think any software was downloaded. I think it was, you know, hardware."
My body immediately ceased all nonessential functions as all available resources were diverted to my brain to try to figure out what the hell this guy just said to me. I think I was locked up for a good 5 to 7 seconds before my speech came back online, when I finally managed to utter a baffled "what?"
He repeated himself, which caused my eye to twitch involuntarily. I decided I didn't want to know what he thought he meant, and wasn't even going to ask. I just told him that hardware consists of physical devices, "like your keyboard. That's hardware." to which he replied "Oh."
The gene pool needs more chlorine.
(02:05)
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