I Will Not Repeat Myself: That is not a word

Use the word 'emails' much? Know any half-wits who do? Apparently, in case you didn't know, That is not a word. There: we've been told.

I ran across this guy's posts before, but there mustn't be too many of them. I enjoy his hatred of the culture-derived. Oh: I mean deprived. Right. Sorry.

Implemented VoIP, but still not Understanding it

Better said, Mr Hal Pate seems to understand what VoIP is, but doesn't understand the difference between a basic service and a feature. In Information Week's article In Depth: Five Things You Must Know About VoIP, Mr Pate apparently realized (this is Mr Pate, apparently recounting for Information Week):

Even after deployment, maintenance and management costs kept adding up, and implementing features such as unified messaging soaked up time and resources.

.. and right there, he seems to have lumped in a messaging feature with the initial cost of replacing his ageing PBX system. The cost of one thing is compared with the cost of having the replacement offer the same services, or the cost of upgrading the old system to match these 'required' savings is compared; don't compare apples and oranges!

I'm further baffled by the whining about added IP network costs: either Mr Pate was a good network engineer and provisioned extra for expansion, or he didn't. If he didn't he now get a free IP upgrade and expansion to nice, new, clean, wide wires, for merely the cost of the added cable to be pulled; I don't see him complaining about expanding a network that he seemed to be indicating was all but stretched to the limit as it was. Equal Time, Mr Pate!

The article itself spends afew minutes on the good points of VoIP, but these are mere confirmation of well-known opinions than anything real. I'm more disappointed that the gloom and doom assessments of the Mr Pates of the world are allowed to go on without any hard clarification.

Judge Deals Blow to SCO -- and the unwashed cry 'harlot!'

Judge Deals Blow to SCO in $5 Billion Linux Lawsuit - Yahoo! News:

The holidays came early for devotees of the
Linux operating system when a judge last week threw out the majority of claims brought against IBM by the SCO Group in its $5 billion intellectual property rights case.

You people are idiots. Can you not see how you've been tricked into thinking a lawsuit against a large company over some potentially-misused code has got anything to do with Linux? The only part where Linux is involved in this thing is where IBM potentially used SCO Unixware/Monterey code in Linux. Linux hippies should be pretty pissed at IBM if such were ever the case, as it threatens the otherwise pristine nature of the code contributed to Linux.

But no, the Linux crunchies aren't up in arms at the potential sullying of their beloved 'free' code. Of all things, they've been whipped into a frenzy at SCO. It's akin to the villagers stoning a woman for crying 'rape.'

I continue to wonder what kind of ingenius promoting coerced the stupid villagers to believe what they do, although I'm pretty sure I know whom such a dramatic shift would directly benefit.

Did IBM do nasty things? how the hell should I know? I wasn't even there, and I'm certainly not going to jump to conclusions on that, let alone stone the potential victim. Let this thing play out, if it actually can in this highly biased environment. Shame on us for all being idiots in the village.