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Brent Wallis (IS | 1 Oct 2003 01:27
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Re: Falcon

.....looking down my list for a "Falcon Recruitment"...........
......there it is............
..top off the "Red Niko".....
..............strike out..............

who would want to put their carreers in the hands of clueless
individuals who don;t even understand the word SPAM!

"Louise Lench" <louisel@...> wrote ..
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
>  
> 
> It has come to my attention that you are currently looking for IT staff
> to join your department. I was wondering if we could be of any
> assistance to yourselves in finding the successful candidate.
> 
>  
> 
> Falcon Recruitment was set up with a view to revolutionise the
> recruitment market. We believe that other agencies charge their clients
> far too much and don't focus on the things that matter. Here at Falcon
> we take a firm view that our clients need to be understood, which is why
> we have technical staff available to talk to about your requirements and
> help you find the person that you are looking for. After all what does
> a
> sales consultant know about IT? 
> 
>  
>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey | 1 Oct 2003 02:55
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Re: LinMagAu Survey Results - Eighth Edition

On Tuesday, 30 September 2003 at 13:02:04 +1000, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Our eigth edition .. :)
>
> We won..!!

Well, not unless you're using the royal "We".

> The Community section Award from AUUG Open Source Awards recently announced
> at their annual conference..
> There will be an official "handing over" ceremony of the little tux statuette
> we won.. and there is a big article about the whole thing in this edition :)
> See the LinMagAu Update..
> 
> ...
>
> Community
>
>  AUUG OS Community Award
>  (LinMagAu Wins)

Well, no, Kimberley Shelt won.  It's true that it's for the work you
did on LinMagAu, but that doesn't mean that LinMagAu won :-)

Congratulations, anyway.  You deserve it.

Greg
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David Lloyd | 1 Oct 2003 03:05
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Re: LinMagAu Survey Results - Eighth Edition


Greg,

> > We won..!!
> 
> Well, not unless you're using the royal "We".

Her Majesty Queen Kim the First?

..now don't go putting ideas into Kim's head ;-P
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Leon Brooks | 1 Oct 2003 11:39
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What a waste!

I speak for myself, not for the excellent organisations of which I am a 
member, and quote from this article:

http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-30-2003/0002027026

> People mistakenly refer to Linux as 'free' software because it can
> be freely altered and distributed.  Yet while the software itself
> is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very
> expensive. 

Tom, you've got that last bit completely bass-ackwards. Linux is not 
always free to purchase, but it is very rare for the ROI to be other 
than a big improvement on MS-Windows - which to cut through a lot of 
bulldust is what it would be replacing in Massachusetts.

I charge half as much again as a typical MS-Windows technician for my 
Linux work, and I'm so busy I have to turn people away because the 
Linux-based results are so much better than any proprietary ones 
they've ever seen.

The ROI results for OpenOffice.org, the office suite that MA will be 
replacing MS-Office with, are even more astounding. Fetch a copy of 
OpenOffice.org 1.1 yourself and try it out. Proper crash recovery, no 
viruses, scads of extra features including PDF and Flash output, and 
getting even better while you wait.

Both of these products are examples of one of the strongest forms of 
Open Source, the GPL or "Free (as in speech) Software".

> It is ironic that Massachusetts, as the only state remaining in
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Arjen Lentz | 1 Oct 2003 22:14
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Re: Falcon

Hi Brent,

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:27, Brent Wallis (IS) wrote:
> .....looking down my list for a "Falcon Recruitment"...........
> ......there it is............
> ..top off the "Red Niko".....
> ..............strike out..............
> 
> who would want to put their carreers in the hands of clueless
> individuals who don;t even understand the word SPAM!

Sometimes, if the origins are tracable and such, I take the effort to
try and explain things... so I tried in this case and after some initial
misunderstandings she was very understanding and apologetic. She won't
do it again, as it's clear to her now that the way she was going about
things was harming her business and its reputation in a serious way.

The reason I bother with this is that, as you say, people often don't
understand what spam is. They hear all kinds of nonsense. So, if
everybody, every once in a while, makes a little effort such as the
above, we can take educate quite a few basically goodwilling people who
were sucked in by what the email list selling nasties told them.... this
increased awareness will remove those customers from the pool, and
possible have a chain effort if they talk with others.

Of course, it doesn't always make sense to go after them like this, you
have to be very selective ;-)

Anyway that's just my2c.
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Leon Brooks | 2 Oct 2003 04:58
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South Korea understands


    http://www.silicon.com/news/500011-500001/1/6225.html?rolling=1

    [...]

    Twenty percent of desktop software and 30 percent of server
    software will be changed to open source by 2007, a spokesperson
    from the Ministry of Information and Communication said.

    [...]

    "If the change is successful, we will be able to save about
    US$300m a year. Also, we may ensure security and inter-
    connectivity of national information system," the spokesperson
    continued.

    [...]

    "We will allow anyone who uses open source software access to
    web-based services. Once that environment is made ready, then
    true competition will evolve," a spokesperson for the
    government said.

    Currently, Linux users are not able to use several key Korean
    web-based services. For example, many portals run by banks and
    government agencies support only Microsoft's Windows operating
    system and Internet Explore (IE) browser.

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Ryan Verner | 4 Oct 2003 17:39
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Re: linux-aus, I could goto jail for this!

On 4 Oct 2003 23:28:07 +0800, fxcked wrote
> Find old friends, or even old enemies.

HEH, and I thought this was a SCO thread.

R

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Leon Brooks | 5 Oct 2003 06:53
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Re: linux-aus, I could goto jail for this!

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 23:28, fxcked@... wrote:

Not sure how this one got through. I destroyed at least one other 
similar message from MailMan's hold queue this morning.

Cheers; Leon

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Leon Brooks | 5 Oct 2003 07:14
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Happy to see an LCA2004 banner today...

...on LWN.

Cheers; Leon

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Chris Samuel | 5 Oct 2003 14:20
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Friend looking for contacts in the OpenH323 project


/* Cc'd to Mick Morgan */

All,

An old friend of mine, Mick Morgan, from the UK is looking for contacts in the 
OpenH323 project - Con has already helpfully provided a lead to Craig 
Southeren, but anyone know anyone else ?

Reply-To: set to myself and Mick.

Chris
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