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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/8/2014)

Hahahaha

One of the managers complained this morning that, as far as he can tell, most of my wardrobe is made up of geeky t-shirts. I'm not sure I see the problem there.

In fact, I need to extend the collection.

Maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1c3a/

Or maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e718/

I need to find my Crab Nebula shirt for tomorrow.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

GilaMonster (10/8/2014)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/8/2014)
Hahahaha
One of the managers complained this morning that, as far as he can tell, most of my wardrobe is made up of geeky t-shirts. I'm not sure I see the problem there.
In fact, I need to extend the collection.
Maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1c3a/
Or maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e718/
I need to find my Crab Nebula shirt for tomorrow.

My votes would be first for the interpretive dance shirt and second for the people person shirt.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

The problem with the dance shirt is, knowing my colleagues, some of them would ask for the interpretive dance. Probably multiple times.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (10/8/2014)
One of the managers complained this morning that, as far as he can tell, most of my wardrobe is made up of geeky t-shirts. I'm not sure I see the problem there.
In fact, I need to extend the collection.
Maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1c3a/
Or maybe with http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e718/
I need to find my Crab Nebula shirt for tomorrow.

I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.

Tom

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

TomThomson (10/8/2014)
I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.

I think my sysadmin would love that one.

Gail Shaw
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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (10/9/2014)
TomThomson (10/8/2014)
I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.
I think my sysadmin would love that one.

Talking about sysadmins...

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 7

Koen Verbeeck (10/9/2014)
GilaMonster (10/9/2014)
TomThomson (10/8/2014)
I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.
I think my sysadmin would love that one.
Talking about sysadmins...

Very cool, Koen. Here's my favorite shirt of all time.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

Ed Wagner (10/9/2014)
Koen Verbeeck (10/9/2014)
GilaMonster (10/9/2014)
TomThomson (10/8/2014)
I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.
I think my sysadmin would love that one.
Talking about sysadmins...
Very cool, Koen. Here's my favorite shirt of all time.

That is one my favorites too.

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 9

Had a great SQL in the City yesterday. I now have a lot to read and a lot more to research. Great seeing Jack and Grant again and great meeting Steve. Thanks for an excellent series of presentations on a topic I hadn't considered much before (CI, testing and deployment automation)

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

Could someone who knows their way around firewalls please help this network admin out?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1624301-1550-1.aspx

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 11

For what it is worth I PM'd the uber spammer and asked if they would stop posting useless comments to old posts. I said that I would love to see useful comments even to old threads but all the spamming of useless comments to 7 year old questions makes it hard for us to help the people who actually need help. He/She said they would try to reign it but didn't feel their comments were any worse than all the ones they see on current questions.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 12

Sean Lange (10/9/2014)
For what it is worth I PM'd the uber spammer and asked if they would stop posting useless comments to old posts. I said that I would love to see useful comments even to old threads but all the spamming of useless comments to 7 year old questions makes it hard for us to help the people who actually need help. He/She said they would try to reign it but didn't feel their comments were any worse than all the ones they see on current questions.

Thanks, Sean. I saw this morning that they changed their username again. I hope your PM does some good, as it was well beyond stupid there for a while.

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 13

Oh, this should be interesting... *grabs popcorn*

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 14

Koen Verbeeck (10/9/2014)
GilaMonster (10/9/2014)
TomThomson (10/8/2014)
I wish e718 had been available when I was younger; but I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f3cd/ would have been even better.
I think my sysadmin would love that one.
Talking about sysadmins...

XKCD doing a cartoon version of a BOFH episode?

Tom

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 15

GilaMonster (10/9/2014)
Could someone who knows their way around firewalls please help this network admin out?
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1624301-1550-1.aspx

what he's tring to do (and you said all firewalls should be able to do) isn't possible with Windows Firewall. I've always used an external Firewall for anything like that, and achieved it by specifying IP address ranges matched to VPN parameters.

Tom