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- My avatar
- My avatarYa'll get your own vote, though I have it out there in general discussion land, too. In response to the following pm I received, should I change the avatar or no?One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:From: jgeverett@...Subject: Violent imageMessage: I am curious,...
- Tags: avatar, vote, avatar police, dpetrak, sMoRTy
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- Need opinions
- Need opinionsSo, was this supposed to be funny and I'm just missing it? Or is it just funny, because it wasn't meant to be?---------------------------One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:From: jgeverett@...Subject: Violent imageMessage: I am curious, no, disturbed, by the violence in your animation....
- Tags: avatar, Avatar, pm, huh?, private message, dpetrak, off-topic, Jim, Office Space
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- Ten words or less: I choose my Operating Systems based on ________
- Ten words or less: I choose my Operating Systems based on ________In ten words or less, complete the following sentence: "I choose an Operating System based on _______"OK, I'll open it up a bit: use as many words as you can!typoYou'd be better off with ten words.Opening it up to...
- Tags: server, os, operating system, tenwords, dpetrak, Linux, job
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- BFilmFan
- Do you want your 1000 points?You give me 1000 points??? What do I have togive you?? What can I use the points for???Do you want some of my points??I will trade you a bad movie for them.Oh a bad movie for them? What's the movie?You'd have to give...
- Tags: movie
- Q&A 2006-05-15
- Does NeilB deserve credit for the funny?
- NeilB - You were awarded 1000 pts for having the funniest Friday Yuk last week.Thanks!No one else should respond to this question lest they get a demerit...:_|if you wish to award me points then I will take them on the basis that they are merely a loan and you must...
- Tags: dpetrak, career, NeilB
- Q&A 2006-04-24
- Help me give away my points!
- OK, I still have 4,118,939 techpoints. I have only managed to give away 150,000 from the three questions I have asked.I was reminded today, from Jay's post and subsequent followups to it, that TechRepublic contracts these points from Drew Carey (Thanks, Max) and that there really isn't any good...
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- Test
- I'll create a reply like the one about which I am concerned...'NEW'http://www.microsoft.comtestOKThat didn't do it...http://www.microsoft.comIt seems that the post with the problem had no real title... but I don't know whyGOT ITIf someone posts with a blank title, and the first line of the post is a URL, guess what...
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
- Whoa Nelly!
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11193-0.html?forumID=4&threadID=192198&messageID=1982759From the previous post, I clicked on the title of this one. It attempted to forward me to the site which is denoted in the first line of the post.You guys aren't escaping the ' in the title or something?Oh, clicking on Next allowed me to get to the...
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
- myWorkspace
- Thanks for the upgrade!First thing I noticed, though, is that on this page just the myWorkspace part of the site the gray border doesn't scale. Well, not in FireFox. Works fine for IE, though.HUGE OVERSIGHT!!!!The "posts by my contacts" is missing.Please tell me if there is ANY other...
- Tags: Web browsers, myWorkspace
- Discussion threads 2006-03-13
- Peer product review
- If there aer going to be that many discussions going on, what was it 50 posts??, perhaps this needs a new topic header of its own.Sorry for the numerous discussionsWe are creating them in a batch. It's a one time thing.Criminy!How much you want to bet we ignore them wholesale?...
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- ugh! spammed
- Beganny, why so many posts?!?!Sorry - but it'll be worth it!Setting up a great new service here at TechRepublic! Just a one-time set up pain, pure enjoyment here on out...Stay tuned!
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- tjsanko - new member?
- tjsanko - new member?Thanks for letting me know that I punch like a girl. But I wonder what your point is.For all - here's the email he sent:One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:From: tjsanko@...Subject: You puch like a girl...Message: Wrist straight, and turn...
- Tags: E-mail, new member
- Discussion threads 2006-02-06
- "My discussions"
- Where did this menu bar go?HehNvermind...Found itBut I will ask...Is there a page with a list of planned changes? Or ones that have occurred?We usually tag them "site improvements"Here is a link to the tag results page for "site improvements." I generally tag upcoming items that way.http://techrepublic.com.com/5260-1-0.html?query=site%20improvementsHey SmortyI just...
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2005-06-10
- iPod giveaway from TR
- So... There have been only two winners?http://techrepublic.com.com/1200-22-5672734.htmlWhat gives? Budget cuts?No, we've picked six......and they've all been notified. Getting all six to sign, notarize, and return the legal release forms has been FAR more cumbersome a process than we expected. Who knew it was this hard to give stuff away?(Well,...
- Tags: Apple iPod, contest, dpetrak, feedback, http://techrepublic.com.com/1200-22-5672734.html, ipod, techrepublic, tr
- Discussion threads 2005-06-09
- Need software suggestion - also Q&A 50k
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6239-0.html?forumID=52&threadID=172700&start=0I need to communicate better/faster with the end users during outages of various sorts. My idea of the solution is some sort of program that sits on each workstation as a service, listening for status changes. The systray icon changes color and/or pops up a communications bubble when...
- Tags: 000 q&a points, 50, dpetrak, e-mail server, server, software, voicemail, windows software
- Discussion threads 2005-04-27
- Software wanted - need advice
- Software wanted - need adviceMy network isn't perfect and neither is my team. We have had too many major outages, some human error - some hardware error, lately. For various reasons, we need a speedier method to communicate to the userbase that we have some sort of issue.A...
- Tags: dpetrak, server, software, Web site
- Q&A 2005-04-27
- AARGH!! What the...?!
- AARGH!! What the...?!So you changed the layout again, in the middle of the day.. I missed the announcement again...But WHY is the first "Featured Discussion" the urgent staff post????Crap...ALSO...Now when i click on one of the discussions, the visited status of the link doesn't change to let me know...
- Tags: Colin, Discussion, dpetrak, HOT Discussions, off-topic, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2005-03-22
- Blackberry & Meeting Requests...
- Does anyone know how, if possible at all, to accept/decline a meeting invitation on a Blackberry?HmmI think you just open it, click the wheel and select either accept or decline. [even with comments if you choose]dpektrak........If you're not going to answer the question.... don't post a reply!Sorry dpetrak....I didn't see...
- Tags: BES, BES user, desktop, dpetrak, networking, RIM BlackBerry, Tom.Murasky@...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
- Ethics
- EthicsThere are gray areas, given... But in the wifi thread I have seen some people state, basically:"If the users are too stupid to know better, I'm taking advantage of them - no problem. In fact, I might even change some settings if I feel like it."This got me...
- Tags: career, dpetrak, ethics, Golden Rule, information technology, Kant, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2005-01-28
- Pls see Q&A site
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6239-0.html?forumID=40&threadID=166881&start0It's worth 50k.ClosedThanks for playing. Enjoy the points.Should I have added a 0?i LOVE your avatar!!!VERY nice!ThanksCan't wait to see what yours will look like!
- Tags: dpetrak
- Discussion threads 2005-01-20
