Why I love smugmug:
Okay – that’s not the only reason :-)
Honestly, though, these guys know how to run a photo hosting site. Stellar support, incredibly compitent techies, great community, it has it all. It’s even a family-run business!
Anyway – I just thought I’d share this pic. A bunch of the smugmug staff were at the HQ this week and they decided to do a superhero-style photoshoot of the staff. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
I was browsing our company’s MSDN subscriber downloads page this afternoon and noticed that MS has Internet Explorer filed in the “Operating Systems” section of the downloads tree. That’s right…Microsoft puts their Internet Explorer web browser in the same category as the venerable MS-DOS, the ubiquitous Windows XP, and their newest shiny (DRM-laden) OS, Vista. Quite telling, isn’t it?
For those of you that are thoroughly confused at this point, I’ll refer you to two informative Wikipedia articles:
Web browser
Operating system
The short version is that a web browser is a (relatively) simple application that allows one to view and interact with web pages. An operating system, on the other hand, is an incredibly complex system that “runs” your computer. Web browsers and Operating systems *should not* be classified in the same category.
Here’s the subject line of an email that just slipped through our spam filter at work into our webmaster inbox:
I hardly ever commit genocide, for instance, and my facial hair is marginally less silly looking.
Now *that’s* funny.
I had a rather humorous email interchange with an ISP sales guy I’ve been working with for a new branch office. Along with business-class cable internet service, I requested 1 static IP address for the new office. The install date for the service is tomorrow, so I emailed our sales guy this morning to ask if they had allocated the IP address yet:
(IP addresses changed for security purposes)
Hi Ric -
Do you have our static IP address yet? If so, could you please forward it to me?
Thank you
-Erik
Simple enough, right?
Here’s his response:
Spoke to tech support 555-555-1212. They gave me 2541.243.124. Your dns is 52.93.15.211 and 52.93.15.212
Look odd to you? It should…2541.243.124 is not a valid IP address. I replied:
Ric – I think you missed a “.” in that IP address. Could you please clarify?
Thanks-
Erik
It’s easy enough to miss a “.” – I’ve certainly done it plenty of times.
Ric replies:
Spoke to tech support 555-555-1212. They gave me 2541.243.124 is your address. 2541.243.124 is your Static IP Address. Your sub net is 255.255.255.252.
Okay – *now* it’s ON:
Ric -
2541.243.124 is not a vaild IP address. Like the DNS server addresses you gave me, valid IP addresses are “dotted decimal” notation, like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. See here for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Addressing
Please re-check with support and verify the correct address.
Thanks-
Erik
Ugh…hopefully he’ll learn something from this…
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