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The All Seeing Eye. 8/16/2004

I’m back on the internerd again. Sort of. We’re using a gateway connected to a dial up modem, and it’s being shared between 20 some users. You can imagine what the download speed is like. I was even more mortified to learn that several users are running P2P sharing software. The bandwidth available must be measured in single bytes, probably. Some people are just too fucking stupid to understand that just because they wish to download music, porn and images for their fucking cell phones, that others are inconvenienced by their selfishness.

I had a chat, and when I say chat, I mean that I was barely restraining my temper, with one of the culprits. I didn’t mention to him that I had taken a surreptitious look at his program list, as well as sifting through his cache and history. I have enough evidence on him to get him fired. Which is an ace card I’m saving for a rainy day. This fuck is not an engineer, or even qualified in any one particular thing. He’s told me that he has experience in radiology and is a qualified radiation tech, but after a year of working with this guy and his fucking attitude, I’ve discovered that his knowledge of anything in particular is very shallow. But he goes around telling people how things should be done in a very arrogant manner.

Anyway, after talking to him, his attitude was, “What the hell do I care?” I sighed, and just walked away. Some people just don’t get it.

I’ve also noticed that there are people on the internet whom I’ve met recently who have this “I know it all” attitude. Thinking of that, I remember something I read on the notice board of the Royal Selangor Flying Club many years ago. The notice said, “New pilots who think they know it all, are an irritation to those who do.” Some of us, in my circle of friends, have been on the internet in one form or another for the past 10 to 12 years. Think about that figure for a minute. When you were running around in your school uniform, with your pubic hair barely beginning to show, we were running around being BBS bandits, running telnet and winsock and addressing machines on a hardware level. We ran phreaks and hacks that you can only do in your dreams. Writing a sub-routine in BASIC to address a driver incompatability problem was easier for us than picking up the phone and ordering a pizza. A little humility goes a long way, especially when talking to dinosaurs like us. We opened up the initial frontiers of what you now know as the Internet. We’ve probably forgotten a lot about computers anyway. But we’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever learn.

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