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dennyUpdate, February 2012: I received an email recently from Adam, claiming that the various trolling efforts detailed in this post and its comments were by a disgruntled former employee that he had a professional falling out with.
I don't see any way to prove this either way, but thinking about it, even if it was him, he now apparently wishes he hadn't done it, which indicates an improvement in maturity levels over the last 5 years.
So, I'm going to put the original post behind a cut, and leave this notice at the top - either Adam is the victim of a bit of deliberate reputational damage, in which case he has my sympathies, or at worst he's a better man now than he was then, in which case he has my congratulations.
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Today in ##linux on Freenode:
<ZeuGiRDoR> elk-x: use module-assistant to make your own ieee80211 module
<elk-x> i´m pretty noob, how do i do that exactly?
<Adam0> elk-x: Are you romanian?
<elk-x> no
<Adam0> Then why are you using backticks for apostrophe's you tard
<elk-x> german keyboard
<Adam0> hah you must be a fag then
(the observant will notice that during this witty exchange Adam0 (a) used a superfluous apostrophe in the word apostrophes, and (b) mistakenly referred to a forward tick as a backtick)
So, in private message, I advise a little bit of manners, but this advice doesn't seem to be well received:
<denny> be polite to other people please
<Adam0> Suck my cock pls
And, back in the channel:
<Adam0> [15:58] <denny> be polite to other people please
<Adam0> what a fucking homo
* ChanServ gives channel operator status to denny
* denny sets ban on *!*@*.apnicsolutions.com
* denny has kicked Adam0 from ##linux
So I'm curious, and I go to look at www.apnicsolutions.com to see what kind of company they are. They're a smallish tech consultancy, based in the UK as it happens, and their company structure can be seen here:
http://www.apnicsolutions.com/hierarchy.pdf (linked from http://apnicsolutions.com/index.php?_p=company)
He's the company Director.
How do you get to be beyond about 12 years old, let alone get to a position where you are managing other people, and still think that calling people 'fag' and 'homo' on IRC is in any way clever or funny? Honestly, it's bad enough that we have to deal with american teenagers insulting each other on there, but an adult?
So anyway, if you or your company were thinking of hiring Mr Adam Palmer, or his company APNIC Solutions, you may wish to know that's he's apparently not a very polite or friendly person, and he really doesn't seem to fit in well in a non-playground environment.
I don't see any way to prove this either way, but thinking about it, even if it was him, he now apparently wishes he hadn't done it, which indicates an improvement in maturity levels over the last 5 years.
So, I'm going to put the original post behind a cut, and leave this notice at the top - either Adam is the victim of a bit of deliberate reputational damage, in which case he has my sympathies, or at worst he's a better man now than he was then, in which case he has my congratulations.
========== ( original post ) ==========
Today in ##linux on Freenode:
<ZeuGiRDoR> elk-x: use module-assistant to make your own ieee80211 module
<elk-x> i´m pretty noob, how do i do that exactly?
<Adam0> elk-x: Are you romanian?
<elk-x> no
<Adam0> Then why are you using backticks for apostrophe's you tard
<elk-x> german keyboard
<Adam0> hah you must be a fag then
(the observant will notice that during this witty exchange Adam0 (a) used a superfluous apostrophe in the word apostrophes, and (b) mistakenly referred to a forward tick as a backtick)
So, in private message, I advise a little bit of manners, but this advice doesn't seem to be well received:
<denny> be polite to other people please
<Adam0> Suck my cock pls
And, back in the channel:
<Adam0> [15:58] <denny> be polite to other people please
<Adam0> what a fucking homo
* ChanServ gives channel operator status to denny
* denny sets ban on *!*@*.apnicsolutions.com
* denny has kicked Adam0 from ##linux
So I'm curious, and I go to look at www.apnicsolutions.com to see what kind of company they are. They're a smallish tech consultancy, based in the UK as it happens, and their company structure can be seen here:
http://www.apnicsolutions.com/hierarchy.pdf (linked from http://apnicsolutions.com/index.php?_p=company)
He's the company Director.
How do you get to be beyond about 12 years old, let alone get to a position where you are managing other people, and still think that calling people 'fag' and 'homo' on IRC is in any way clever or funny? Honestly, it's bad enough that we have to deal with american teenagers insulting each other on there, but an adult?
So anyway, if you or your company were thinking of hiring Mr Adam Palmer, or his company APNIC Solutions, you may wish to know that's he's apparently not a very polite or friendly person, and he really doesn't seem to fit in well in a non-playground environment.
