Article: 170161 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: derick@xmission.xmission.com (Derick Siddoway) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Why I hate this particular Monday Date: 8 Nov 2000 07:02:19 GMT Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/ Lines: 31 Approved: by default Message-ID: References: <7ir3dh5djwm.fsf@opus.nextel.no> <8u7ibv$rii$1@news.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: xmission.xmission.com X-Trace: news.xmission.com 973666939 6909 198.60.22.20 (8 Nov 2000 07:02:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 2000 07:02:19 GMT X-No-Archive: yes X-no-ahbou: yes User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (SunOS) Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!xmission!nnrp.xmission!derick Xref: news.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:170161 It is said by some that Greg Andrews once wrote: >They can be, but first you need to remember Rule Number 1: The Luser >Is Lying To You.[1] Oh, you mean Forbes' Law #2. The whole list of Forbes' Laws is: 1. No amount of documentation can substitute for a quick peek at the source code. 2. The user is always lying. 3. Never trust an error message. If the computer knew what the problem really was, it would fix it. 4. The importance of any email is inversely proportional to the number of addressees. 5. Sleep is optional. 6. Corporate email is a distributed intelligence test. Not everyone passes. Forbes' mottos: 1. It's Unix. How hard can it be? 2. It's Unix. What could possibly go wrong? The mottos should be followed by a hollow laugh, for proper effect. -- Derick Siddoway This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML derick@xmission.com files are the pithy descriptions on paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. - N Stephenson, "In the Beginning was the Command Line"