Article: 118509 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: Alistair J. R. Young Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Oh please, _how_ can I be of service to you?! Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:18:47 +0000 Organization: Arkane Systems Ltd. Sender: avatar-usenet@esther.arkane.net Approved: newsbastard@arkane.demon.co.uk Message-ID: References: <7f3142$j87$2@nnrp03.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arkane.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arkane.demon.co.uk:158.152.145.208 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 924215661 nnrp-03:17278 NO-IDENT arkane.demon.co.uk:158.152.145.208 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Disclaimer: The opinions below ARE my company's, because I OWN it! X-PGP-1: id=0x6A7AB399; fprnt=5C 27 43 25 6B 32 4D 6E E7 69 EC 7B 77 46 13 92 X-PGP-2: Mail pgpkey-avatar@arkane.demon.co.uk for my public key. X-License: For copyright and related information, please see: http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/avatar/postcopy.html X-Wanted: Developers to work on the architecture and code of a new object-, network- and neatstuff-oriented free operating system. Mail if interested. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.33 Lines: 43 Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!arkane.demon.co.uk!whos-awake-out-there!bofh.dot!arkane-co-astarial!arkane-net-esther!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:118509 On 15 Apr 1999 04:14:29 GMT, in message , void (== float) praised Shub-Internet thus: > You don't dislike chat because the name makes it sound frivolous, do you? > If chat were called conference, would you like it? *I* dislike it because people use it to interrupt me when I would rather not be interrupted (i.e., at any time, whatever I'm doing). Or, rather, they did right up to me inventi^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfinding a good technical reason why ours couldn't possibly be run on anything even vaguely server-like. ObAsr: People go on holiday. People leave hardware-type things that require fixing, necessitating long telephone calls to technical support to obtain relevant clues to merge into local cluebase. People, showing a truly amazing lack of thought, disable both the techies outside-line-access PIN numbers, and then bugger off leaving no-one minding the switchboard. Fuck 'em. They don't pay me *nearly* enough to use my mobile for that, so they'll just have to whine when they get back. Along with not having their shiny new colour laser, as the relevant PHB left without bothering to sign the cable order (among others). We set it up anyway, just to frustrate the bastards. And now to have a word or seven with our in-house e-mail virus collectors... (On the brighter side of the news, at least the recent security incident let me push through the God Himself Cometh Not Into My Machine Room policy. I'll get password expiry in there yet, see if I don't.) All back on Monday. Gods have mercy. Alistair -- Computational Thaumaturge, Deus Machinarum. -- Cerebrate of the Silicon Swarm. e-mail: avatar-sig@arkane.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/ "The shit of Rome." -- Cicero, on the people.