Article: 149652 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: Vendors redux Date: 26 Jun 2000 23:38:53 GMT Organization: TSS Inc. Lines: 43 Approved: abuse@scarydevil.com Message-ID: <8j8pid$1rd9$1@citadel.in.taronga.com> References: <8j7rer$u3a$1@citadel.in.taronga.com> <8j8eib$iea$1@spectra.a2000.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: citadel.in.taronga.com X-Trace: citadel.in.taronga.com 962062733 60841 10.0.0.43 (26 Jun 2000 23:38:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@taronga.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jun 2000 23:38:53 GMT X-No-Archive: yes X-No-AHBOU: yes X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Path: b4.mv.meer.net!Usenet!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-proxy.baileynm.com!web.nmti.com!citadel.in.taronga.com!not-for-mail Xref: b4.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:149652 In article <8j8eib$iea$1@spectra.a2000.nl>, Paul Boven wrote: >On 26 Jun 2000 15:04:59 GMT, Peter da Silva wrote: >>You're lucky. Last time a Dead Rat box hosed its network I had to reverse >>engineer the magic words by reading a bunch of uncommented Python. >The Parrot Sketch, I hope? No, it would be more like this: Me: I'd like some documentation, please. RH: Right you are sir, would you like that in -man, -ms, texinfo, latex, or HTML? Me: How about some -man documentation? RH: I'm sorry, I'm afraid you wouldn't like that. It's full of markup. Me: I like markup. RH: No, I couldn't possibly sell you documentation like this. How about some XML? Me: Um, how about HTML? RH: I'm sorry, we're all out of that. Me: OK, OK, XML then. RH: Whoops, all out of that too. Me: Plain text files? RH: Nope. Me: Texinfo? RH: Certainly sir, here you are... whoops, the info reader's broken. I can't serve those. Me: MS macros? RH: Not installed. Me: Have you any documentation at all? RH: Oh certainly sir. Me: Latex? RH: No. Me: Comments in the config files? RH: No. Me: Comments in the source code? RH: No. Me: Web site? RH: No. ... -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC.