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greatfog

16년 전discuss

The yyyTimeStamp form could be useful if the program also dealt with postage stamps, rubber stamps, and food stamps.

greatfog

16년 전discuss

The Register [http://www.theregister.co.uk/]

discussion by recovered and recovering sysadmins [alt.sysadmin.recovery]

greatfog

16년 전discuss

If there were no internet, I would subscribe to magazines and visit the library.

greatfog

16년 전discuss

[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer]

greatfog

17년 전discuss

Lucas Kovar, Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass

[http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html]

Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available texts on the subject and 2) that this whole exercise was a complete waste of my time.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

I have 5 tabs open, including this one.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

You ask me what I think of the University of Waterloo? WATFOR?

greatfog

17년 전discuss

Le jour de gloire est arrivé !

greatfog

17년 전discuss

From alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/]

  Perhaps Abby Franquemont summarized the life of a sysadmin the best, when she described us as:

  "disgruntled, disenchanted with things we used to really get a kick out of,
  foul tempered, hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, overworked, with no real social
  life to speak of."

  Or perhaps she was being optimistic.

I have not had responsibility for the operation of a large computer and communication system since the dinosaur era, but I found the work so repetitive and tedious that it motivated me to go back to college and get an EE degree.

Over a decade of lurking on asr shows that some sysadmins preserve sharp perceptions, wide-ranging interests, and pointed communication skills.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

[attitude=prudent]

I do not want my company's communications disrupted by an FBI raid on a service firm that turned out to be a criminal enterprise. I had best look for a service provider that has been _pre-investigated_ by the government. After all, I have a responsibility to my company's shareholders and customers.

[/attitude]

greatfog

17년 전discuss

"the gold standard" -- Amen. WordPerfect 5.1 fulfilled every one of my (modest) document needs. If I buggered something up, the View Codes mode allowed me to find and fix the embuggerance. I bought Microsoft Office only because response to job postings required resumes in Word .doc format.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

Report Shows Alleged Fraud Against AT&T, Verizon [http://cbs11tv.com/technology/Core.IP.Networks.2.975776.html]

greatfog

17년 전discuss

"One day soon there will be car companies that have 200 employees."

And they will all be filling out forms to assure the government that their cars have automatic restraint systems, automatic braking, automatic collision avoidance, automatic position reporting, automatic speed reporting, and police-operated remote shutdown.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

Most things are calmer after you strangle them.

greatfog

17년 전discuss

But see "TCHunt - Quickly Search Drives For TrueCrypt Files" (http://16systems.com/TCHunt/).

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