Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:38:23 +0100 (BST) From: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> To: mladavac@metropolitan.at (Ladavac Marino) Cc: ip@mcc.ac.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stupid question: how do I cancel a PR? Message-ID: <199905271538.QAA42453@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179624@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> from Ladavac Marino at "May 27, 1999 12:30:56 pm"
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> > I think the subject line says it all, although I'm tempted to include
> > a long
> > and angry rant about useless engineers, shite hardware and the bad
> > attitude
> > of the management at "europe's premier research supercomputer
> > facility"...
> [ML] Please, do tell [follow-ups redirected to -chat]
Rather than rant, let me seek wisdom.
How on earth do you folks deal with the problem of people who are infected to
the point of insanity with the idea that computers crash all the time? How do
you convince a person whos only experience of computers is Microslop software
that you an operating system shouldn't crash unless there's some hardware
problem? Or that just because a PC happily runs Win '95 that it doesn't mean
it'll function as a high-volume mail hub or web cache? How do you get though
to people that replacing one lot of crap memory with another lot of equally
crap memory from the same supplier doesn't mean that it "must now be a
software problem" when it still doesn't work?
Oh well. I think I'll just go for another ultra-cynical .sig and get back
into my box.
Ian.
--
Network Unit, Manchester Computing, The University, Manchester, UK.
mail: ip@mcc.ac.uk | phone: +44-161-275-6006 | fax: +44-161-275-6040
"Europe's Premier Research Supercomputing Facility"
We'd rather be down for a week than spend $50 fixing hardware.
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