Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:05:34 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: ip@mcc.ac.uk, ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk Cc: mladavac@metropolitan.at, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupid question: how do I cancel a PR? Message-ID: <19990527120534V.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 16:38:23 %2B0100 (BST)" <199905271538.QAA42453@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> References: <199905271538.QAA42453@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>
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From: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Re: stupid question: how do I cancel a PR? Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:38:23 +0100 (BST) > > > 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? > Biblical wisdom from Solomon: "depart quickly from the company of fools". Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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