From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 15: 7:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ucan.foad.org (ucan.foad.org [64.173.36.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4671937B476 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 15:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pde@localhost) by ucan.foad.org (foad/FOAD2.0) id g4JM6fj21055; Sun, 19 May 2002 15:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:06:41 -0700 From: Pete Ehlke To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020519150641.C21491@ehlke.net> References: <3CE43D08.1FDBF0A3@mindspring.com> <20020517163624.GB9697@hades.hell.gr> <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com> <3CE5B62B.2B26239B@mindspring.com> <3CE6F154.989966DD@mindspring.com> <20020519064403.A6139@ehlke.net> <3CE80AD4.53B4382B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CE80AD4.53B4382B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:28:04PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:28:04PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Oh oh oh! Anecdotes! 8-). > > I had a user call me to complain that our software had killed her > Wyse 50 terminal. > > After discussing it for a *long time*, most of which was calming > her down and promising to have the terminal repaired, if it really > was our fault, I had her hit the spacebar, and, voila! The > terminal came back to life! > > It turned out that our software automated a number of tasks she > formerly did by hand, but of course, not instantaneously, so now > running our software to do the work was the first time she had > ever left the keyboard idle long enough for the factory default > for the screen saver to kick in. > Heh. I had a user who used to quite regularly backspace over her prompt on a Wyse. She'd freak out, claim it was broken, and demand that the sysadmin staff come down and fix it for her. This happened over and over and over again, and she never could keep it straight in her head how to fix her 'problem'. We ended up writing something that would locate her tty, clear the screen, and send a crlf, and running it every time she called. "Ohhhhh... did you fix it?" But now we're drifting into stories that I originally told back in the early days of the scary devil monestary, and I think I've recovered too much to want to dredge up too many of those :/ -Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message