Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 01:14:53 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another canidate for fortune? (Was: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <365CFFED.47D2FABF@airnet.net> References: <1045.912060795@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Tell you what, Jordan: If you're ever hit by a car, remind me to blame > > you for leaving the house. > > <terry-lambert-mode> > > Assuming that I was hit by the car while crossing the street outside a > cross-walk and without looking first, this is a good analogy if you > don't quibble about the fact that the blame would more correctly fall > upon my failure to look where I was going than on the act of simply > leaving my house. It also supports my point, however, so I guess I'd > also have to thank you for the fine analogy and congradulate you on > finally getting the idea after having so many people attempt (and > fail) to inject it directly into your head with the aid of particle > accellerators and such. > > If you're using getting hit by a car as symbology for "a random act of > god", on the other hand, then it's unfortunately a rather poor analogy > on account of the fact that it a) shows a fundamental lack of > understanding about what precipitates the great majority of auto > accidents (driver error) and b) incorrectly equates the perils of > system administration with that of random meteor impacts and other > events completely outside one's control. A good system administrator > has a great deal more control over their environment than that and can > take a wide variety of preventive measures not available to the > Extinction Event Scenario folks in order to prevent situations exactly > like yours from occurring at all. > > Oh yeah, and transitive closure over a virtualized interface boundry. > I almost forgot that bit. > > </terry-lambert-mode> IMHO, very funny. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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