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Date:      Sun, 19 May 2002 06:44:03 -0700
From:      Pete Ehlke <pde@ehlke.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The road ahead?
Message-ID:  <20020519064403.A6139@ehlke.net>
In-Reply-To: <p0511171db90ca65a2076@[10.9.8.215]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:21:27AM %2B0200
References:  <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> <20020516220616.A51305@energyhq.homeip.net> <3CE43D08.1FDBF0A3@mindspring.com> <20020517163624.GB9697@hades.hell.gr> <3CE58F73.1A7F50AF@mindspring.com> <p05111717b90b4c01f392@[10.9.8.215]> <3CE5B62B.2B26239B@mindspring.com> <p0511171bb90c8693adb1@[10.9.8.215]> <3CE6F154.989966DD@mindspring.com> <p0511171db90ca65a2076@[10.9.8.215]>

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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:21:27AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> 	My wife's company has the same policy, and they don't do it 
> either.  Whenever we go in on the weekends, I usually spend ten or 
> fifteen minutes going around the office and turning off all the 
> monitors -- the ones that have been on since Friday.
> 
Arrrgh. At my first paid sysadminning gig, the MVS system programmer
would do this. I always knew when he had been in on the weekend when, on
Monday morning, I'd get three or four calls from confused people in
sales and customer service complaining that their Xterm was dead.

Them: My Xterm is broken!!!! The screen won't come on!!! It always comes
on when I move my mouse!!! 

Me: Yeah, Mike worked over the weekend. The power switch for your
monitor is on the right side, near the top. Turn it on.

Them: Oh, I love you!!!

Me: *sigh*

-P.

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