[nflug] UNIX-HATERS Handbook

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 1 10:21:55 EDT 2006


Well, the story I'm thinking of involved a VAX running BSD.  I think I saw a
reference to a fellow by the name of John Sokol.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Bootz <eric at bootz.us> wrote:

> I heard the story also, from a Novell Netware Instructor that worked for
> IKON before it was ITT ...isn't netware's base OS unix or very similar
> to unix anyway :) ...so the story can be swayed.
> 
> 
> Darin Perusich wrote:
> > i've heard that story before but it was a netware server.
> >
> > me thinks it's urban legend :)
> >
> > Robert Meyer wrote:
> >   
> >> Yeah, I've heard it all before.  Somehow, with all of it's problems, *nix
> just
> >> keeps plugging along, hidden away in the dark recesses of data centers
> where
> >> nobody ever goes 'cuz they just keep running...
> >>
> >> Did I ever tell the story of the Unix server that needed to be shut down
> and
> >> retired but they couldn't find it 'cuz it had been walled in during
> >> construction 3 years prior?
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> --- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> VERY GOOD !  It makes me happy to realize people were fighting the same
> >>> issues 10 years ago that we fight today...
> >>>
> >>> However the book makes me think of a Quote from Churchill 
> >>> (Substitute *nix for Democracy)
> >>> Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world
> of
> >>> sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.
> Indeed,
> >>> it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except
> all
> >>> those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Speech in the
> House
> >>> of Commons (11 November 1947)
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message ----
> >>> From: Adam Laurich <adam.cadpro at gmail.com>
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> >>> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:46:57 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [nflug] UNIX-HATERS Handbook
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