From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 13:28:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6240837B401 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0109.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.109] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 179XI9-00019b-00; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:28:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE80AD4.53B4382B@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:28:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Ehlke Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? References: <3CE40759.7C584101@mindspring.com> <20020516220616.A51305@energyhq.homeip.net> <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Pete Ehlke wrote: > 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* 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. 8-) 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message