From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 8 14:15:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7067437B663 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 5169 invoked from network); 8 May 2000 21:19:54 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 8 May 2000 21:19:54 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhs.muc.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16577; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:28:09 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <200005080928.JAA16577@jhs.muc.de> To: spork Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: freebsd hosting. From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 16:00:25 EDT." Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 11:28:09 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > We've also run into downright strange things with BA North techs. Twice > we've had them leave gear on site, and the customer reported finding: > > -in one, neosporin and condoms > -in another vaseline and visine > > I don't even want to know how these items were used during the line > repair. I'm English (in Germany), & have no idea what neosporin & visine are ? possibly American brand medicinal goods ? inded possibly better not to know ? As this list is International, I'll mention that "vaseline" is a trade mark for what is better genericly known as petroleum jelly, (also common in Britian BTW). There are genuine engineering uses for petroleum jelly :-) EG look inside a good quality transistor radio, if the large white nylon cog wheel on the tuning capacitor is a 2 part one, you will see the 2 parts are vaseline lubricated, with a spring to brace the 2 cogs in opposite directions, so there is no slack, just one example, many other uses, it's useful in a technicians toolkit, for many other chassis/door/slider type things .... look inside a cdrom drive, it's often on the head seek spiral rod etc. 2 containers of vaseline are safer than one, one for human use (abraded skin/ nuckles etc on equipment racks ?), & 1 for machine use (rack sliders with ball bearings etc ?), one doesn't want cross contamination of metal fillings ! Vaseline chemically attacks the material many condoms are made of, one can only hope/assume each item is used appropriately :-) Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Umsonst: FreeBSD + 3200 packages, sources, Netscape, WordPerfect & StarWriter. RaucherKrebsNebel erregt mein Kopfschmerz & Angriffslust: Schnupftabak Nutzen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message