Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:02:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Hawkins <peter@clari.net.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <199804180002.RAA01341@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:54:25 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418094801.9904C-100000@dana.clari.net.au>
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> I know a guy who, some years ago went out to a school to bootstrap their old > mainframe from the console switch panel. It failed and it turned out they needed > some hardware driver or other and was about to leave for his car to get > the manual when some pimply teen grabbed the seat and started throwing > switches. "now try". It worked first time. He wrote the driver in his > head and keyed it in from the switch panel without resorting to paper. > Remember *that* next time you've got hor chin in your hands and are > staring through glazed eyes at a session of vi /usr/src/sys/pci/... This guy appears to have a lot of friends. I can't count the number of times I've heard that story from bewhiskered old farts. 8) Take another context, and ask how that kid is today. "Greg, the stop sign!" (If you don't understand, you won't.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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