From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 17 17:06:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17284 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17193 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:05:52 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01341; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804180002.RAA01341@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Peter Hawkins cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:54:25 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:02:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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