From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 17 14:10:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19324 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19301 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id IAA14296; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:40:29 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702172210.IAA14296@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A Parable In-Reply-To: from Charles Mott at "Feb 17, 97 11:05:36 am" To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:40:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charles Mott stands accused of saying: > A physicist is sleeping in his bedroom. He sees a fire burning in one > corner of the room and a bucket of water in another corner. He puts out > the fire and goes back to sleep. > > The mathemetician wakes up and says, "Ah, a solution!" He then goes > back to sleep without doing anything. > > The FreeBSD team wakes up and says, "Let's audit the entire house for > fires, termite damage, worn carpet, and scratches in the walls -- starting > first in the kitchen." They then go back to sleep. The resident paranoid, lurking in the hall with a bad case of the munchies, decides that the combustion of the atmosphere within the house is imminent and tries to fill every cubic millimetre with a hydrocarbon-propelled filling material. (eg. Space Invader) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[