From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 19 6:44: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ucan.foad.org (ucan.foad.org [64.173.36.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C74D37B405 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 06:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pde@localhost) by ucan.foad.org (foad/FOAD2.0) id g4JDi3m32590 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 19 May 2002 06:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 06:44:03 -0700 From: Pete Ehlke To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020519064403.A6139@ehlke.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:21:27AM +0200 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 On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:21:27AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > My wife's company has the same policy, and they don't do it > either. Whenever we go in on the weekends, I usually spend ten or > fifteen minutes going around the office and turning off all the > monitors -- the ones that have been on since Friday. > 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* -P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message