Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 11:28:09 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd hosting. Message-ID: <200005080928.JAA16577@jhs.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 16:00:25 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.10005051119210.20724-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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> 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
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