Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgpisgone from 6.5
2008-04-09 09:59:27
An old fart has spoken blasphemy against the master!
Microsoft disciples unite to protect the precious! Those evil Unix
Jedi won't get the better of us this time! Counter their system stability
and anti-trust legislation with systems that populate like rabbits and so much
money we wipe our buts with it! What? Solaris doing to Intel
processors? Community based Linux support and learning? Fire
marketing campaigns alpha, beta and gamma! Open engineering centers in
China, India and Taiwan!! Long live Bill Gates!
-Jonathan
Lumping in a marketer
like Bill Gates with TECHNICAL experts like Dennis Ritchie is plain silly.
Bill didn’t “create” anything – he saw an opportunity when IBM came knocking and
bought QDOS to resell to IBM. (We won’t talk about the fact that
QDOS was pretty much believed to be a knock off of CP/M). After DOS
became the main OS for IBM PC compatible systems he was able to force much of
the rest of the world into dependence on his other products not by their
technical superiority but by practices that got the DOJ in the U.S. to start an
anti-trust action against him and the E.U. which has now judged it as
monopolistic twice.
By the way – I’m pretty
sure it was us old farts that were joking about old farts.
From: Clem
Kruger [mailto:Clem AT re-thinking-it DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:58
AM To: Haskins, Steve; Ed
Wilts; Jeff Lightner Cc:
Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com; Jim Horalek;
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs.
Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp isgone from 6.5
Can someone please explain what am
"old fart" is?
There are only 3 certainties in
life, death, taxes and change. The last two we can control but death started the
day we were born.
Those of you who used the term "Old
Fart", just remember one day you will wake up and find yourself much older and
then you too will be offended by being called an old fart!
The changes we have seen through the
60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and now the 21st century has made us better
people and most of all we (old farts) are disciplined. You needed to drop a
try of cards once to understand discipline.
Will you be remembered when you are
gone? The old farts Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and many others
will be. Do you know why? Because they were the pioneers, because all we
had was a pair of pliers and some wire.
We never had memory leaks because
could not waste memory. Go and learn assembler and find out what a thrill it is
to do so much with very little.
I just hope that you are fit in mind
and body when it is your turn to be called an “old fart” so that you can ask
yourself “did I leave any foot prints others can follow”?
I took offence, but now enjoy
remembering the program sheets, the cards and ticker tape. The something we made
from nothing. It is great to say we were part of the pioneers and just hope the
pioneering spirit will continue.
Enjoy your life and have some
compassion.
Regards,
Clem.
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu on behalf of Haskins,
Steve Sent: Wed 2008/04/09
05:19 AM To: Ed Wilts; Jeff
Lightner Cc:
Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com; Jim Horalek;
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs.
Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp isgone from
6.5
And programming on
punch cards…Oh, what FUN!
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:50
PM To: Jeff
Lightner Cc:
Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com; Jim Horalek;
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs
Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com>
wrote:
We now prefer to be
called Chronologically Mature Methane Producers or ChMMPs (NOT to be pronounced
as Chimps so as not offend the Evolutinarilly
Challenged…)
An old fart like me can't remember a name *that*
long. I can remember paper tape though...
.../Ed (hiding out at SNW in the state
that defines old)
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