You guys spend WAY to much time in cold,
loud rooms with no windows! ;-)
"Martin, Jonathan"
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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
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:14 AM
To: Clem Kruger; Haskins, Steve; Ed Wilts
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgpisgone
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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
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgp
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Good day all y'all,
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.
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on behalf of Haskins, Steve
Sent: Wed 2008/04/09 05:19 AM
To: Ed Wilts; Jeff Lightner
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And programming on punch cards…Oh,
what FUN!
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[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
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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)
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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