Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup forums- Was: sniff...bpgpis gone from 6.5
2008-04-09 20:58:48
Somebody shoot him and help him rest in
peace, the Microsoft cool ade has melted his brain.
Just kidding Jonathan.
Just thought I’d include this, saw
it on a site somewhere:
UNIX was out there doing real stuff before
windows was even a little blinking DOS prompt.
From:
Martin, Jonathan [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008
11:40 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Auburn vs. Netbackup
forums- Was: sniff...bpgpisgone from 6.5
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
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[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
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...bpgpisgone from 6.5
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:
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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
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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