From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01b701c0819b$05481d20$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010118210842.3BD3B199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:07:17 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f983818-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 yeah, well, russ i've had a pretty 'rare' day. i've fought to install plan 9 on 'coma' [my laptop] and frankly i'm kinda sick of it. 3 thousand unix/linux commands do not inspire me (coma runs '98). i would be more than happy to install it on a partition that jis ust waiting for it, but i don't like using or fighting windows. this was my day: [i am between contracts, on full pay. it's my company's job to find me another one] at 1530 i got called out to a site i'd never seen and was told to stay there until it was fixed. an hour later i was there. it bordered on (or was) blackmail. i don't do that shit. i go for an interview, i sign a contract, i go to the job. i am not employed to do this stuff. i am gonna fuck this headhunter's shit up. at least tomorrow i can wear my network police jacket. funny the [network] problem dissappeared when everyone went home. so i left. some massive collision problem on a DHCP class C net 100.?.? -- fucken amateurs. just got into 'kilgore' mode; stormed around, telling people: do this do that get me this get my that NOW! if i'd had the smarts i woulda taken coma. it has the shit to find the problem. funny thing was, even tragically hungover, on no lunch, i knew how to do thas shit. hardware i'd never even seen, but it ain't that hard -- divide and conquer. boy am i pissed. so, russ, cut me some slack, tonight.