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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:43:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140618184341.GC19046@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09fffa6e9f2fdb29ab25825d19594d8e.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>

scj at yaccman.com scripsit:

> With respect to Dec's OSs vs Unix, I remember a visit from a Dec repair
> person who ran "preventive maintenance" on our disc that wiped out the
> file system!  His excuse was that Dec didn't support "permanent storage"
> on the disc at the time...

Next time, mount a scratch monkey.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
The penguin geeks is happy / As under the waves they lark
The closed-source geeks ain't happy / They sad cause they in the dark
But geeks in the dark is lucky / They in for a worser treat
One day when the Borg go belly-up / Guess who wind up on the street.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 15:03 Norman Wilson
2014-06-18 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 16:58   ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:55     ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 16:50 ` scj
2014-06-18 18:43   ` John Cowan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-20 13:05 Douglas Comer
2014-06-19  1:49 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 21:21 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-18 22:55 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 17:48 Douglas Comer
2014-06-18 22:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 11:06 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 14:43 ` iking
2014-06-18 14:48   ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 18:21   ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-15 18:19 Norman Wilson
2014-06-16 16:13 ` iking
2014-06-16 22:01   ` Gregg Levine
2014-06-17  1:38     ` John Cowan
2014-06-17  1:56       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-17  3:13       ` iking
2014-06-17 12:14         ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 16:21           ` Ian King

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