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From: milov@uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirovic)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX as literature
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:42:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7BA7AFF-0EA8-4843-A0C0-525D616FBB2E@uwlax.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00c101c68bb9$bd7f6050$4205a6c0@FERRARI>

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:42 AM, bgoodheart wrote:

[snip]
> This reminded me of a time not so long ago when I was seated in  
> Starbucks in
> Menlo Park enjoying my Caramel Macchiato Venti and overhearing a  
> heated
> debate between 6 or 7 guys about the GUI vs. command line issue. It  
> seemed
> to start when a couple of guys in one party, seemingly unknown to  
> the other
> party, who were talking about kde, rudely butted in to their  
> conversation.
> Anyway the debate got so verbal that in the end they were all  
> ushered out of
> Starbucks in an effort to keep the peace. How funny it was.

  a 'c | n > k' moment...



--
Milo Velimirović
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA
43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W
--
There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded  
the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the  
Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't.
"You are not expected to understand this."





  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.364.1149808191.1130.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-06-09 11:42 ` bgoodheart
2006-06-09 12:42   ` Milo Velimirovic [this message]
2006-06-11 16:18   ` Tim Newsham
2006-06-12  1:22     ` Wesley Parish
2006-06-09 12:41 Norman Wilson
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2006-06-08  6:06 Wolfgang Helbig
2006-06-08  6:20 ` Lyrical Nanoha
2006-06-08 17:08   ` Gregg C Levine
2006-06-08 19:41     ` Michael Parson
     [not found] <447E9540.2020003@io.dk>
     [not found] ` <200606011357.11990.aren.tyr@gawab.com>
     [not found]   ` <447F0062.8060302@daleco.biz>
     [not found]     ` <447F4E7C.8050404@bitfreak.org>
     [not found]       ` <20060603195531.3c634eca@hydrocodone.org>
2006-06-08  3:11         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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