OT: My Vote on Fairlite -- I demand a recount :-)

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, May 25, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>Hell, I'm from Florida...
>
>I've seen Mark go off on people on this list in the last couple years.
>But then, I've seen JPR, JE, and for that matter, myself, go off on
>people.
>
>This was not going off.
>
>I suspect anyone who thinks it was has never been paid to fix the sort
>of breakage he's talking about -- or worse, been the network admin
>responsible for it's results, even if they often had no control to
>prevent it.

I've seen things like Mark described happen to people I don't normally
consider stupid (e.g me when my program that checks for missing user home
directories, and fixes their permissions didn't check to see where the home
directory was -- and started merrily doing a ``chmod -R username: /'', not
exactly what I wanted :-).

On the other hand, I've had to deal with customers who complained that
their floppy disk drive was bad, only to find their disks conveniently
stored by the computer -- held to the side of a file cabinet with
refrigerator magnets.

There is, however, a big difference between stupidity and ignorance.
Ignorance is curable while stupidity generally isn't (sometimes I wish it
were more frequently terminal).

Bill
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