From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Tue 15 May 2001 - 19:29:51 IST
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:25:58PM +0000 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:11:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:22:28PM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> >
> > > Basically we have about 12 linux boxes on desktops around the building (The
> > > "production" boxes are all looked after already). I'd imagine this is
> >
> > Ahh - so the weather in Ireland is produced on Linux boxes ! No wonder it's
> > so shitty ! If only it was produced on Windows 2000 boxes, we'd have
> > wonderful weather all the time.
> >
> > Yours in rain,
>
> Alas no! The weather is produced on various boxes running various proprietry OS's
>
> If it was produced on linux boxes shure we'd have grand weather altogether!
>
> Yours out of the rain 'cos I find it makes the keyboard soggy.
>
> Conor
Worse still, our M$ priest^H^H^H^H^H sysadmin has bought in all the new
boxes with W2k to replace the W95 boxes in the forecast office.
Conor (who had to wait for 45 minutes for him to "format c:" 'cos he
wouldn't let me do a 10 second /usr/sbin/fdisk to blow it away instead)
-- Conor Daly Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9, Ireland Ph +353 1 8064217 Fax +353 1 8064275 ------------------------------------ 6:26pm up 1 day, 19:31, 5 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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