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- From: cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley)
- Subject: Re: Making ``.plan'' EXECUTE a Program ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.124123.5956@math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul22.150239.28282@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:41:23 GMT
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- spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul22.124403.18751@math.waterloo.edu>, cpshelle@neumann.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley) writes:
- > >
- > >I have a piped .plan file, and a cron job that wakes up every morning
- > >to restart it if it's busted.
- >
- > Great, but meanwhile finger will just sit there waiting any time someone
- > fingers you.
-
- I've observed the mean time between failures at this site is
- sufficiently longer than 24 hours so that this is not a problem.
-
- [much whining about NFS]
-
- Are you fishing for a sympathy card?
-
- > None of which deals with the underlying question of motivation. With
- > all due respect, I think there's an element of ego involved, "Aren't I
- > clever to have figured out that you fingered me" or else it's
- > paranoia, "Gosh, people could be fingering me AND I WON'T EVEN KNOW IT!"
- > What's so important about knowing who fingered you?
-
- Two things. One is that it gives (gave) me something to do while
- avoiding my thesis. The second is the tremendous fear and loathing it
- apparently inspires in others, such as yourself.
-
- </dev/cam
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