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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <BOB.92Aug14142839@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 18:28:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: volitans.BOB.92Aug14142839
- References: <binky-060892095941@192.100.87.190> <1992Aug8.000308.20539@moe.einstein.com>
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- In-Reply-To: jimh@pacdata.uucp's message of Tue, 11 Aug 1992 23: 54:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.235441.1646@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:
- ...a complaint from a co-worker about me always talking about
- spawning demons...
-
- When I addressed a conference of missionaries who use computers to get
- their job done, we got along pretty well as I described heterogenous
- interoperable global-scale networks by analogy to the Pax Romana. I
- got only a few concerned looks when I mentioned daemons (which I was
- careful to pronounce "day-muns") running round inside my OS.
-
- But the biggest reaction came when I did a big-screen demo of
- telnetting across a PPP modem connection from that lecture hall into
- my office systems. I run yow(6) in my .login, and they were
- confronted with "Over in West Philadelphia a puppy is vomiting." At
- that point they all wrote me off as a hopeless layman, but at least
- (to their credit) most of them kept listening to what I had to say...
-
- (I'm not a missionary nor even a full-time preacher, nor do I play one
- on TV, but I hang out with them whenever I can.)
-