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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: I met the devil the other day...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.221451.1961@walter.cray.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 04:14:50 GMT
- References: <40386@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1992Nov3.023001.17490@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov3.023001.17490@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams) writes:
- > In article <40386@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs199aa@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher) writes:
- > >
- > >He turns to me just as he's putting
- > >his Satan mask back on. Opps! I just called the Devil a *NERD*!
- > >Anybody have any experience with these sorts of things? I figure
- > >he's probably saving a special place in hell just for me.
- > >
- > >
- > >Mark
- > >(I hope he's got a computer down there.)
- >
-
- Sometimes when I read usenet I get the impression that there's a place
- somewhere in america
- where children are taught to say "opps!" (rhymes with megaflops) when they
- discover that they have inadvertently misbehaved.
-
- > Yes he has a computer for you. A Vax 11/780 serving upwards of 120
- > undergraduates at a time, with a subset K&R C compiler, and a news
- > feed that hasn't gotten any new news for the last ten weeks, so you're
- > forced to read rec.humor out of desperation. The people who run the
- > system are stupid, lethargic, and hostile, who take down the system
- > just when you need it most. Also, you have a 120k disk quota, and
- > the system is so damn slow that you have to wait 15 minutes to
- > get a prompt to do anything like log out. There are only 300 baud
- > dial in lines, and you're lucky to get one that doesn't have line noise
- > all the time. There will also be a lot of vague rules like "don't waste
- > system resources" (which pretty much gives the system admins carte
- > blanche in determining what is appropriate and what is not). You
- > get to use cheesy Qume terminals, most of them missing keys and
- > have so much junk burnt into the screen you have to play "complete
- > the phosphor dots" just to read what's on the screen, as if 3 centimeter
- > characters on top of the screen and 1 millimeter characters on the
- > bottom wasn't bad enough.
- >
- > Oh, I'm sorry, I'm describing the RIT comp sci lab in my freshman year
- > way back in '88.
- >
- > In Hell all you get to use is a Sparc I.
- >
- >
- > Derrick
- > "Not a I+ or nuthin'"
- >
- > --
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > - Derrick Williams Rochester Institute of Technology | Insert snappy -
- > - adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu Computer Science | quotation here -
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Cut it out, Roger.
-