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On 2003.09.30 14:58, Michael Jinks wrote: > I'm skipping a meeting right now, which some of my colleagues were roped > into, because I cannot bear to sit through another 1.5 hour tour of a > vendor's web-based application. Thankfully skipping the same meeting. The thought of spending over an hour staring blankly at a powerpoint presentation while someone cheerfully instructs me on how to fill out a web form and click submit could only lead to me inflicting great physical harm upon one or more of those bastards. > And the application? An abomination which (Sun thinks) is going to sit > on all our machines and send them constant updates on their status, like > which particular DSIMM is going to go tits up and cause their > half-million-dollar sooper-dooper fault-tolerant megabox to do a hard > reset next Saturday night. Automagic! Easy to use! Huge time saver! > Huge reliability increaser! Not that this would *ever* happen on a half-milliion-dollar sooper-dooper fault-tolerant megabox. Oh no! It could *not* happen. Well, maybe not more than once every week or two. For months on end. Thank you Sun Microsystems for making my life worth living, blair.
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