Re: does this count?

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From: blair christensen
Subject: Re: does this count?
Date: 21:10 on 30 Sep 2003
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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