Suzuki Samurai was Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary (waaaay

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> > Yes, you may.  In fact, I insist.  I have nothing against folks that
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> > stay in school until they're 30 or so, getting all the degrees
> > available, until they start spouting something they learned in some
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> > lecture or lab somewhere and expecting the rest of the world to take it
> > as The Way Things Are.  Sometimes it works, granted, but sometimes it's
> > so far off base that it results in much hilarity.

> Could we stop with the asinine generalizations please. I can not even
> begin to count the times we have had to hand fix the fuckups from the
> sysadmins in almost every organization I have been involved. It is just
> tiresome having to deal with undereducated drop outs that are unable to
> fix things right the first time, and that *gasp* our holy Ph.D. have to
> get our hands dirty and first hardware and configuration issues on top of
> trying to carry research work. That was the reason I joined this list to
> begin with.

I know at first glance it looks like Kurt (not me, the other one) is
making a blanket statement, but really he's not.  (or it doesn't seem
so to me).

--Kurt