[ale] venting about an old sysadmin - WAS: Using OS X as a thin client

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To a man with a hammer, all problems are nails.  The man who only knows 
how to use a hammer fears the man who has and can use a CNC pattern fab 
with integrated assembly robot.  The man with the hammer may become 
violent in this situation and threaten to hit you with his hammer.

The solution, of course, is to program the CNC machine, remotely, to 
whittle the hammer to a toothpick.  Alternatively, simply wait a while 
and Microsoft will do that for you.

Tom

Preston Boyington wrote:
> Jerald Sheets wrote:
>   
>> Hey...  I'm a sysadmin.  I see your unkind and ungentle and raise you  
>> a devious and unforgiving.  :D
>>
>>     
>
> throw in a "spiteful" and a heavy portion of distrust and you could have
> the sysadmins that wrongly thought my using a LiveCD to fix a huge comma
> delimited text file was grounds for my getting written up.  even after
> showing them that Excel and Access choked on the file (several hundred
> meg worth), they didn't drop the matter.
>
> one even said, "i could have written a program to do that in FoxPro(?)"
>
> annoyed i said, "unless you could have written the program, verified the
> data, and imported it for our surface model in the 30 minutes I wound up
> having; we would be better off doing it my way."
>
> thankfully the sysadmins where i am now are very linux centric and i
> have nothing but good things to say about them.
>
>
> ok... i feel slightly better now.
>
> <drops dollar in can as i walk out door>
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