From: Adam Funk on
On 2010-03-20, David DeLaney wrote:

> pk <pk(a)pk.invalid> wrote:
>>Hatunen wrote:
>>> How can you trust a UNIX or Linux system when entering the
>>> cammand cal 9 1752 give asuch a goofy answer?
>>
>>Uh...that answer is correct. Maybe you need to read up something about
>>calendar systems.
>
> GIVE US BACK OUR ELEVENTEEN DAYS!

They should have listened to John Dee way back when.


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From: Al in St. Lou on
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:48:19 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99(a)comcast.net>
wrote:

>Hatunen wrote:
>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>
>>> Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a
>>> "VMS" that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an
>>> empirical one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be
>>> telling you that you are taking a religious position, not a rational
>>> one. Computer science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and
>>> this fact is acknowledged by many computer scientists.
>>
>> As God is my witness, I swear that I have not only seen VAXen
>> with VMS but even used them. Yo gotta believe me...
>
>Me too, me too.

I guess we're showing our age, but I did too.
From: Hatunen on
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:07:57 -0500, Al in St. Lou
<alfargnoli(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:48:19 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99(a)comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Hatunen wrote:
>>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>>
>>>> Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a
>>>> "VMS" that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an
>>>> empirical one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be
>>>> telling you that you are taking a religious position, not a rational
>>>> one. Computer science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and
>>>> this fact is acknowledged by many computer scientists.
>>>
>>> As God is my witness, I swear that I have not only seen VAXen
>>> with VMS but even used them. Yo gotta believe me...
>>
>>Me too, me too.
>
>I guess we're showing our age, but I did too.

Uh. Age?

Never mind.

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From: Al in St. Lou on
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:59:41 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:07:57 -0500, Al in St. Lou
><alfargnoli(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:48:19 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99(a)comcast.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hatunen wrote:
>>>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a
>>>>> "VMS" that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an
>>>>> empirical one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be
>>>>> telling you that you are taking a religious position, not a rational
>>>>> one. Computer science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and
>>>>> this fact is acknowledged by many computer scientists.
>>>>
>>>> As God is my witness, I swear that I have not only seen VAXen
>>>> with VMS but even used them. Yo gotta believe me...
>>>
>>>Me too, me too.
>>
>>I guess we're showing our age, but I did too.
>
>Uh. Age?
>
>Never mind.

Isn't the idiom that one is showing one's age? It seemed weird to
write "ages."
Al in St. Lou
From: The Natural Philosopher on
Al in St. Lou wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:48:19 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99(a)comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hatunen wrote:
>>> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>>>> Linux users will tell you that your belief in the existence of a
>>>> "VMS" that evolved somehow, independently of the Creator, is not an
>>>> empirical one. Indeed, that you talk of belief at all should be
>>>> telling you that you are taking a religious position, not a rational
>>>> one. Computer science has yet to prove the existence of VMS, and
>>>> this fact is acknowledged by many computer scientists.
>>> As God is my witness, I swear that I have not only seen VAXen
>>> with VMS but even used them. Yo gotta believe me...
>> Me too, me too.
>
> I guess we're showing our age, but I did too.

I've even sold a TCP stack for them.