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From: Adam Funk on 21 Mar 2010 10:22 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. -- The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? [Gerald Ford, 1978]
From: Al in St. Lou on 21 Mar 2010 20:07 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 21 Mar 2010 21:59 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. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Al in St. Lou on 22 Mar 2010 00:32 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 22 Mar 2010 05:40
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. |