5 Dec
2008
5 Dec
'08
9:08 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
These were not IT folks, they were folks in entirely non-IT roles at
the South Pole. One was an electrician who keeps the generators
working that supply power to our drilling rig for the installation
phase of our experiment - someone I _do_ want to associate with for
his particular expertise.
These people just happened to come by my desk to ask me something and
saw multiple shell windows open, and the only environment _they_ had
ever seen was DOS. They were representative of the general public,
not of someone who would be in my department at work.
-ethan
I may have to pull this out to annoy _others_, though (I've lost track
of how many folks asked me why I was using "DOS" when I had multiple
term windows open on a Linux box).
Good heavens.
I make it a point to avoid associating with such people. My life is much
happier that way.