28 Jun
2006
28 Jun
'06
1:45 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
-- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be
killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" -
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
--James M Dakin
Roy,
Your sig file reminds me of one we had in the Army: There is nothing quite
so dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a screwdriver!
Maybe you had to be there. The Army loaded up the Signal Corps with 2nd
Looies every June. Had to put the ROTC types somewhere they wouldn't do too
much harm. So we were the dumping ground. My company had 216 Lts out of
300 men total. The stories that could be told!
And definitely not OT.
Billy
28 Jun
28 Jun
3:01 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Billy Pettit wrote:
Your sig file reminds me of one we had in the Army:
There is nothing quite
so dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a screwdriver!
We had a 2 hour outage on the Air Defense computer system at McChord
back in the 80's, because some Lieutenant managed to trigger the Halon
system. Not only did it shut off power to the system, but it tripped
dampers in the air conditioning system which had to be reset by hand.
Never knew in which what out-of-the way place he ended up...
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
3:12 p.m.
Mike Loewen wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Billy Pettit wrote:
Isn't he now in charge of infrastructure rebuilding in IRAQ?
:-)
Your sig file reminds me of one we had in the
Army: There is nothing
quite
so dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a screwdriver!
We had a 2 hour outage on the Air Defense computer system at
McChord back in the 80's, because some Lieutenant managed to trigger
the Halon system. Not only did it shut off power to the system, but
it tripped dampers in the air conditioning system which had to be
reset by hand.
Never knew in which what out-of-the way place he ended up...
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
5:20 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days?
He currently gets to make the daily morning drive from faluja, Iraq to the
green zone to get the starbucks frappachino for the general.
We had a 2
hour outage on the Air Defense computer system at McChord
back in the 80's, because some Lieutenant managed to trigger the Halon
Never knew in which what out-of-the way place he ended up...
Washington, DC?
pentagon?
8 p.m.
Mike Loewen wrote:
We had a 2 hour outage on the Air Defense computer
system at McChord
back in the 80's, because some Lieutenant managed to trigger the Halon
system. Not only did it shut off power to the system, but it tripped
dampers in the air conditioning system which had to be reset by hand.
Not army-related, but the same thing happened to my company's datacenter
a decade ago -- some idiot marketing type decided to lead a tour group
through the datacenter to impress them with all the blinkenlights. A
tour group!!! So one woman couldn't figure out how to operate a
doorknob to leave, and, thinking it was the opening mechanism, lifted
the plexiglass case next to the door and pressed the giant red button.
Immediately, the datacenter -- an entire floor of our building -- goes
dark and silent, and then everyone is scrambling to get out in the next
30 seconds because we don't know if the haylon is going to go off with
us locked inside. (Thankfully, it didn't; the button was an emergency
power shutoff only.)
A year later, the marketing guy was eventually let go and simultaneously
sued because he was transferring corporate information to competitors.
Damn idiot...
--
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29 Jun
29 Jun
1:35 p.m.
Among college administrators, such idiots are PROMOTED.
Some of the administrators that I work with are competent.
But some of their colleagues show that intelligence is not
necessarily a survival trait.
28 Jun
28 Jun
9:14 p.m.
I remember an E8 or E9 that came up from aircraft maintenance, and became
NCOIC of computer maintenance. He had no idea what was going on. He leaned
on safety switch while giving a tour, and brought down a Q-7 (SAGE).
Almost as bad as the WAF who tried to use a screwdriver to stop a drum for
PM. I don't know if they ever found the screwdriver.....
Paul Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Billy Pettit
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:46 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: The Good Old Days?
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
-- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be
killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" -
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
--James M Dakin
Roy,
Your sig file reminds me of one we had in the Army: There is nothing quite
so dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a screwdriver!
Maybe you had to be there. The Army loaded up the Signal Corps with 2nd
Looies every June. Had to put the ROTC types somewhere they wouldn't do too
much harm. So we were the dumping ground. My company had 216 Lts out of
300 men total. The stories that could be told!
And definitely not OT.
Billy
11:05 p.m.
I remember an E8 or E9 that came up from aircraft maintenance, and became
NCOIC of computer maintenance. He had no idea what was going on. He leaned
on safety switch while giving a tour, and brought down a Q-7 (SAGE).
Almost as bad as the WAF who tried to use a screwdriver to stop a drum for
PM. I don't know if they ever found the screwdriver.....
Paul Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Billy Pettit
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:46 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: The Good Old Days?
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
-- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be
killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" -
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
--James M Dakin
Roy,
Your sig file reminds me of one we had in the Army: There is nothing quite
so dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a screwdriver!
Maybe you had to be there. The Army loaded up the Signal Corps with 2nd
Looies every June. Had to put the ROTC types somewhere they wouldn't do too
much harm. So we were the dumping ground. My company had 216 Lts out of
300 men total. The stories that could be told!
And definitely not OT.
Billy
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