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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Several years ago I went to a Solaris admin “for experienced UNIX admins” boot camp training. It was 5 x 12 hour days to train you what they would normally
cover in 2 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We had one putz that was a Windows consultant that had never touched UNIX slowing us all down with really basic questions. Solaris has tools for “spray” that
let you make nasty sounds on connected workstations. We took turns doing that to him. He’d look at whoever he suspected was doing it at which point someone else would do it. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 19, 2014 10:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Paul Cartwright; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">heh, heh.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">sometimes watching the pain of others is fun and not just cruel.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You should put that guy in front of one the windows servers installed with no gui and see how long he lasts! As can be imagined, that is NOT a popular install method.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Paul Cartwright <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/19/2014 10:27 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> So I would put forward that the wholesale adoption of Linux will<br>
> depend on the retraining of the existing admins so they are willing to<br>
> tell upstream "sure, Linux will be useful here".<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will never forget the class I went to , I think it was a document<br>
source code revision app, Rational Rose..<br>
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it was me and a windows guy, definitely a mouse expert. Of course this<br>
was hosted on a UNIX box, and we had to do lots of command-line STUFF,<br>
using history, and editing the command lines.. It was a HOOT!!! he had<br>
that deer in the headlights look for 2 days.<br>
I don't remember him helping out much with the admin of it when we got<br>
back..<br>
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<span class="hoenzb">Paul Cartwright</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
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