[ale] OT: oh crap

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> hbbs at comcast.net said:
> 
>>I'd learn to recognize the MS "alternatives" for well-established open
>>standards...and avoid them.  I think that knocks AD and WINS right out.
>>
>>That, to me, is the biggest underlying difference between Win-world and
>>Lin-world - it's the Windows Way of Doing Things vs. The Way of Doing
>>Things.
>>I always tell people to run stuff as though someone's going to bring in a
>>Mac or a VAX or a Sun or an SGI or an RS/6000 any day.
> 
> 
> Absolutely. One of my goals is to identify those facets of our current
> setup that can be replaced and do so...however, I have to be able to
> understand said facets, and also maintain them for the near future until
> the time to remove them comes.

You mean, 'until the time to upgrade them with a better solution comes.' :)

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Until later, Geoffrey