[RANT] I hate life, I wish this was simple, like the PDP...

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Nov 15 14:27:24 1997

Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
>
> I have been sitting here for the past 3 hours trying to make **** BSDi see
> a Digiboard that MS-DOG swears is there and BSD swears is not. If this
> were my PDP I could just drop in another DZ11, but no, Intel has to make
> the machines, and they have to use some bass-ackwards IBM BIOS which
> limits the normal amount of serials to 4... And, since this is work, I
> can't leave at 5 because the CUSTOMERS are down, and they get to call me
> with their whiny little voices and say "The Internet is down, and it's
> your fault I didn't read the mail saying this was scheduled...", and worst
> of all I'll be here till 6 because this doesn't work, and I could be
> getting an RL02, controller, and terminator for $20 at 5:00, but no, the
> CUSTOMERS are down, so I have to put myself last *AGAIN*...
> Oh, that feels better. Now, off to rebuild BSD again...

Should have gone with Linux. But I repeat myself.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails 
of the last priest."  [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sat Nov 15 1997 - 14:27:24 GMT

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