[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Nix wrote:

> On 19 Nov 2009, damion yates said:
> > At the BBC the Unix team built everything from their desks, via
> > serial consoles and netbooting, but occasionally we'd need to
> > venture down to the datacentre, where we'd see the Windows engineers
> > in coats installing by cdrom.
> 
> Why in coats? Was it really cold in there?

For some strange reason, almost all of the Windows engineers smoked.
They'd go for a fag break between progress bars.  None of the Unix
engineers smoked.

Damion
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