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

[JLMS]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM,  <damion.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


Smokers claim that their habit calms their nerves :-)
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