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Re: Remote Controls.. whaddyacallem's (fwd)
From: Carl Jacobs <"cjacobs"@fallschurch.esys dot com>
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: Remote Controls.. whaddyacallem's
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:48:04 -0400
Arthur Hagen agreed with the Gartner Group, and wrote:
[...]
> TV's? Cable boxes?? *Families*???
>
> I thought you guys were system administrators!
[...]
Ok. I'll rephrase:
We have a sort-of-TV-looking-thing which acts as our B5TP [0] gateway,
and a sort-of-cable-bo-looking-thingie which is our B5TP router.
And families are these things which I seem to recall having had once.
Back before my father bought me that Timex Sinclair when I was in the
fifth grade[3].
Boy, what *that* a mistake.
Although, IIRC, it was easier to admin than an NT box...
[0] Babylon-5 Transfer Protocol [1]
[1] Capable of emulating older protocols such as STTP [2]
[2] You figure it out...
[3] Ok, so I've just timestamped myself. [4]
[4] I almost said "dated myself" [5] but that Would Have Been Bad.
[5] For lack of anyone else to date. [6]
[6] Although the prospects (as it were) are rising. Woo hoo!
--
Carl Jacobs - Software Engineer by title, SysAdmin by fait accompli
Opinions expressed are not those of Raytheon Systems Corporation.
cjacobs at fallschurch.esys.com, darian at widomaker.com (munged)
"We'll use a Java ORB on an NT host for embedded realtime." -Anon
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