On Mon, 19 Jun 2005, Addinall
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Is this sentence saying you don't pay any attention or that it doesn't happen?
And, you have no opinion on that? :-
See, I know its illegal to drink and drive, but its not illegal to be on the internet and drink. Did you know that?
The casinos always win, the players always have a net loss in a population. Just like insurance companies. I don't bet on horses.
vote
I don't know about YOUR country, but in mine there is no democracy. Votes here are obtained not on merit but on campaign contributions to advertising, vote fraud, hacked electronic voting machines, cheating, our
I appreciate that you qualified that remark. I think its all anyone can say. :-)
Listen, I know the
Thanks, but you don't have to rub it in. We all already know that Australia has a monopoly on brains and no one has an IQ lower than 150 and that Australia has all the atomic plants in the world and is the greatest country on Earth and that Australia invented the internet and in American no one has an IQ greater than 49 and America is a big cesspool of a country that never did anything and is just a big pile of clueless bastards. Should I address you as "Your Majesty" or "Your Highness"? ;-)
but refrain from
I never claimed to be a computer expert. I did choke up on a certain person, who shall remain namelss for now, who presented himself as "Jesus Christ" or otherwise claimed all of his networks were absolutely bulletproof.
David made a much more careful and thoughtful set of remarks in his responses. I agreed with most of what he said and at least for what he said that I didn't agree with, he was not giving out blatently wrong information or inappropriate information.
So, you say. I may subscribe and judge for myself. I was more impressed with comp.*.unix.solaris and comp.*.bsd.*
Fine, you have your opinion. I have mine.
I'd rather ask on comp.*.*.serious
If you want to fly a flag for yourself, I'd recommend "Crocodile Dundee" who was at least a very good guy and was an Aussie character in Aussieland and was very very well received in the USA. Indian Jones was a good movie, too, but more spectacular and entertaining than meritable. But, in keeping with your persona, maybe you should have, where others fear to tread, referred more to yourself as either "Jesus Christ" or, maybe even better, "The Alexander-the-Great" of networks.
I was reading his articles back about then, too.
We were both at a conference in
I've been to scientific conferences before you were born.
Funny, I know that name. I never heard of Mark Addinall until now.
so we could hear the
I kinda got the impression that IBM and MS, around that time, had this grand plan to screw each other only MS won.
Richard was in the
Well, I am happy for BSD and Linux. I've dabbled in BSD, played longer with Linuxes (mostly RH on up to Taroon version 3.0)
My recollection of TCP-IP is that it was not the decision of one person. Many tried to go to other protocols, only TCP-IP turned out to be the easiest-more practical to implement. So most of the others fell by the wayside.
Came in handy later when I engineered a bridge between SNA
Fine.
Parakeets are very small birds. ;-)
Um..yeah. Name them.
Oh, you acknowledge that you don't walk on water? I'm impressed.
Fine. Cripe, I could say things like that.
I'll have a look later and get back to you.
Well, I'm pretty ugly, too.
The other one is Prof. John Hughes,
I don't know what you're definition of "Y'all" is, but I'm not part of it.
As I answered David Moss, I was in Sydney in '95. A guest of Hans Coster in Dept Biophysics at UNSW. Very nice city you have there, and I always thought the opera house architecture was a good choice.
You may remember me as
Funny, I didn't see you at my conferences.
I don't recall that in your resume. I'll have to look again.
SCO is almost a pile of ashes these days.
Remember I'm not an expert. But, I don't exagerate in the areas of my expertise.
And, let me guess, this means while all the other Aussies have IQs breater than 150, yours is greater than 200?
Do you have free coffee there? Or, tea?
Thanks for the stuff below, I did read it.
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