[SunRescue] RE: Solaris 1.1 on a 4/330

[Dave McGuire]

On January 13, Tim Harrison wrote:
> >   Uhh, yeah...At Digex's main facility alone, just up the road from here
> > in Beltsville MD, live well over a thousand SunOS 4.1.4 machines that
> > are sitting there making money...and getting support contracts bought
> > for them from Sun because Digex now sucks so badly that nobody with a
> > Unix clue will work for them.  But that's a flamefest for a different
> > day.
> 
> Not bitter at all, are you Dave. :)

  Who, me?

  I was one of the founders of that fucking company, and now it's a
pile of shit.  Suits.  It's all the fault of a bunch of suits.

> When I was working in Manhattan, we had a client (who shall remain
> nameless, but they make pretty good chocolate bars...) who insisted we
> host their stuff with Digex.  We literally had to walk some poor sod
> through installing Perl on the phone.  It had to be one of the most
> painful hosting experiences I've had.  That, and getting them to upgrade
> the box from a SS5 to something that could handle the traffic it was
> getting.
> 
> These people had the clue of my toenail clippings.  Not that *I'm*
> bitter.

  *SIGH*

> BTW, did you get my two messages to you privately, Dave?  Somehow, I
> think the network I'm connecting to is eating my damned mail.  Don't
> know where or how, but so far, three people have complained that they've
> not received mail that my mail logs said left my mail server.

  Hmmm...recent messages?  I don't think I've seen any.  Are you using
microsoft products to send your email?

          -Dave McGuire