---- Rich Kulawiec <rsk_at_rockandwater.net> wrote: > <engage arrogant Unix wizard mode at: 50%> > > Which brings us back to Bell Labs, and Ken Thompson, and Dennis Ritchie, > and Brian Kernighan, and all the other brilliant minds who hatched Unix > and enabled the Internet to take huge leaps forward. It was truly a > unique place, and it's a pity that there's nothing comparable to it > any more -- we're all poorer for that loss. > <disengage arrogant Unix wizard mode> I've only been involved with *nix systems since 1986, and I know about 3% of what Rich knows, but I want to say "Hear, Hear!" And speaking of little brothers, the current technowizards of AT&T, great grandsons of Bell Labs, aren't even capable of building a website that will allow them to take my $$ for the cell phone service they are providing me. It's a pity, that's what it is. And if this has nothing to do with paddling, well, Craig started it :P Steve Whizzer, not Wizard *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 07 2009 - 07:20:55 PDT
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