[2471] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri Jun 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri Jun 1 01:30:59 1990
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 01:30:37 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Seen on the net:
--
David M. Tate | "[Science Fiction] diverges from reality no
dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | more than economic theory, and is more useful."
| -- Walter E. Meyers
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ellis (Steve Ellis):
New location: Aero and Astro Dep't
Rm 33-214
phone x3-6759
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"Hairy husband, smooth happiness."
-- belligerent Estonian proverb
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Planned absences:
3 Jun: AA 789 Dp BOS 1646 Ar RDU 1848
4-8 Jun: NCSU Installation: Raleigh, NC
e-mail: <henry@ecoult.ncsu.edu>
8 Jun: AA 736 Dp RDU 1410 Ar BOS 1557
>17 Jun: Iowa State Installation: Ames, IA
10 Jun UA 95 Dp BOS 0910 Ar SFO 1220
UA 3562 Dp SFO 1335 Ar SNA 1455
11-15 Jun: Usenix; Anaheim, CA
17 Jun UA 1070 Dp SNA 0900 Ar ORD 1500
UA 106 Dp ORD 1700 Ar BOS 2020
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Plans for this month:
D organising the PANSS tape (and thinking about off-site support)
* (now, thinking about version two ... )
* North Carolina State University installation
* Iowa State University installation
* finding and retaining a man who can pass the "breakfast" test
* shoveling out my apartment
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
! treatment of athena network services as layers upon vendor os.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem," in proposal stage
D = "done"
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>off-campus readers will want to know that you'll find me here usually
>... when i'm not travelling to somewhere exotic, i'm a member of MIT's
>Project Athena External Relations Group, where i handle a potpourri of
>systems development related tasks, including software export issues,
>off-site support and installations, etc. ... other details: i'm an
>alumnus of syracuse university and purdue university ... i like to
>travel often, and hate answering the phone.
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
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mar (Mark A. Rosenstein):
Men trip not on mountains; they stumble on stones.
- Sloppy Hindustani Proverb
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
From RISKS Digest:
AN UNUSUAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CALL
This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, ONT about an unusual
telephone service call he handled while living in England.
It is common practice in England to signal a telephone subscriber by signaling
with 90 volts across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in
England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the two wire
circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties on the same line
to be signalled without disturbing each other.
This particular subscriber, an elderly lady with several pets called to say
that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called and that on the few
occasions when it did manage to ring her dog always barked first. Torn between
curiosity to see this psychic dog and a realization that standard service
techniques might not suffice in this case, Pat proceeded to the scene. Climbing
a nearby telephone pole and hooking in his test set, he dialed the subscriber's
house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The dog barked loudly, followed
by a ringing telephone. Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:
a. Dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar
b. Dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current
c. After several jolts, the dog was urinating on ground and barking
d. Wet ground now conducted and phone rang.
Which goes to prove that some grounding problems can be passed on.
This anecdote excerpted from Syn-Aud-Con Newsletter, Vol 4, No 3, April 1977.
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paul (Paul Boutin):
New address: 189 Tremont St Newton 02158
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rlcarr (Animato):
To get rich enough to buy a really nice place in some snobby as hell
neighborhood (Wellesley, MA; Little Compton, RI; Barrington, RI; etc.)
and piss off everyone around me by doing my best to lower their property
value (paint the house orange, rent to people they want to pretend don't
exist), challenge whatever snotty laws [like pickup truck bans and so forth]
they use to try to exalt themselves above everyone else, and generally be
as much of a [legal] annoyance as possible.
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