[20644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Wired News on Backhoe Troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Glave)
Mon Oct 19 22:53:43 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:20:03 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: James Glave <james@wired.com>
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15645.html
Back, Back! Dreaded Hoe
by Chris Oakes , Wired News
4:00 a.m. 19.Oct.98.PDT
Participants in the North American Network Operators Group email
discussion list -- the primary shop talk forum for telecom and ISP
engineers -- have been bandying about ideas for a new T-shirt.
One prototype features the black profile of a backhoe, the staple machine
of construction crews everywhere. A massive shovel hangs off an insect-like
arm, suspended above four giant tires. It's not the image you'd expect for
folks who deal in circuits, switches, and packet flow. But there's
something else: The backhoe is positioned within the crosshairs of a firing
device.
Do we have a problem with backhoes here?
(more.....)
James Glave, News Editor, Wired News, http://www.wired.com (415) 276-8430
