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I didn't have a choice. The world's largest optical network (in fact,
all optical networks that I worked on) is managed by software running on
HP-UX.

 

I'd leave it, Ben - he clearly isn't capable of comprehending what
happens in the real world.

 

I've been using my current machine for more than three years and I
haven't found a bug in the window manager yet (fvwm2)

And his machine recovered, yes?

 

No. Unix is the way forward (at least until the Hurd is useable)
because it is stable, reliable and, nowadays, open source. It doesn't
force you into a particular type of hardware and allows you to go on
using older boxes which the new version of Windows would force you to
bin.

 

Hmm.. If anyone knows anything about HP-UX, they'd know that HP do things
_very_ by the book. What pisses people off, if having to interact with a
HP-UX system from another system that doesn't correctly follow protocol
standards[1].

Maybe that was what Mr Precision was on about.

[1]Told to me by a mate who used to do stuff[2] with X25 using AXE10, HP-UX
and Solaris boxes.

[2]Writing software type stuff.

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Having worked[1] on one of the largest HP-UX site in Europe it seemed no
less/more reliable then any other version of unix they used [2] and it's
used on systems where downtime is *not* an option. But hell what would I
know.

[1] Not in a Unix role though.
[2] Solaris, Tru64

 

He was just saying it was shit, and you shouldn't use it. Ben was
explaining that he *had* to use it, and yer man just replied to say it
was shit etc. This doesn't indicate a grasp of "real world" business
situations. If Ben's job involved using software that only ran on
HP-UX, then he *had to use* HP-UX, regardless of Mr.P's opinion of it.

 

Got it.. You can only work with what you're given, and saying something is
shit isn't a helpful atitude to keep when you've got real world cost and
resource limits.

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*ding*

it's just a collolory of "the customer is always right".

 

Corrolary.

 

Cauliflower.

 

Ginge

Mornington Crescent.

<fx: kills the cascade at its root>

 

Bubble 'n squeak

Phil

 

thanks!

 

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It's the accent.

 

It was a bit of a struggle to make a fairly simple point. I was
wondering if I was expressing myself badly.

 

Agreed. Never let me down. I let /it/ down, from time to time...

Less than Mr Precision, according to him.

 

For somebody going by the name Mr Precision he's pretty fucking
approximate about things sometimes, isn't he?

 

Hyundai?

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