On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:27:35 -0800, Gerhard Adam wrote: > >First of all these comments weren't intended as a personal attack, and I >never indicated that YOU were ridiculous, but rather than the proposed >mechanism for costing CPU seconds was. > >The primary reason they are ridiculous is that the question that you have >posted cannot be answered in a simple list-server and to suggest otherwise >truly is ridiculous. > >The original question is wrong at so many levels, especially if one thinks >that someone might actually be contemplating an I/T accounting/chargeback >system based on an answer from this list.
True. And that's why I didn't respond to the original question. However, the second question that Miklos posted was entirely different. On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:03 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: > >For me this more or less clear. >I have here a number of collegues from NT and Unix , and they don't >understand why the 0.5% CPU time is a matter: As I understand it, this question has nothing to do with chargeback or billing. It is about communicating with people from a different culture. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
