That is true. What I was thinking of is that sometimes there is tension between the company geek and management in that the company geek is trying to make everything perfect and management wants it's data systems back online so that customer support and purchasing can access them.
Having a computer sometimes brings out the perfectionist in me. A preacher once said to me that it seems like everything God ever made either had a crack or a blemish in it. On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:44 AM, James E. LaBarre <[email protected]>wrote: > On 03/18/2011 02:28 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > >> If you are making $10 an hour, you can earn the price of a new tower in 30 >> hours. If you have spent two weekends on this, then it would have been >> cheaper to just buy a new tower. >> > > The failure in the argument of what you would get paid for the time > otherwise spent in trying to get old hardware working presumes you *would* > get paid for that time. If all you'd be doing with the time otherwise is > watching reality TV (or some equivalent waste of time), then you might as > well be fiddling with HW <g>. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape > Jun 1 - Zimbra >
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