On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Brian Lawson wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> I got a notice from our central systems downtime notification list >>> today: >>> >>> "On Friday, December 19th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. UITS will be >>> performing an emergency reboot on one of the VMWare servers. " >>> >>> What, we hire Paul Atriedes as a sysadmin lately? >> >> hah. Atreides. Been too long, had to Google that one. > > I knew who Paul Atreides was but I didn't get the joke. :( Or is it a > reference to the announcements over the intercom in the movie when > they arrived on Arrakis? That just came to me as I was typing this. > -- > Brian As I recall, spice was used by pilots to better navigate the universe. By seeing slightly into the future, they were able to avoid collisions. I don't specifically recall how Paul acquired prescience, but I think that is what Bruce is flicking our way. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
