Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> On the personal chuckle side, I toured a shop in DC last week where they
> produce daily newsletter-like publications for the congressional crowd.
> In the meeting with the bosses present, the techs were oddly quiet when i
> asked technical "what-if" questions, as I was clearly trying to determine
> the platforms they used so I could see how'd they'd mesh with our own.
> Later in the week, on a tour of the facilities with the boss gone, they
> were much more open . . . . the reason: the boss had paid for and
> thought
> he was running 20 or so NT boxes. He was instead running one NT box at
> the gateway (so the trail looked good on outgoing stuff), and 19 Alpha's
> with Redhat 5.1 :) They even had redhat Xfree86 desktop themes
> installed on the all the Win95 boxes, so even Windows looked somewhat
> like Linux and no one would see the differing windows implementations as
> they looked around the lab.
ROTFL...anyone else have similar anecdotes? Profoundly funny.
Jack
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