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1 The Official MBA Handbook on doing company business on an airplane:
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2 Do not work openly on top-secret company cost documents unless
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3 you have previously ascertained that the passenger next to you
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4 is blind, a rock musician on mood-ameliorating drugs, or the
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5 unfortunate possessor of a forty-seventh chromosome.
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6 -----
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7 You are here:
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8 ***
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9 ***
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10 *********
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11 *******
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12 *****
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13 ***
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14 *
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15
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16 But you're not all there.
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17 -----
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18 It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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19 -----
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20 I don't know what Descartes' got,
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21 But booze can do what Kant cannot.
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22 -- Mike Cross
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23 -----
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24 It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.
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25 -- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
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26 [Also attributed to David Merrick. Ed.]
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27
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28 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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29 -- Gore Vidal
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30 [Great minds think alike? Ed.]
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32 BOFH excuse #343:
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34 The ATM board has run out of 10 pound notes. We are having a whip round to refill it, care to contribute ?
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35 -----
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36 "Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser."
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37 -- Dave Thomas, "Strange Brew"
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39 /*
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40 * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
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41 * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
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42 * to talk to the University of Mars.
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43 * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
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44 * ftp to mars will work nicely.
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45 */
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46 -- from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]
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48 "One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".
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