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Mark Atwood

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Jul 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/2/99
to Joel Maslak
Joel Maslak <jma...@updatesystems.com> writes:
>
> This list summarizes the "standard, agreed-upon Ll values" of various
> OSes. They do not currently need to be in wide-spread use. However, all
> of the listed OSes must have been sold/evangelized to computer admins at
> some time by marketing/tyrants/bigots/IBM/etc...
>
> The rules are simple to add or change something on this list:
>
> 1) Use the formula at the top of the webpage as a guide
> 2) E-mail me your suggestions. A rant will help ensure it gets the Ll
> value you specify.

I'm trying to remember enough Star Drek to figure out what the Ll
would be for LCARS. It seems to have been portrayed as being bugfree,
aside from some occational security problems..

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Mark Atwood |
m...@pobox.com |
http://www.pobox.com/~mra |

Bron Gondwana

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Jul 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/3/99
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'twas said by Joel Maslak of jma...@updatesystems.com in alt.sysadmin.recovery that:
>I am looking for input into my current Lovelace scale. I posted one of
>these some time ago, but have misplaced it since it went off the net.

Well, something is b0rken:


From jmaslak[AT]unix.updatesystems.com Fri Jul 2 16:18:44 1999
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:18:20 -0600
From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak[AT]unix.updatesystems.com>
To: jmaslak[AT]antelope.net

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
...

I'll read the rest now..

--
b

Joel Maslak

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Jul 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/3/99
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Bron Gondwana <br...@css.tuu.utas.edu.au> wrote:

> From jmaslak[AT]unix.updatesystems.com Fri Jul 2 16:18:44 1999
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:18:20 -0600

Never use mail in the place of FTP. Doh!

AutoLART Applied. Ouch!

(if you see this twice, I forgot to wave the chicken. AutoLART applied.
Ouch, ouch!)

--
Joel Maslak
WAY too tired to think.

Jens Goerke

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Jul 3, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/3/99
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Quoth Joel Maslak (jma...@updatesystems.com):

> Never use mail in the place of FTP. Doh!

I somehow mis-parsed this as "plate mail". Recovery can be quite sweet,
especially when you get kidnapped at dawn, dragged into a Chaos temple,
bound, and tortured, just to get out about an hour later, nearly unharmed.
Just like visiting home while travelling...

A true BOFH can create more havoc than any Chaos priestess any time.

Jens, looking forward to the next LARPs
--
$HOME away from home: http://www.kite.net/
"God, root, what is difference?" - Pitr
"God is more forgiving." - Dave Aronson

void

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Jul 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/4/99
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On 3 Jul 1999 18:42:34 GMT, Joel Maslak <jma...@updatesystems.com> wrote:
>
>chicken.

That's three references in two days ... did someone put Stupid Juice in
the water around here?

--
Ben

"I see you have SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, HPUX, Irix, and Linux.
Do you know Unix?"

Alan J Rosenthal

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Jul 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM7/5/99
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Joel Maslak <jma...@updatesystems.com> writes:
>I am looking for input into my current Lovelace scale.

Your formula includes a division by "MU", which you define as "Maximum
Uptime, the maximum number of days the system will run without the need
for a reboot."

Is this a real number? If it's integer, I think your Ll values for most
versions of "win"dows are too low because they're finite.

Actually, I think that anyway.


-- aj "ok, I know that division by zero doesn't yield infinity....
except in the IEEE fp standard, which also sucks..." r

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