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From: [e-mail] (Patrick L Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Another long night at the keyboard in Raleigh
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Doug Holtsinger) writes:

[and once again tries to direct followups to misc.test -- the boy never
learns, does he?  PLH]

   Patrick Humphrey writes:

  > I just figured out why Reverend Doug's being so endearing today:  he's only
  > been logged in on five different TTYs at State for going on 20 hours
  > straight, now.

  Bwahahaha!  Gawd, are you stupid.  The system clock on this
  machine is slow, so 'fingering' this machine would give an
  inaccurate login time.

It's *that* slow?  As of 22:50 my time, you're still on ttyp3 there, and
have been since 20:01 last night -- allowing for the hour difference between
time zones, that comes out to eleven minutes short of 27 hours.  Now, as to
your problems with the system clock -- funny, but other times recently that
I've looked at eceyv, the times have been accurate to at least within a few
minutes...and now you're telling me it's off by over a day?  Don't tell me
-- DJR is a systems support person there now...

   Is your pathetic little life so dull that you actually spend
   time figuring out how long other people have been logged in?

Since you don't know anything about my life, I'd appreciate it if you'd
fantasize about something you actually have some knowledge of -- but hey,
all I have to do is open a window, type a three-character alias, and fingerd
does the rest.  It's not my fault if I can take a look at the time it
reports and compare it to the present time and then figure the difference
without having to use a calculator.  (Of course, I first noticed your stay
at about 17:30, and since then, we've been to a movie and to dinner, and
we've been back since the start of the fourth quarter of the Oilers' game --
so I know you want *someone* to hang around the terminal waiting for you to
log in, but you'll have to find another admirer.  My wife and her daughter
rate a lot more attention than you, you know.)

   Hey, here's something for you to occupy your time--figure out
   how many hours the system clock on 'eceyv.ncsu.edu' is slow.
   That should be the most exciting thing you've done all week,
   besides using your toenails to pick snots from your nose.

I may give it a thought next year -- until then, I have a couple of days
off, which I'm going to spend with the family showing my daughter around
town...stuff like Space Center Houston, Astroworld, the Burke Baker
Planetarium, and of course a tour of Rice.  Maybe after I get all my
mainframe files moved over from CMS 5.6 under VM/XA to CMS 8 under VM/ESA
(we finished the upgrade this weekend), I'll have a little time for your
temper tantrums...then again, maybe I won't.

(At least I'm honest enough not to try and direct followups to misc.test --
what's the matter, afraid of what everyone will say of you?  You shouldn't
have to worry about that, as you destroyed your credibility long ago.  You
have nothng left to lose, by now.)

--PLH, think I'll call it a night.  I have things to do tomorrow, but fear
not -- I'll come back and throw you a cookie, sooner or later.


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