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On 11/14/2011 11:27 PM, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Can't do anything with the servers. The funny thing
is that during that time, two or three weeks since, the system
is just sitting there, when the server room is being "built"
around it.<br>
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My worst "time wasted" story is from way back (you can calculate
just how way back in a second). I was contacted by Channel 2 News to
do some trivial server maintenance. It was trivial that I said I'm
going to have to charge them half time for my time getting there.
Obviously, we scheduled it during the day, as they are only truly
active during the evenings unless something special comes up.<br>
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Except this turned out to be the day the Akaba agreement was signed.
I have no idea why they didn't reschedule. The place was crawling
with TV celebs, and we were constantly interrupted because the guy I
was supposed to do the maintenance for kept being called away to
handle one thing or the other. In the end, an half hour net job
took over four hours.<br>
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What's even more interesting is that these occasions have a dress
code. Technical people dress casually. News anchors dress
semi-officially, which is to say they have an official shirt on, tie
and all, but casual pants (down to the level of shorts, on some
occasions). Guests dress officially. So my client's contact was
dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, Ehud Yaari had a buttoned shirt
flapping out of his Jeans, and Ahmed Tibi had a complete suite on.
Oblivious to this dress code, I dressed up to go to a client, which
meant that I got lots of looks from people who figured that I must
be a guest, but did not recognize me.<br>
<br>
Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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