@karlauerbach @lauren @aka_pugs Administrative types could be remarkably clueless. My boss—a techie—once asked, "Steve, where is the XXX package?" "On disk, of course." "Which disk?" I told him. "What tracks on the disk?" "How would I know, and why does it matter? Do you want me to dump the VTOC [Volume Table of Contents] to find out?" He showed me the metal property sticker he'd been sent by the clueless—it was something we'd purchased, so we had to put a property label on it…

@noplasticshower @aka_pugs @lauren @cigitalgem I don't think so. Amazon says that that book came out in 2001, well after the AT&T/Lucent split, and I was with AT&T (as was Avi). Ches was with Lucent (or Lumeta) until around '99, I think, when he also moved to AT&T.

@lauren @aka_pugs My lab once bought an off-brand machine to run their variant of 4.xBSD. Their compiler and/or hardware set the result to zero on an integer overflow—which is acceptable for int but not for unsigned, and the latter was causing me problems: the C language definition was quite explicit about what the result should be. I filed a bug report; their response was, in essence, WONT FIX. I forwarded the correspondence to Dennis—and a patch came out in a very few days…

@mattblaze I thought that John Mastodon was auditing this semester.

@kenshirriff 1403? That was a printer, not a card read/punch.

@heidilifeldman READ THIS THREAD.