sittin' pretty

[Craig White]

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> sinck@ugive.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: sittin' pretty
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> \_ (Vitesse, a semiconductor company in Camarillo, CA, had some SUN
> \_ Diskless clients that swapped over NFS for a while.. they created lots
> \_ of congestion on their network)
>
> My fav was in college watching a TA say "ok everyone, now type
> 'startx' at the prompt" and the subsequent death of the network as two
> NFS servers tried to handle shipping the X binaries down the suddenly
> congested pipe to 20+ diskless SUN workstations.
>
> Fortunately, I was just passing by so could escape outside before
> saying rude things.  :-)
>
> Oh, and did I mention that the boxes were thinneted?
>
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yeah but the class was an hour long and the lesson plans went only 20
minutes.

Craig