A short outside history of Xfce

[Andrew Conkling]

On 5/4/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:
> OT:
I'd say tangent; I can see the logic here. ;)

>         Back in late '99 I started working for what would turn out to be a 5
> year gig.  The job was high-end Solaris SysAdmin work [Side note: I
> infected the place with Linux and now there's as much Red Hat and Fedora
> there as Solaris] with some networking.  The guys I was working with
> were all high-end techies.  One was actually a Solaris instructor for
> Sun before he came there.
>
>         Anyway, one day we were working on something and he was trying to ask
> me a question.  He couldn't get it out so I told him, half jokingly,
> "Tell me in shell."  Well, he did and damned if I didn't know what he
> needed right away.
>
>         There was another guy there who was the quintessential engineer.  It
> was always funny asking him a question.  You'd get two examples and a
> car analogy.  The funniest thing one time was when this non-techie asked
> him a yes or no question.  I over hear the question so I rolled my chair
> over because I knew I'd get a wealth of info in the answer.  After about
> 10 minutes my man was done.  I then proceeded to say, "Ok, now answer
> yes or no."  He said yes.

Heh, please share more tangential stories as fitting!  I was just
hitting adolescence when last you were active on the list, but I can
see why you got such a warm welcome when you came back!

>         $DEITY how I love hanging with techies.  :-)

OK, that says it all right there. :P