Re: I'm definitely in need of recovery.....

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:56:18 +0900, Dave Brown <dagbrown@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
My dream (plan?) (not in order): Get rid of everything. And I mean
everything.

Hey, I did that. And then I moved to Japan.

Took me all of three months before I was given some more root
passwords.


What took you so long?

--
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
I'll have to try and get an item written into the DR plan specifying a
run to Krispy Kreme for sysadmin fuel, since it'd no doubt be a long
night ahead.
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