That sure is true, Perl certainly befuddles me to no end but I do know what it is running on. It will be unfortunate for some of us when SCO fails and entire enterprise software systems eventually have to be replace.
I'm locked into administrating a server with SCO 5.0.5, upgraded the hardware to a dual processor server. Small problem, $999 to enable the second 1.0ghz processor. ACK, do I give these bastards money and improve performance or run at half throttle for the next (expected minimum) five years?
I received almost the exact same thing earlier this week, except mine was from a stranded time travelor that needed almost the same parts to get home. Nearest I can figure is that either there is/was a web bug on the email to harvest email addresses or there is folks not from here out there and so desperate to get home they are willing to spam everybody to find another of there kind and get home....
Are we talking about a giant, shared, 10mbs pipe across the US that we could all use together? Wow, that would really last for at least 10 seconds. Talk about/. effect....
These guys are the best (don't flame me yet). Years ago they were doing a $50 rebate on the latest and greatest office. The real neat thing was instead of just the usual UPC code they accepted the following, from ANY of the products you UPGRADED from. Top of the box Front page of the manual Paper insert from the CD. (didn't specify front or back so I used both. You had to have a receipt (real tough to make..) The original rebate coupon (slick paper copied great at kinkos) So at the big company I worked for they actually bought boxed versions, no license agreement and we kept them in the storage room, TONS of them. Toughest part was the limit of two per address. Ended sending them to every friend and relative I had. Also tried (and succeeded) by slighty changing my name and street name for multiple receipts at the ole home address. Worked, and redemption time was pretty quick. We called them presents from "Uncle Bill" Odd thing though, about eighteen months later I did start getting random junk mail to those bogus address...
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duh, if you replace he with "she" it all starts to make a bit more sense...
That sure is true, Perl certainly befuddles me to no end but I do know what it is running on. It will be unfortunate for some of us when SCO fails and entire enterprise software systems eventually have to be replace.
I'm locked into administrating a server with SCO 5.0.5, upgraded the hardware to a dual processor server. Small problem, $999 to enable the second 1.0ghz processor. ACK, do I give these bastards money and improve performance or run at half throttle for the next (expected minimum) five years?
I received almost the exact same thing earlier this week, except mine was from a stranded time travelor that needed almost the same parts to get home. Nearest I can figure is that either there is/was a web bug on the email to harvest email addresses or there is folks not from here out there and so desperate to get home they are willing to spam everybody to find another of there kind and get home....
Are we talking about a giant, shared, 10mbs pipe across the US that we could all use together? Wow, that would really last for at least 10 seconds. Talk about /. effect....
These guys are the best (don't flame me yet). Years ago they were doing a $50 rebate on the latest and greatest office. The real neat thing was instead of just the usual UPC code they accepted the following, from ANY of the products you UPGRADED from.
Top of the box
Front page of the manual
Paper insert from the CD. (didn't specify front or back so I used both.
You had to have a receipt (real tough to make..)
The original rebate coupon (slick paper copied great at kinkos)
So at the big company I worked for they actually bought boxed versions, no license agreement and we kept them in the storage room, TONS of them.
Toughest part was the limit of two per address. Ended sending them to every friend and relative I had. Also tried (and succeeded) by slighty changing my name and street name for multiple receipts at the ole home address. Worked, and redemption time was pretty quick. We called them presents from "Uncle Bill" Odd thing though, about eighteen months later I did start getting random junk mail to those bogus address...
??? Profit.