You got to use a shovel?!? Man, they made me do it with my hands.
"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA702F63406_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> Morning Paul,
>
> when you say 'sh*t off a shovel' do you mean responses are very quick,
> or very slow ?
>
> The reason I ask, is because in a past life, I worked in a boat yard up
> in Scotland and invariably found that when cleaning out the drains
> (which I had to do on occasion as I had the strongest stomach and lowest
> rank !) that sh*t doesn't come off a shovel very quickly - esp the
> sticky stuff :o(
>
> Sugar, on the other hand, does come off a shovel very quickly.
> (Distillery influence !)
>
> I suspect you really meant to say 'sugar off a shovel' because the HP
> Superdome is a very quick bit of kit indeed. One of our customers has 4
> of the b*gg*rs !!!
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Norman Dunbar
> Database/Unix administrator
> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
> mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
> Tel: 0113 289 6265
> Fax: 0113 289 3146
> URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
> -------------------------------------
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Brewer [mailto:paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk]
> Posted At: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:41 PM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: Seeking Advice
> Subject: Re: Seeking Advice
>
>
> "Charles J. Fisher" <cfisher_at_rhadmin.org> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211040450.3082-100000_at_galt.rhadmin.org...
> > It is better to be seen as a person interested in enterprise-UNIX who
> > dabbles with Linux. Even Oracle's prepackaged RAC is just dabbling
> when
> > compared to an E10k, Superdome, or Power 4. Don't focus entirely on
> Linux.
> >
> Totally off-topic, sorry. We recently got access to a Superdome to
> install a
> dozen or so (badly configured; not our fault) instances.
> I'm totally bowled over. It is 100 miles away but it responds like s**t
> off
> a shovel.
>
> Usually I detest the idea of throwing hardware at a bad database, but I
> have
> to respectfully admit to Messrs Hewlett and Packard (or is it Compaq
> now?),
> that this seems to be a serious piece of kit.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 08:00:00 CST
