Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!h14g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: joel garry Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: anyone able to access metalink today? Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:21:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <652d44fa-4c12-497d-bef9-149d85714533@f1g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.232.112.189 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1257960085 29823 127.0.0.1 (11 Nov 2009 17:21:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h14g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.232.112.189; posting-account=tpQovAkAAABNoH5bwsZAiff2L0zxGwdv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.cambrium.nl On Nov 11, 2:31=A0am, Noons wrote: > joel garry wrote,on my timestamp of 11/11/2009 6:18 AM: > > > > > Neener neener neener!http://blogs.oracle.com/Support/2009/11/classic_me= talinknanananahnana... > > How professional and respectful! > > And here is my reply:http://dbasrus.blogspot.com/2009/11/quite-frankly-wa= rticki-you-should... Why don't you tell us what you really think? :-D BTW, CW lined out the clueless word in the blog post. I think he was trying to be funny, FWIW. > > Probably gonna ensure that I'll never receive one of their "awards". > Or indeed the promised "golf day" after we padded their pockets to the tu= ne of 6 > figure license fees and yearly maintenance updates... > > (BTW, I never intended to accept the promise: it'd be unprofessional to d= o so. > Yes, I know, it's a quaint dba 1.0 concept, professionalism...) > > But then again: since when did any of that stop me? > :) I doubt if the guy will get fired, and he probably will deserve an award having to be the face of this disaster. If I may dive into improbable paranoia for a moment, I wonder if they purposely did this before a bank holiday? For the information of those outside the US or otherwise wouldn't know, today is Veterans Day. jg -- @home.com is bogus. "...trash removal will not be delayed." "...trash pickup will be delayed one day." Two different radio stations this morning.