[P1] Ttly OT: Fiji exercises internet censorship !!!

[david]

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 01:09  AM, Pat D.Stephens wrote:

> Chas,
>
> Your quote reminds me of an experience I had on the QE2 during a 
> Pacific adventure a couple of years ago.  They had a PC room for us to 
> use and I told the monitor that I was a Mac user, not a PC person and 
> asked permission to check my email.  He agreed and since he taught 
> classes told me to come at will and if a machine was available, for me 
> to just sit down and use it.  One day, I strolled in and he had about 
> 15 machines,but about 10 people that he was teaching...and came over 
> and apologized about 5 of them being 'messed up' and he was awaiting 
> the ship's engineer to come and fix them.  Seems that during the night 
> some kids had come in and put them into and endless loop.  I sat 
> there, staring at one while it did it's thing...then, I cut the power 
> button and waited then rebooted it.  Lo, and behold, it was fixed!  
> The fellow (former professor of computer science at an Eastern U) came 
> by just then and asked me what I'd done, and I told him quite honestly 
> that I was a Mac person and might have ruined it.  He laughed and 
> asked me to 'fix' the others the same way.  He seemed shocked (and I 
> never knew if it was my lack of respect for the Windows machines, or 
> my gall) but I 'fixed' all of them and did my email and left, very 
> quietly.
>
The professor was obviously a software person - that was a hardware 
problem!! Sheesh - the first thing any decent tech does is turn off the 
machine to see if rebooting fixes the problem.

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David