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Date: 26 September 2007 12:34:36
I'm thinking back to the day when a BBC Micro arrived on my desk at work. The liberation! No more staring at the message on a dumb terminal - EMAS is down. (Please note, EMAS wasn't down very often, but when it was, I couldn't do any work.)
Have we moved on? I guess that a modern desktop computer easily surpasses the power of EMAS, but as we insist on pervasive management, are we going to see more and more often a situation like to-day, where a power outage in a machine room a mile away yesterday means that there are people in this building to-day who still can't login to the computer on their desk?
And can wife's mother insist that (a) wife must clean and tidy her (mother's) house, and (b) she must do it without help? Wife has gladly accepted a kind offer of help, but her mother, for some reason, is trying to forbid the offered help. I know what my response would be!