Emails

[agmlego.livejournal.com]

As promised here, below lie links to the various boilerplate emails I send out for various issues, including...

• ...the sending of Office attachments (first, second times): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (third, fourth times): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (fifth time): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (sixth time): here
  
• ...the sending of unsubscribe (or personal/sensitive) messages to lists: here
  
• ...the polite asking for help in fields I am not familiar with: here
  
• ...the rude asking for help in fields I am not familiar with: here
  
• ...(NEW, adapted from here) the spamming of lists/address books with panic emails: here
  

Note that, though the files linked above are HTML files, the actual emails sent are in plaintext format. The rationale behind the HTML files above is the increased efficacy of hyperlinks when viewed in a web browser. The pages linked to are either reference materials (Google, Wikipedia, Snopes, ATLAS, etc.,) or rationale pages (like this), which are almost guaranteed to be up at all times. If you do use these documents, especially the rationale pages, please consider mirroring them on a server more personal to you. Feel free to modify these documents and the rationale pages as you see fit--I release them into the public domain.

Enjoy!

--
"Memento Mori Ergo Carpe Diem"

Comments

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

What university did you attend? Most schools are not going to be running Solaris on lab computers, unless said machines are being used for a specific purpose. Did the library and publicly accessible student labs all run Solaris as well?

[tecknow.livejournal.com]

There are innumerable Solaris boxes in my college, including at least 1 general purpose lab for student use, and nearly all the student accessible server machines. Granted its the open lab in the electrical engineering building, but still.

My partner uses Solaris boxes at work.

Some people don't like change and some institutions like change even less, they'll milk those solaris boxes until they die.

[adamjaskie.livejournal.com]

I attended the same university, and can attest to the computers that were used.

The library had Windows machines by the time I left, but my freshman year they had a mix of Windows and SunRay thin clients connected to Solaris servers.

CS had a lab of Blade 100 workstations All the other machines in the CS labs were Linux. By the time I graduated, the Solaris machines were used only for a couple of classes in CS, and the major CS labs were all Linux. One Windows lab existed for a couple specific classes (and I think it was restricted-access).

The math department had multiple labs with Blade 100s and SunRays, and the various engineering departments all had Solaris machines (depending on the lab, Blade 100s or Ultra 10s, with a few Ultra 60s, Ultra 80s, etc. scattered around.) Many people had SunRays in their offices.

Most Solaris lab machines in most departments were replaced with Linux (RHEL or Fedora, depending on the department), or dual-boot Windows/Linux machines by my senior year.

Humanities used a mix of MacOS and Windows, with Solaris servers.