Hi Bob,

BV> You're not wrong. I'm going to give my bloke at Burwood a "Dear
BV> Bill", letter on Monday. He's getting stupid again and this
BV> time, I'm giving him notice that I won't be looking after them
BV> from the end of August.
BL>  Again??

Yeah. Once an arsehole, always an arsehole.

BV> I'm sick of it. It's going to be hard kissing off someone who I
BV> extract about $150k p.a. out of
BL>  Give him the notice but leave the door open.

I don't really know that I want to.

BV> , but I've got foreign governments courting me at the moment,
BV> so now is as good a time as any. Besides, Brenton's Retirement
BV> Plan #7365 is close to a reality, so what the heck.
BL> Courted by foreign governments...? Not the Russians!
BL> Paul will wet his pants if you start programming for Boris.

Nah, it's not the Russians, besides I don't work for anyone unless
I know I'll be getting paid in either A$ or US$.

BV> Whatever, it didn't last long. He's back to his old tricks
BV> again. We've lost some data which gets sent from another host
BV> to us and he's gone ballistic. The part that really pisses me
BV> off is that we have no way to check that we get everything and
BV> the fucked system which is sending it has no way to ensure that
BV> they send everything.
BL> The poor man is upset.

It really pisses me off. I wanted to address this possibility six
years ago and I've raised it every chance I had. Nobody else wanted
to do anything about it. I'm in the middle and now they blame me.

BV> The fact that the sender tells me that they have other clients
BV> who suspect data loss is irrelevant to them, it's still my fault.
BL> Tell him that you get 90% of the data and nine out of ten ain't bad.

ROFL...Yeah, I can imagine it now.

"Shit Bill, what are you complaining about" ?
"We're only loosing about $500,000.00 a month. What's your problem" ?

What we're talking about here is one transaction out of 250,000 which
is worth $17.00 out of $5,000,000.00  On average, these guys skim
about 10%, so their loss might be about $1.70 per month.

BL> How about two separate ISA cards - one IDE cable each?
BV> Que ? That doesn't really make sense. I've read elsewhere that
BV> you've got it sorted out now anyway, so I won't bother with it.
BL>  I wasn't thinking of me... mine's working like a trojan. If I can
BL> run 2 CD's off this ISA card on 1E8/IRQ11, I could run another two off
BL> another ordinary ISA card set up to read 168/IRQ10.

If you could get the driver to see them.

BL> I fixed the fault in the old ISA card by resoldering the IDE pin
BL> header and now everything works luvverly.

Great.

Regards, Brenton
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