INFO-VAX Wed, 23 Jul 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 408 Contents: Re: 226 Transfer complete question Re: OT: Valley Boy (the Education of Tom Perkins) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:01:58 -0700 (PDT) From: kiwi-red Subject: Re: 226 Transfer complete question Message-ID: <9a3d73e5-23d9-467b-9c44-01f4aaee03c8@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> well thats why I was asking code has been changed thanks for the pointer cheers kiwi > > =A0 =A0Why are you looking at _anything_ after "226"? =A0Why are you look= ing > at anything after "2"? > > =A0 =A0 =A0http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc959 > > [...] > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2yz =A0 Positive Completion reply > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0The requested action has been successfully= completed. =A0A > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0new request may be initiated. > [...] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > =A0 =A0Steven M. Schweda =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 sms@antinode-info > =A0 =A0382 South Warwick Street =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(+1) 651-699-9818 > =A0 =A0Saint Paul =A0MN =A055105-2547 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:50:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Rieck Subject: Re: OT: Valley Boy (the Education of Tom Perkins) Message-ID: <2195fb7c-8e06-439d-961a-b24b4a1c10b1@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> On Jul 22, 10:23=A0am, DaveG wrote: > On Jul 22, 5:34=A0am, Neil Rieck wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 21, 6:40=A0am, Neil Rieck wrote: > > > > I just started reading the autobiography of Tom Perkins titled "Valle= y > > > Boy". In case anyone else is interested, the first twenty pages > > > discuss in detail what really happened between the HP board and Carly > > > Fiorina, Pattie Dunn, Jay Keyworth. > > > > p.s. I got the impression that Carly didn't think the board of > > > directors could tell her what to do. It sounds to me that HP could > > > have ended up being another company with a megalomaniacal CEO and an > > > impotent board (Enron? Hollinger International? Nortel?). HP really > > > dodged a bullet by bringing in Mark Hurd. > > > > Neil Rieck > > > Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, > > > Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ > > > Sorry for replying to my own post, but I just wanted to mention that > > this book contains a lot of cool stories about working for HP in the > > 1960s (Tom Perkins ran the computer division). It turns out that Bill > > Hewlett and David Packard were way cooler technophiles that I ever > > imagined. And although the date isn't given, HP considered buying DEC > > in the 1960s but the price was too high which is why they decided to > > build their own computers. > > > p.s. When I attended college, we had both a DEC PDP-12 as well as an > > HP-3000. At that time, the PDP was used to teach computer concepts to > > the technical students which included machine language programming > > from the front console, and macro assembler programming via macro > > assembler (programs were saved to DECtape). The HP was used to teach > > high level languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC. > > > Neil Rieck > > Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, > > Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ > > I was weened on a PDP-12 back in the early 70s at Loyola University > Medical Center. =A0Fond memories. > > And if this is the same Tom Perkins that was on 60 Minutes earlier > this year, I found him to be arrogant and disdainful while sitting on > his mega-million $$ yacht with the interviewer. =A0I now understand he's > getting rid of this toy. =A0I guess he tired of it. =A0I tired of him > while watching the interview.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Yep, it is the 60 minutes guy. I bought his book for several reasons: 1) Both Fiorina and Dunn slagged him in their books so I wanted to hear his side of the story. (especially since Dunn was the person who ordered the wire taps then ignored his advice to stop doing it) 2) I knew he had some sort of relationship with HP's founders. 3) I knew he was one of the VC guys behind Genentech 4) I knew he was once CEO of Tandem 5) I knew he was on the board of Compaq after they bought Tandem 6) I "think" he made it to the board of HP when Compaq merged with HP You are correct. In the interview he seemed very arrogant. However, chapter one of his book covers the cancer-death of his first wife and this made him seem very humble. p.s. he got an EE-CS from MIT and an MBA from Harvard so one of out two isn't bad :-) Neil Rieck Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/ ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.408 ************************