Re: [tlug] What is the Sysadmin pager these days?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:44:01PM +0800, Raymond Wan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Benjamin Tayehanpour
> <benjamin@example.com> wrote:
> > On 18 February 2014 03:49, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:
> >> not
> >> covered in chewing gum or graffiti (like in most cities outside of
> >> Japan)
> >
> > Ho' there! Do you have anything to back that up? I'm fairly
> > well-travelled (thirty countries, four continents), and in my
> > experience the situation "outside of Japan" isn't nearly as bad as you
> > seem to imply. And yes, that's a thing I would notice, since I used to
> > be a bit of a phreak.
> 

I reckon you have not been to NYC in the last 10 years or so, though.  Even
before cell phones were commonplace, pay phones in NYC are a bit of an
adventure.  Homeless use them as toilets, among other things.

However, NYC is a bit of a cesspit, so probably not a proper gauge of the
world, though we like to think of ourselves as the center. 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Steinberg_New_Yorker_Cover.png


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