Umask and redhat (updated)

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:13 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: Umask and redhat (updated)
>>
>>Waldher, Travis R wrote:
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
>>>>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:43 PM
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>>>>Ok, RECESS TIME!  Who's up for a game of softball? :-)
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>>>Not me... I'm 20 or so minute from getting out of here.
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>>>Hopefully it won't take me 5 HOURS to commute home like it did last 
>>>night. *sigh*
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>>Lordy!  How far is it and have you thought of getting an ultralight?
> 
> 
> Normally when I drive, it's a 60 mile trip.  Took me 35 minutes to go
> the first 30 miles, then I hit the Tacoma Narrows bridge backup, which
> was one of those 10 bad nights out of the year because someone decided
> to get in to a wreck on it.

Isn't that the bridge that went daft back in the 50's...started dancing
then fell into the river?

>                             I spend 1 hour going 2-3 blocks, with no
> relief in sight since a game would be letting loose soon at Cheney
> stadium.  So I gave up and drove to Olympia and back up to bremerton.
> About 90 miles.

Been there and done that.  It truly sucks when there's only one route
to go.

> Left work at 4:30, had a 20 minute chiropractor appt, and got home at
> about 9:40pm.
> 
> Today, it's the normal ferry route, only takes 2 hours total each way.
> (I'de buy a speed boat, but the fuel costs would probably be brutal)

Hmmmm.  Well, a diesel boat probably wouldn't cost that much, but then
you'd need two slips (one at each end) and such.  It depends on how much
you value your time.  Or, get a sea plane (Cessna 172s with floats
don't cost that much and flying is fun).

I have a friend that has to commute about 30 miles each way, but it's
on the infamous 405 freeway here in SoCal and through one of the worst
stretches (several interchanges and the traffic for LAX).  She lives
in Corona del Mar and works at TRW in Hawthorne.

She (with my goading) got her pilot's license and bought a Cessna 150
for about $12,000.  She drives her Porsche 10 minutes to John Wayne
airport in the morning, gets in the plane, flies to Hawthorne airport,
gets on her motorcycle and rides 10 minutes to work.  In the afternoon,
she reverses the trip.  She claims it shaves 30 minutes off the trip
each way and she doesn't get frustrated with traffic.  The plane burns
about $12.00 in fuel each round trip.  Her tiedown at John Wayne costs
$100/month and it's free at Hawthorne since she buys her fuel there.

She's now got about 3,000 hours in the 150.  The last guy I saw with
that kind of seat time in a 150 was a flight instructor.  Heck, I've
only got 2,200 hours in my Comanche and I've owned it six years longer
than she's had her plane.
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