From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 10:50:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE01F16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD67E43D5E for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:50:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:50:26 +0200 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:50:24 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050329125024.4d3577d3.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <1648629793.20050329122346@wanadoo.fr> References: <42480F8B.1060405@makeworld.com> <1648629793.20050329122346@wanadoo.fr> Organization: nagual SiTe X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dick@nagual.st List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:50:33 -0000 On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:23:46 +0200 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > The key point here, though, is that Windows apparently works correctly > with the firmware, whatever changes that firmware may contain. > FreeBSD does not. Therefore FreeBSD is broken. Wrong. Windows does /not/ work correctly with the firmware if you let it use it's own drivers (like FreeBSD does). /Both/ OS's choke then! > Forget the case-open switch and the three-dimensional beeping animated > temperature monitoring application, and just buy commodity hardware > and software. In exchange for sacrificing a few frills, you get > something that behaves predictably and can be maintained cheaply > without critical dependencies on one supplier. Right. Plus Windows as well as FreeBSD will run on it flawlessly. So what's your point in all those previous messages if you knew so well what was the correct attitude in buying hardware? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja