From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 3: 9:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DCEB37B968 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 03:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.181] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ya717598 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 06:08:28 -0400 From: Walter Brameld To: bduk@earthlink.net, Derrick Baumer , jdunham@fc.net Subject: Re: Dumb terminal vendor Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:07:32 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: brameld@twave.net, jdunham@fc.net, dan@mostgraveconcern.com, abc@firehouse.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004050925.CAA01820@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200004050925.CAA01820@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00040507083600.01324@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Derrick Baumer wrote: > > From: Jerry Dunham > > > > Walter Brameld babbled: > > > From brameld@twave.net Tue Apr 4 18:09:21 2000 > > > > > On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > > > Dan O'Connor babbled: > > > >> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:18:27 -0700 > > > > > > > >>>Note in this context, "notebook" is not == "laptop". It probably means a > > > >>>pad of paper and a pencil with few I/O capabilities beyond "erase". 8-) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Oh. They still make those? > > > > > > > > I think mine's broken. I can't even find the "erase" button on this > > > > thing. It says "Bic" on the side, so could it be that I just have a > > > > poorly designed brand? I can get a command line, but the GUI is quite > > > > poor. Maybe it's just downrev. > > > > > > They usually only tend to get GUI if you leave them in your shirt > > > pocket too long... > > > > Why do you think I consider the GUI quite poor? At the price of replace- > > ment shirts it doesn't take many GUIs to make ME poor. I must need a new > > notebook. I hear the one called "Etch-A-Sketch" is quite nice, and the > > "erase" functions well. It even has a more advanced GUI that doesn't ruin > > shirt pockets. The command line interface sucks, though. > > Okay, okay. I rescind my question. :) Y'all are having too much fun > with this thing. Yes, I should have known. I should have > anticipated. I did not and I have learned my lesson. > > (y'all are crackers, you know that?) Well, I do live in the South right now, but I grew up in New Jersey so the local Crackers will always consider me an outsider 8-) . -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message