From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 20:21:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA89A37B405 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 95279 invoked by uid 100); 3 Dec 2001 04:21:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15370.64965.526103.881475@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:21:25 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Technical Information" , "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) In-Reply-To: <01bb01c17bb1$78653110$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org> <040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org> <003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org> <005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011202215531.018f3d80@threespace.com> <15370.62287.191056.315669@guru.mired.org> <019501c17baf$4ae465a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15370.63985.8644.745618@guru.mired.org> <01bb01c17bb1$78653110$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski types: > Mike writes: > > Oh, horse pucky. Anyone who noticed that time > > passes knows that computers crashing sucks. > Most people don't experience crashes with the frequency that you adumbrate. The people I know do. If you have a pointer to a survey that indicates the opposite is true for the general populace, I'd be interested in reading it. > Even when crashes occur, for the casual desktop user they are inconsequential. Correct. They just suck. > I've known several people, in fact, who reset the machine whenever they are > having a problem, just to see if that helps--obviously crashes are not a concern > for them, if they can do a hardware reset without blinking an eye. The best thing about windows is that many problems *can* be fixed by rebooting the system. That doesn't change the fact that reboots - whether intentional or not - represent a waste of time, and hence suck. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message