From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 20:37:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BD237B405 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:37:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB34b1x77363; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:37:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01c001c17bb4$274fde80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Technical Information" , "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" 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> <15370.64965.526103.881475@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:37:00 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Mike writes: > The people I know do. The people I know don't. > 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. If you have a pointer to a survey that indicates that your experience is representative of the general population, I'd be interested in reading it. > Correct. They just suck. Not even that. A lot of people think nothing of booting the machine. It's like turning a light on and off. > The best thing about windows is that many > problems *can* be fixed by rebooting the > system. If problems can be fixed by rebooting, then they are probably not Windows problems at all, but instead problems with applications. > That doesn't change the fact that reboots - > whether intentional or not - represent a > waste of time, and hence suck. Driving a car that can't reach 150 mph wastes time, too, but most people don't worry about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message