From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 14:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2D937BF9F for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2075.bossig.com [208.26.242.75]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:31:18 -0800 Message-ID: <38D00CEB.9D1DE7AE@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:21:31 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J McKitrick Cc: Mark Ovens , Joe Karthauser , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 questions References: <20000315194743.F52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315195316.A5217@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315200915.G52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315202416.B38482@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315202923.D5433@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315211255.B244@parish> <20000315211902.B5892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38D000ED.25EADBC5@3-cities.com> <20000315214051.G244@parish> <20000315215137.B6240@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J McKitrick wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > What kind of box are you running? > > > > > > I wanted to ask the same question because on my 450 a buildworld > > > requires 1936 seconds (49 mins WClock), > > > > Go on, cheer me up why don't you :) > > And then you'll turn around and take potshots at mine, right? > ;-) When you have been in this business for a while, you will learn that you have to be able to take the potshots. It is even better if you laugh when it is funny and on you :). My rule is that if you haven't made a mistake today, you haven't done anything. The trick is to recognize something dumb before it affects someone else. When the mistake affects 50+ people, you are the object of ire :). I have long felt I was a lightening rod for computer bugs. I have a manual on Tidy for Fortran written by Murphy (the orginal author). I figure that when I make the switch to 4.0 it will be like the early days of NT beta's. What is the latest estimate 63,000 bugs in W2K. If you beta test, they will noticeably affect someone else's computer. I didn't stay -current and I believe that I am going to have an interesting time when I switch. This occured during the switch from 3.1S to 3.2RC through 3.3S. Version 3.4 was different. There were a lot of changes but they didn't make my machine unstable. I can't expect 4.0 to be any different than the early 3.x versions. Kent > > jm > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick / jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > "Tears from the depth of some divine despair > rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes > in looking on the happy autumn fields > and thinking of the days that are no more" > --------------------------------------------- -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message