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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:54:35 -0400
From:      "Yong Lim" <yong@csfi.com>
To:        "'FreeBSD Newbies'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   ranting
Message-ID:  <NDBBLNEEEKNNPEMEDDDKOEIACFAA.yong@csfi.com>
In-Reply-To: <38E947B2.DD87C47B@home.com>

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I must be reading too much /. to think I should have an opinion on an OS.  I
don't think paying a subscription to the CD's would qualify either.  I guess
just take this as what it is a grain of salt.

Not that I am that new to Unix system.  As with most everyone else these
days my day job is writing c codes on NCR Unix, Unixware, AIX and Solaris
(install this os on PC partition...sweet install).  That still does not
qualify me as anything other then a newbies here.

Now on to my ranting...what's with the Backspace key?  Running vi from xterm
will not function the same as running vi from rxvt.  Okay, a problem so I
sent out an email.  I am grateful for each an every responses and someone
suggests that I look at terminfo.  Has anyone look at that file?  It is
scary to pull that thing up.  Second thing to do search the web for answer.
Someone on the web did have two wonderful and descriptive description of the
problem for Linux.  It has a wonderful history of the original problem where
it started during the punch card period.  Now the last update to this web
page was Sunday, February 27, 2000 17:29:48.  How many years now?  And no
one think to solve this problem or choices?  As most people might know BSD
has as good and long history in it, that's probably why a similar article on
how to solve this problem will come up shortly since BSD might not goes to
the punch card period.  The hippies started a bite later.

Second ranting...I don't like MS.  And FreeBSD and Lunix will take over MS
one day.  But has anybody read the manual lately?  Before installing be sure
to run Control Panel and notes all the IRQ's for the devices, the manual
would read.  Does anyone not see the problem here?  This would mean that
there's an existing running Window already.  Forgive the soul who wrote the
IRQ wrong and install his brand new os over Windows.  Assuming the OS
install went well and you need to have ppp going.  Well, you don't have the
sio map to the correct IRQ.  Well, you need to rebuild the kernel.  There
are good articles and instruction on the web for doing this.  I guess I
should have known since a article by that gerbils loving guy an titled
"FreeBSD for the SVR4/Linux Administrator" dealt exclusively with rebuilding
the kernel.  If I don't know what a gerbil is I should cancel my
subscription.

Well, I do have a Quadra 800 with 8 Meg of Ram and 500 Meg filling to the
brim and it still works.  May be aught to check out Apple again, I heard
that they are developing a sweet, you can lick it OS.  I must be see things
as underneath that smiling Mac screen there's that three characters again
BSD.  Those damn hippies they are getting to everything now.

Yong



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