From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 22:41:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EF437B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fBD6ffo90413; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:41:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005201c183a1$39ae92c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Technical Information" , "FreeBSD Chat" , "Mike Meyer" References: <20011211140107.A67653@FreeBSD.org><0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><01121010202100.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><20011211144049.A14693@acidpit.org><20011211214943.A4489@tisys.org><15382.29599.349155.309028@guru.mired.org><20011211230257.A5157@tisys.org><4.3.2.7.2.20011212181551.015734a8@threespace.com><15384.11772.363959.693167@guru.mired.org><003701c18398$07091d30$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15384.17244.476714.955574@guru.mired.org><004901c1839d$b273c440$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15384.19146.990082.336336@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:41:40 +0100 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: > Really? They installed Windows on them, and got > them configured to talk to their choice of ISP > with no outside help from anyone at all, > and had no prior experience with computers? Yes. > I've never seen anyone do that. I have. It takes only one example to disprove your assertion. I don't know of anyone who has done the same with any version of UNIX, but then again, I know hardly anyone using UNIX on the desktop. > Everyone I know had Windows installed by someone > else, and required some outside assistance - usually > in the form of a CDROM from their ISP - to get > their network configured. A product CD-ROM counts as "outside assistance"? In that case, virtually no software can ever be installed without "outside assistance," which makes your assertion moot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message