Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:32:22 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011121203222.C26507@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <001f01c171cf$430e8ac0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120023948.A92409@xor.obsecurity.org> <00df01c171b0$2a938be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120105642.GA75918@rhadamanth> <012d01c171b6$96b5adc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120114236.GA76431@rhadamanth> <005f01c171bf$c4d06b10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120131850.GA77414@rhadamanth> <001f01c171cf$430e8ac0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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> From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> > To: "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net> > Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Re: home pc use > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:25:37 +0100 > > Ceri writes: <snip> > > All of these are things that one could expect > > from someone with only 3 weeks experience of an > > OS, but I honestly think that you would benefit > > from doing some background reading. > > Thank you for your suggestion. > > I was hoping that you might offer more information on FreeBSD, instead of your > armchair evaluation of my competence in IT. If all responses to my questions > and comments were similar, I should indeed be restricted to reading elsewhere to > obtain the information I require. This illustrates to some extent my comments > about support being difficult to get for FreeBSD (and other open-source > products). <snip> > > If you seriously wish to use FreeBSD in a > > production environment, then it's even more > > important that you familiarise yourself with > > the system : how to upgrade it, how to install > > new software, how to get the sources, how it is > > different from other systems, how it is similar > > to other systems. You don't seem prepared to > > do this. > > That's what I'm doing, although I've discovered that this list, at least, is > nearly useless for that purpose. One need only read your own post, and others > like it, and distill the real, useful information they contain, if any, to see > how poorly this list fulfills its nominal role. And the nominal role is? Doing your homework? I think you must be kidding, or drunk. Oh wait, maybe you could sue the people on the list for not installing and configuring your machine for you. "Judge, those lazy bastards told me to _do something on my own_ instead of doing my homework for me. And it didn't get any better when I told them several times that they all sucked along with the system I hadn't paid a nickle for!" I haven't seen a flamebait as arrogant as the yours one... never. You've just made it to my maildroprc. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 8:22PM up 29 days, 7:05, 3 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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