Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:18:51 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some performance issues Message-ID: <386FCECB.894E4548@nwlink.com> References: <386C023E.680FC31@inna.net> <386C0676.F39EC477@3-cities.com> <386C2354.ABD1ED54@nwlink.com> <386C3173.1D695393@3-cities.com> <386C543D.6E59C9DF@nwlink.com> <19991231104441.C2609@emu.sourcee.com> <386CE8AB.29A140B5@nwlink.com> <386CF9DC.B71A9887@3-cities.com> <386D3D3C.C92D02A3@nwlink.com> <386D5C88.B8257D45@3-cities.com> <386D8ABD.C2894A91@nwlink.com> <386D9271.C3B7DD95@3-cities.com> <386F2582.E5910672@nwlink.com> <386F9EA4.66B1B919@3-cities.com>
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> > > > > > > > Happy New Year (why am I sitting at this computer 8-) )! > > > > > > Well, if it makes you feel better, there are two of us doing the same > > > thing. I hit my first 2000 problem. I wanted to do an update from > > > today's Stock Market with Quicken 99 and I suddenly had 3 accounts > > > that were each worth $10-40M US. Something overflowed. The smallest > > > account was the one that jumped to $40M. The system was quickly > > > restored from the last backup and now I'm installing Quicken 2000. > > > People believe stuff like this. All I could do was chuckle. It is also > > > the first time I ran Quicken since I upgraded to Windows 2000 gold. > > > > I just had my first y2k problem too. After eating too much celebratory > > ben&jerry's ice cream last night, I proceeded to delete the contents of > > my /usr/bin directory. I tried a number of things like just going in to > > /usr/src/usr.bin and doing 'make'. I didn't have 'make' anymore. > > Luckily, I had an unused partition on my hard drive. I decided to > > install a 4.0 snapshot from a cdrom onto it. From there, I mounted my > > -STABLE /usr and copied the contents from the 4.0 /usr/bin into the > > -STABLE. Then I rebooted the -STABLE, and tried to remake the /usr/bin > > directory again using the -STABLE sources. I got an error message that > > said something like "This isn't NetBSD. You lose!" I thought that was > > cruel. > > Think of it as shock therapy. You were trying something that was > really a bad idea and they wanted to wake you up :). > Why is it a bad idea to remake that directory? It seemed like a much quicker way to fix the system than to make world all over again. Joseph > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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