From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 15 14: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBFE14F4C for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18008; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:03:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd017997; Sat May 15 14:03:28 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27948; Sat, 15 May 1999 14:03:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905152103.OAA27948@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:03:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, des@flood.ping.uio.no, tlambert@primenet.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at May 15, 99 06:32:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I didn't say it was wrong. I don't like the monitors they ship with > (they're OK - I have an identical Hitachi-branded monitor at work - > but nowhere near as good as the trinitron monitors they ship with > high-end workstations), but they're nice little boxen. You are nuts. The Trinitron lines from the zero voltage base reference wires drive me absolutely frigging insane. It's totally impossible to do a large screen graphic of something like a projection of a modular form, and not see the whole thing intolerably marred by the damn parallel lines across the CRT. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message