From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 17 14: 1: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13D537C0FD for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.98.178]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000717210054.LBHQ26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:00:54 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02524; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:00:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:00:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Linh Pham Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Brett Glass , "Thomas M. Sommers" , "Jason C. Wells" , Alfred Perlstein , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED! Message-ID: <20000717220036.B240@parish> References: <20000716232718.C75200@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@q.closedsrc.org on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:21:08PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:21:08PM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > > Or would that be Larry Ellison or Scott McNealy? :) > :) Just to change the subject slightly, I've just been watching a TV program about some work being done in the US (the PATH project) on road safety which includes some special lanes on a San Diego freeway where they had a line of cars linked together by a comms system that were driving along about a car's length apart at 60mph. The presenter asked one of the engineers what they were doing to deal with potential computer failures, to which the engineer replied: "...as anyone who has a PC on their desk knows, the number of times their Microsoft operating system crashes shows that is a real problem we have to try and overcome" Guess they've never heard of FreeBSD :) > // Linh Pham > // > // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD > // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org > // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org > > /* "Oregon, n.: > Eighty billion gallons of water > with no place to go on > Saturday night." > */ > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:50:18AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:29:30PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > >> At 04:19 PM 7/15/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > >> >> >Umm. What ways less than a duck? :) > > >> >> > > >> >> Why a duck? ;-) > > >> > > > >> >Why a fence? > > >> > > >> I don't know; the fence was mysteriously stolen. > > >> > > >> And I can't figure out why anyone would take a fence. > > > > > > In a world without fences, there's no need for Gates. > > > > So, it was a penguin that stole the fence. *duck* > > > > -- > > Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > > > Public PGP key at: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr > > > -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message