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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:48:13 -0500
From:      "Conrad Sabatier" <conrads@home.com>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Volunteer needed
Message-ID:  <19990607114938.CGSH22376.mail.rdc1.tx.home.com@cx344940-a>
In-Reply-To: <19990607065429.B35729@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
References:  <19990606231057.A2820@ipass.net>; from Randall Hopper on Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 11:10:57PM -0400

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> On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 11:10:57PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> > Conrad Sabatier:
> > 
> >  |(now that I'm a full-fledged, full-time Windows 98 user once again), 
> > 
> > Huh?  What is this?  Full-time Win98?  Conrad, when you say something
> > like that, you have to give more info -- otherwise we'll just have to
> > assume you've lost it ;-)
> 
> Guess you missed his goodbye FreeBSD mail and subsequently the the thread?

Heh.  :-)

Well, to tell the truth, I've already come *this* close to saying "F" 
it, and coming back to FreeBSD.  Had a devil of a time 
troubleshooting a networking problem last night.  Was up into the 
wee hours of the morning, with god-know-how-many reboots, and 
still no luck.  Finally worked it out this morning, thank goodness, 
but talk about frustration there for a while!  I sure could have used 
some of the tools I've grown accustomed to using under FreeBSD, I 
can tell you that!

We'll see.  I have a feeling this little fling will wear itself out rather 
quickly, and I'll be back with you guys again, probably before the 
summer's even out.  :-)  While Windows *does* have a lot of neat 
toys you can download and play with, when I got to thinking about 
what I was doing the last few days, it dawned on me that all it was 
was the same stuff I would have been doing under Unix (reading 
news, mail, grabbing files, playing MIDIs and MP3s, etc.), only with 
a somewhat more glossy facade over it all, and a heck of a lot less 
"meat" underneath.

Besides, if I don't give FreeBSD another go, I'll never get to see 
what it would have been like to do a network install over a fast 
Ethernet connection.  Curiosity's *bound* to get the best of me.  :-)

God, I feel *so* much better this morning, now that my net is back 
up.

Catch ya'all later,

Conrad


--
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/


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