From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 7 4:49:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tx.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tx.home.com [24.4.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1C714C57 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 04:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@mail) Received: from cx344940-a ([24.6.21.74]) by mail.rdc1.tx.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990607114938.CGSH22376.mail.rdc1.tx.home.com@cx344940-a>; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 04:49:38 -0700 From: "Conrad Sabatier" Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:48:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Volunteer needed Reply-To: conrads@home.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-Id: <19990607114938.CGSH22376.mail.rdc1.tx.home.com@cx344940-a> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message