From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 30 12:58:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC2D15A2B for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11356 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:58:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA73002 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:58:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B528F15A2B for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:58:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4B3E1C67; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:59:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF104381B; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:59:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:59:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matthew Dillon , bpederson@geocities.com, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern In-Reply-To: <199911302053.NAA05793@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > This is ridiculous. We aren't talking about people writing scripts > > here. We are talking about human nature. Human beings are not > > computers and expecting them to act like a computer in their everyday > > sysadmining is just plain ridiculous. > > Matt's right. He's right about human nature, though I don't see how the above or below prove that expecting linear PIDs is a good practice. > Expecting humans to exhibit this level of competence on average > is unreasonable. > > Instead, you should hire competent system admins, and expect that > average humans will be able to obtain jobs in the food service > industry. Someone has to ask good sysadmins whether or not they > want fries withtheir McMeals. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message