From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 15 16:05:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA01605 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01596 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-232.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.232]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA32117; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:05:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA19082; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:05:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709152305.SAA19082@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Marco Molteni cc: FreeBSD Chat , ct@ct.heise.de From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Testimonial In-reply-to: Message from Marco Molteni of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:35:12 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:05:18 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marco Molteni wrote: > > > I suspect the best thing would be to frequent the english articles > > posted on their web site. The fact people bother to hunt them down > > and read their stuff would be the best way to indicate a demand > > for their product. > > Yes, this could be an idea, although I do hate reading articles on > my web browser instead of reading them on paper. Now that I think > about it, the reason could be that I have a dial-up connection to > the Internet and that here in Italy we pay urban calls on a per minute > basis :-( Well, you don't have to *read* them, just trip their counters. :-) I'm using a script and wget to yank Dilbert every day and file him away in my personal archive. Much faster than letting a browser do it, then manually saving the image. Much faster for viewing later, too. > > Don't know how much good English would do for Marco in Itay, but he > > sure handles English better than I would Italian. > > Well, I do hope this is a compliment ;-). Maybe you David forget > that *all* the documentation on FreeBSD and/or computer science is > in english, so we "foreigners" have to know it. > > By the way, I like english, it's very terse compared to others > languages. If I read a technical paper, I know about 98-99% of the words. > If I read Time, well, I need a dictionary nearby, if I listen to an > american, well, maybe one or two beers could help ... ;-) > > > About all the Italian I know are "Ferrari" and "Michael > > Schumacher". :-) > > I can't believe you! What about pizza, spaghetti, paparazzo ? ;-) I thought those were American fake-Italian? Besides, the F-1 races are shown here early Sunday mornings. Pancake time. A bit too early for pizza, unless its cold leftovers from Saturday night. Besides, *I* thought claiming "Michael Schumacher" was Italian was a good pun, considering we were talking about the *German* magazine c't. (FYI: Michael is German, except for tax purposes.) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.