From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 17 17:26: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1B937B6C8 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b115.otenet.gr [195.167.121.243]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6I0NDO22630; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:23:13 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e6I0QSI81124; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:26:28 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:26:27 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Ovens Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Software and failure (was: HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!) Message-ID: <20000718032627.A81069@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:00:36PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: ... > "...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 :) This belief that any given piece of software has the right to crash in all the most unexpected moments, is in general one of the bad things one gets accustomed to when he has never noticed that there are far more reliable, and more stable pieces of software around. This is actually one of the common characteristics of almost all the Windows users I've ever known. *sigh* -- giorgos keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message