From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 03:48:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7AB16A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (adsl-068-157-070-217.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [68.157.70.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A1043D41 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-222-79-36.jan.bellsouth.net [68.222.79.36]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278FB157E1; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:48:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 025AF20F2A; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:48:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:48:41 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-ID: <20040414104841.GC1274@over-yonder.net> References: <20040413153704.GB3304@joloxbox> <20040413153552.G83142@earl.sasknow.net> <407C7581.7010807@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <407C7581.7010807@daleco.biz> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i-fullermd.2 cc: Joshua Lokken cc: Ryan Thompson cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advanced DOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:48:48 -0000 On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 06:19:29PM -0500 I heard the voice of Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P., and lo! it spake thus: > > A little wm, a little root window decorated with your SO, your > company logo, your kids, your dog, some chick wrapped in plastic*, Cotton, not plastic. Show the softer side, y'know. > But you have a difficult uphill battle to convince Johnny Q. Public > of that. Color it up a bit. You might even make some of them > curious enough to learn more about it.... Or, you could just use the apps that work well for you, and pretend it's a workstation rather than a billboard... All my Linux-using friends chuckle at the sight of me sitting there running ctwm. I chuckle back every other week as they describe blowing a day upgrading to the latest {KDE,Gnome} and how pretty the 2/3 of apps that still work are. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"