From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 6:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D656D37B402 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 06:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0QEU6r12374; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:30:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <018c01c1a675$f3dcc1c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C5270E4.BF21F79B@mindspring.com> <011b01c1a659$fb98a670$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C52AB34.B8896C8D@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:30:06 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry writes: > Can you back this statement up? Only empirically. > Complexity is an emergent property of even > incredibly simple-seeming systems. But that's not what I said. I said that the more complex a system is, the less stable it will tend to be. This has nothing to do with whether or not a seemingly simple system is in fact complex. > Why you are for maintaining the status quo > of monumental effort ... I'm not. It makes no difference to me, since I do not build dual-boot systems. > I guess tyhis is OK for a developer ... It is okay for a production system or network, too. Few systems operate in isolation these days. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message