From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 21:34:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA8137B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 21:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19421 invoked by uid 100); 8 Dec 2001 05:34:26 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15377.42594.596875.611015@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:34:26 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: , Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. In-Reply-To: <00f801c17fa9$7f3a6ae0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr> <005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011207233330.GC14758@hades.hell.gr> <008d01c17f9a$9046ba50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.36760.704000.108034@guru.mired.org> <00be01c17f9d$472c8ea0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.37406.600708.953634@guru.mired.org> <00d401c17fa0$09134fc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.18218.830731.410656@guru.mired.org> <008101c17f9a$1a4a4290$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.36617.358466.76379@guru.mired.org> <00ab01c17f9d$0bde8510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.37214.213789.306335@guru.mired.org> <00c901c17f9f$e80a95e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.38817.965814.78679@guru.mired.org> <00f801c17fa9$7f3a6ae0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.40/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Anthony Atkielski types: > Mike writes: > > A good manager knows that "not choosing" is a > > valid choice, and will arrange to get more information. > As I've said, sometimes you _must_ make a decision with only the information > that you have. And as I said, a good manager will decide not to decide. > > That they not waste their money. > But they insist on buying something, as I have said, so you must recommend > something. In which case, I'll recommend they give me enough information to make a decision. While you may be willing to give someone bad advice based on your religious convictions, I'm not. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message