From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 21 18:15:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from student-mailhub.dcu.ie (ns.dcu.ie [136.206.1.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914C337B9D0 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie) Received: from enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie (postfix@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie [136.206.15.5]) by student-mailhub.dcu.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3/893-FD) with ESMTP id CAA12513 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 02:15:05 GMT Received: by enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie (Postfix, from userid 2034) id E56217C94; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:54:00 +0000 From: David Murphy To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?) Message-ID: <20000322015400.B34538@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <20000321170118.M5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:27:33PM -0800 X-no-archive: yes Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting by Doug Barton : > > but upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 is fiddly, and it > > doesn't help that the instructions are counterintuitively at the > > bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING which, to the untrained eye, looks like a > > changelog, and lusers like me don't read changelogs to see if someone > > happened to put vital instructions at the bottom of it. > Caveat compiler. We NEVER suggest that lusers (or, less > experienced users) upgrade from source, even for a point release. We > ALWAYS tell them to upgrade from CD, or wipe their disk and do a clean > install. If you choose the upgrade from source path, YOU take > responsibility for adequately educating yourself. Period, end of story. Where, where, WHERE the F*** do "WE" say that? I'm stupid, point it out to me. REERENCE the blindingly obvious piece of documentation I so obviously missed. $50 Amazon gift certificate thing to the first person that points out where on www.freebsd.org this is clearly stated. No, refernces to mailing list postings won't do - I want to see where a perfectly ordinary intelligent sysadmin new to FreeBSD would find this information. Go on, I fscking DARE somebody. -- When asked if it is true that he uses his wheelchair as a weapon he will reply: "That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it." Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html] David Murphy - For PGP public key, send mail with Subject: send-pgp-key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message