From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 7 18:20:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12650 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12626 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4031.ime.net [209.90.195.41]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id VAA23269; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 21:20:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981107211638.00af7eb0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 21:17:52 -0500 To: Greg Lehey , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Christopher Raven From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: FreeBSD giveaway pens (was: I Need Advice) Cc: Licia , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981108124427.E499@freebie.lemis.com> References: <13980.910491197@time.cdrom.com> <3644F91A.E69CD49F@ukonline.co.uk> <13980.910491197@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:44 PM 11/8/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Saturday, 7 November 1998 at 18:13:17 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >>> I believe the mouse pads stalled when it was mentioned Walnut Creek >>> was going to pick up on them. Guess we are still waiting on that one? >> >> At this time, we do not plan on mouse pads. > >Any reason why not? I still think these are the kind of advertisment >most likely to get attention from potential users. > >Greg I dunno about you, but my FreeBSD box is near my network patch panel with no monitor, keyboard or mouse breathing on it.. I'm sure I'm not the only one like that :-) At the same time, my preferred pointing device is a Logitech Vista trackball. It's lower maint than Mice, partially because of gravity, and partially because if the rollers are gummed, I just screw driver off the crap off the rollers, and it's flawless again.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message