From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 25 23:22:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04432 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-216.airnet.net [207.242.81.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04201 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01013; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 01:14:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <365CFFED.47D2FABF@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 01:14:53 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another canidate for fortune? (Was: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD?) References: <1045.912060795@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Tell you what, Jordan: If you're ever hit by a car, remind me to blame > > you for leaving the house. > > > > Assuming that I was hit by the car while crossing the street outside a > cross-walk and without looking first, this is a good analogy if you > don't quibble about the fact that the blame would more correctly fall > upon my failure to look where I was going than on the act of simply > leaving my house. It also supports my point, however, so I guess I'd > also have to thank you for the fine analogy and congradulate you on > finally getting the idea after having so many people attempt (and > fail) to inject it directly into your head with the aid of particle > accellerators and such. > > If you're using getting hit by a car as symbology for "a random act of > god", on the other hand, then it's unfortunately a rather poor analogy > on account of the fact that it a) shows a fundamental lack of > understanding about what precipitates the great majority of auto > accidents (driver error) and b) incorrectly equates the perils of > system administration with that of random meteor impacts and other > events completely outside one's control. A good system administrator > has a great deal more control over their environment than that and can > take a wide variety of preventive measures not available to the > Extinction Event Scenario folks in order to prevent situations exactly > like yours from occurring at all. > > Oh yeah, and transitive closure over a virtualized interface boundry. > I almost forgot that bit. > > IMHO, very funny. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message