From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 7 18:47:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15949 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:47:13 -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 SAA15935 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:47:10 -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 VAA23290; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 21:46:32 -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: <4.1.19981107214253.00a814c0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 21:44:24 -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: <19981108131027.H499@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.1.19981107211638.00af7eb0@genesis.ispace.com> <13980.910491197@time.cdrom.com> <3644F91A.E69CD49F@ukonline.co.uk> <13980.910491197@time.cdrom.com> <19981108124427.E499@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981107211638.00af7eb0@genesis.ispace.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 01:10 PM 11/8/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Saturday, 7 November 1998 at 21:17:52 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: >> 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 :-) > >Definitely not. But you're not the only kind of user, and maybe you'd >still like a FreeBSD mouse pad with a friendly daemon on the SGI box >you have on your desktop. > >> At the same time, my preferred pointing device is a Logitech Vista >> trackball. > >Ah. That's less useful. Still, trackballs aren't that common. I >found them quite useful on my cluttered desk before I went beyond >800x600. After that they become too difficult to point with >accurately. > >Greg 300dpi on my trackball.. extremely useful in anything from Photoshop to Command and Conquer: Red Alert.... I have no desk space.. my main machine is a DualPII-333 with 128mb and 17.7gig.. and it's sitting here at the edge of my bed.. I hate to sit up (my back sucks), so I just sorta like lay here and code... I find I'm more productive that way. --- 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