From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 22 04:27:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14829 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14822 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA03531; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:26:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:26:23 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake Cc: Chris Dillon , "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers References: <19980922140459.61177@welearn.com.au> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 22 Sep 1998 13:26:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sue Blake's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:04:59 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA14825 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake writes: > To do so would require enormous sums spent on full (not just token) > training, support, and work time to play with the system to get to know > it and fix it afterwards. Of course that's not on, too expensive, > risky, and we just want them to be able to type! If all they want is to be able to type, give 'em a bloody typewriter and keep all the nifty hardware in your office so you can play Quake with a decent frame rate. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message