From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 6 11:22:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00723 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00706 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 11:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA28491; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 20:22:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24100; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:47:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970706184711.RL39115@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:47:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSd Chat list) Cc: francisco@natserv.com (Francisco Reyes) Subject: Re: I will sue FreeBSD project (..attempt at a joke..) References: <199707061607.MAA03018@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707061607.MAA03018@federation.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Jul 6, 1997 12:05:26 -0400 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Francisco Reyes wrote: > After having problems with what I think is an incorrect Geometry I was > trying things with Pfdisk and ended up wiping up wiping out my entire > HD. > > I am thinking on suing the FreeBSD project (again this is just a > --joke--). The joke aside, better sue the inventors of PCs. While all the disks have been block-addressed internally for years now, the PC is still of the dreadful opinion it would need a ``geometry'' for handling a disk. That's the root of all evil (along with all the consequences of this geometry, like a stumpled BIOS, an fdisk table with two redundant specifications of where a slice starts and ends, etc.) Perhaps people now understand why i love the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode... it doesn't care much for anything like a ``geometry''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)