Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:17:39 +0530 From: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd120@gmail.com> To: "soralx@cydem.org" <soralx@cydem.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <6a506d980609010247i4bfcafecoaead4b7e45311692@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200609010159.40972.soralx@cydem.org> References: <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <200609010011.47347.soralx@cydem.org> <8a0028260609010147w39261a2fk8c3446f57a5f9fa1@mail.gmail.com> <200609010159.40972.soralx@cydem.org>
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On 9/1/06, soralx@cydem.org <soralx@cydem.org> wrote: > > > If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? > > You did: by putting the disc in. > > Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. Indeed, no. And putting a CD-ROM in doesn't mean I want to mount it or read it. And putting in a memory stick doesn't mean I want to read it either. But, well over 99% of the time, these things are what I want to do. If I want to do something else with the DVD, well, I close the movie player and do something else. But 99% of the time, I'm grateful for the time it saves me. Also, if I'm the type who only ever inserts DVDs to rip them or do other nefarious things, I can always set up the system to *not* open the movie player automatically. But then most BSD users see things differently. How does the system know that I *want* /dev/ad1s2c mounted as /usr/local? I may sometimes want it mounted as /opt instead. For maximum flexibility, boot in single user mode with a ramdisk, and then mount all disks and start all services by hand. Rahul
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