Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:19:42 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> To: Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net> Cc: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122161602.18621B-100000@dolphin.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970122063153.31150B-100000@wakko.gil.net>
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Uh, my wife has no idea how to use unix. Whe she logs in, X comes up, and all she has to do is click a mouse button to connect to the net. She starts netscape, pine, etc. from a mouse button. I also have buttons to disconnect and shutdown as necessary. On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Keith Leonard wrote: > Sorry, > > I despise Win95 so much that I don't even consider it in my ramblings. > Almost all my refereces are to win 3.0 and 3.1. I've installed over 150 > systems with 3.1 (standalone machines) and it is quite simple once you > understand it (which the average person is capable of - especially with > all the books available). Hell, I just set up a 70 year old retired guy > and his wife with 3.1 and all I have to do is say (over the phone) just > click here, then here and type this. TRY THIS WITH X! > > Inside of one week he is producing letters setting up databases and > connecting to the web. If I handed him a FreeBSD (or any other free Unix) > CD he shoot his machine inside of that week and go off to Tahiti to sun on > the beach. > > No Software is easy to a newbie - it's just that Billy boy promises shit > and at least delivers half a sack. > > > On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > > You must be. After spending two nights trying to get Win$%&(@#95 to > > recognize a PCI ethernet controller that FreeBSD probes with no > > problems, I'm ready to take the disk out and hit it with a hammer. Or > > better yet, just over that pile of BullBits(tm) with FreeBSD. Microsoft > > has, in this as in all things, made a lot of promises they do not live > > up to. Plug and play my bloody ass! > > Keith > keithl@wakko.gil.net > ------------------------------------------------------ > Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
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