Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <XFMail.010414133447.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010414134832.0499ff00@localhost>
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On 14-Apr-01 Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >>And what would you call the Windows registry? >> >>The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall >>everything. That's always an option on any operating system, but >>(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on >>FreeBSD. > > The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's > eggs in one fragile, insecure basket. s/Windows Registry/netinfo database/, s/Windows Registry/\/etc directory/, etc. The whole system is a fragile basket. This is why we have the nifty feature known as 'backups'. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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