Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:38:55 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Jason" <kib@mediaone.net>, "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>, <ldmservices@charter.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! Message-ID: <072301c06a2e$11c77ca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <002301c06a1d$a52783c0$19bad818@debbie> <002701c06a25$27e7c9d0$aa240018@cx443070b> <006a01c06a40$11ffc580$ad181f40@bignet.net> <06fc01c06a28$7d9c3840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <00b401c06a45$4d279020$ad181f40@bignet.net>
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We get plenty power outages even in capital cities here thanks to various political games being played by .....hmmmmmm now there's a story that some one the list might appreciate :) Were you aware where the word "politics" originated ?? Well firstly there's "poli" which comes from some old greek / roman / latin / whatever and means "many" ..... then there's "ticks", which as we all know are "bloodsucking parasites" .........ergo ..... policics means "many bloodsucking parasites" !!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason" <kib@mediaone.net> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>; "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>; <ldmservices@charter.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! > You woldnt believe. comes with the fact I live way out in the boonies. > Everytime the wind blows too hard power comes and goes....if its real bad it > can go down for hours/days. > > and I live in a state not really known for wind problems. Just the long > haul power lines are stretched a long ways between poles and the wind can > invoke a safety mechanism that opens the curcuit in case power line if broke > under the stress. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> > To: "Jason" <kib@mediaone.net>; "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>; > <ldmservices@charter.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:59 PM > Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! > > > > Do you have power failures in yankeeland too ?? > > > > and here I was thinking they only happened in OZ !!!!!! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jason" <kib@mediaone.net> > > To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>; <ldmservices@charter.net>; > > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 2:48 PM > > Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! > > > > > > > I stopped doing that when I formated my NT4 box for FreeBSD 3.3 :) > > > Now I have more heair on my head and more time to pray for more > improtant > > > things....like having enough APC units to withstand the next inevidable > > > power failure. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> > > > To: <ldmservices@charter.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:35 PM > > > Subject: Re: Why do you support Yahoo! > > > > > > > > > -sniped all the flames- > > > > Like network operating systems have anything to do with > > > > religion (unless you pray for your server to work) ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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