From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 30 10:00:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21429 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f252.hotmail.com [207.82.251.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA21417 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neutrino2000@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 6908 invoked by uid 0); 30 Jul 1998 16:53:20 -0000 Message-ID: <19980730165320.6907.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 128.115.47.39 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:53:19 PDT X-Originating-IP: [128.115.47.39] From: "Neutrino Phantom" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:53:19 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:05:27 -0700 Sean Harding wrote: >Everyone is trying to show me performance stats to dispute my argument. >The fact is, I never said I *cared* about that. For me, it's a matter of >getting my job done. A lot of that is getting and keeping the machines up >and running. And that generally takes a lot less effort when it is a >workstation rather than a PC. As an administrator, _you_ might not care about performance, but the people you're supposed to be working for do. I'm using a Sun IPC at work, which is slow as hell compared to my dual P-Pro 200 desktop and my Pentium II 266 laptop. Come on, the Sun is slow compared to my girlfriend's 486 running Win95!! It's rather hard for me to get work done on the Sun, despite the fact that it's never crashed and has been nicely running as part of the network for quite some time. You may argue that I'm comparing archaic Suns with fairly new PC's, but that's the way it works when Suns are so expensive. If the government can't afford more than a few Ultras, how can the home user? **** "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?" -HHGTTG **** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message