From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 21:47: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B569F37B41C for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fAL5jcR23047; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Jan Grant" Cc: "setantae" , "questions" Subject: RE: home pc use Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:45:38 -0800 Message-ID: <002c01c1724f$bf93c580$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <008501c171f9$233de9a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony >Atkielski > >I'm not without experience in IT, and I know that hardware nowadays virtually >never breaks. People who immediately suspect hardware are usually trying to >protect their feelings of affection for some piece of software, somewhere. Absolute rubbish. There's still plenty of incompatible and conflicting hardware. Lots of cards work perfectly well in one system but badly in another, under Windows or any other OS. Suspecting hardware in a fault is perfectly legitimate. However it can't stop there, you have to substitute with different hardware and see if the problem follows the hardware or follows the software. The problem is that the people that suspect hardware and aren't willing to swap it out are protecting their feelings of affection for some piece of hardware, somewhere. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message