From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 21:29:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1751216A4CF for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F9A43D41 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j1SLTHbJ027700 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:18 GMT Message-ID: <42238E68.3090604@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:34:32 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42224A80.9010109@wanadoo.es> <956831073.20050228205253@wanadoo.fr> <20050228140846.Y94755@makeworld.com> <1349830048.20050228211534@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1349830048.20050228211534@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:29 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > RacerX writes: > > >>The hardware has ran for over 8 years - you don't think that after 8 years >>its going to show wear and tear? I do/would. > > > It's not going to suddenly fail on the very day and hour that I install > FreeBSD. > Sounds like the perfect time for them to go wrong. They have been doing the same thing for 8 years without problem. Probably ageing gracefully. Suddenly you come along and give them a good old shake up...I would imagine this would be the perfect occasion for this to happen. > >>We as humans are not perfect - so that means the things we make can't be >>perfect either. They will break down, even die. I suspect that if you put >>in new hardware, the issues will remove themselves. > > > No, they will not. Unless someone can explain to me what the problem is > with FreeBSD, the only way to resolve the issues is to reinstall Windows > NT, which doesn't seem to have a problem with these SCSI drives. >