From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 5:49:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C1437B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fALDn5H04203; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:49:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <000f01c17293$494df7d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: Cc: References: <15354.60877.44081.17515@guru.mired.org><019701c17224$013e6520$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org><01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15355.6508.841314.798412@guru.mired.org> <005001c17288$c17d0800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3BFBA123.E3BBF104@globalnet.co.uk> <007601c1728a$2c67fbb0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3BFBA47C.5691D8D0@globalnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: home pc use Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:48:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 John writes: > Does that go for other software in your list too? No. > So you are working around the problem for them. Yes, if they pay me enough to make it worth my while. > In your own words "Incompatible | conflicting > != broken", or does that only hold for hardware? It holds for everything, but Netscape 4.x is not only incompatible with W3C standards, but it is also just plain broken in many ways. It crashes mysteriously or hangs on a fairly regular basis on those hellish occasions when I am forced to use it, for example. > Why then aren't you willing to work around the > problems you are having rather than just complaining > about FreeBSD/KDE/whatever? The mysterious boot, if that is what you have in mind, has not happened again, so there is nothing to work around. As for other problems, that is exactly what I have done, but that has not stopped me from speaking of them. > I really would like to see this thread completely > finished so that this list can get back to what it > used to be used for. I never used to find every > post useful, but it was never tedious. The rather obvious question, of course, is why you are posting to--and thus prolonging--a thread that you find tedious, and that you'd like to see finished. I simply don't read threads that I do not find interesting. It is much more logical and efficient than posting my complaints about their existence to them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message