From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 20:18:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1126637B405 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:18:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB34Hmx77310; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:17:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01bb01c17bb1$78653110$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Technical Information" , "FreeBSD Chat Mailing List" References: <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org><040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org><003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org><005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org><4.3.2.7.2.20011202215531.018f3d80@threespace.com><15370.62287.191056.315669@guru.mired.org><019501c17baf$4ae465a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15370.63985.8644.745618@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:17:48 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > Oh, horse pucky. Anyone who noticed that time > passes knows that computers crashing sucks. Most people don't experience crashes with the frequency that you adumbrate. Even when crashes occur, for the casual desktop user they are inconsequential. I've known several people, in fact, who reset the machine whenever they are having a problem, just to see if that helps--obviously crashes are not a concern for them, if they can do a hardware reset without blinking an eye. > I guess your friends aren't cognizant of time > passing, then. I'm not sure what the passage of time has to do with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message