Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:19:04 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: (fwd) Re: Wanted Unix Administrator Message-ID: <19991007231903.U86678@holly.calldei.com>
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Throwing a juicy piece of steak into the advocacy pit. :) Ignoring the contraversial first non-quoted paragraph, this is a great article. This article's Message-ID is <jlP9NwBdXsu2ufKn0zytwDvyyoyf@4ax.com> ----- Forwarded message ----- Rev. Don Kool wrote: >danielt@danielt.dgii.com wrote: >> Rev. Don Kool <oldno7@home.com> wrote >> >"Gary L. Burnore" wrote: >> >> Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> >Rev. Don Kool <oldno7@home.com> wrote: >> > >> >> >>> The world record for transfers is currently held by a non-cray, non-sgi, >> >> >>> non-sun, non-Digital Unix system. Is a world record considered high end? >> >> > >> >> >> No, it is considered a stunt. Do you belive that Cindy Margolis is >> >> >> the most beautiful girl in the world? >> >> > >> >> > No, handling high amounts of data in the real world is >> >> >called "reliability." >> >> >> >> Reverand Don obviously only keeps his "church" records on his computer. He >> >> doesn't NEED real world reliability. He doesn't NEED high end or world record >> >> data throughput. Because he doesn't need it, he can't understand why anyone >> >> else would. Since he's never understood the innerworkings of operating systems >> >> with the minutely possible exception of his favorite brand, he's trapped >> >> himself and he can't get up. >> > >> > You'll have to excuse Gary. He's still trying to figure out how to >> >work a kill file. ROTFLOLASTD!! > >> Are you trying to say that you want to be added to our killfiles Don? > > No, it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. You just need to >know Gary's ways to understand it. He talks a big show about >putting people in his killfile (like they should care) and then >keeps responding to them. He's mad at me because one time when he >got shitty with me I checked him out on the 'net and found out that >he is on probation for being a child molester. He flames everyone >but never contributes any help beyond RTFM. I'm sure you'll see him >around here some more. Notwithstanding your hatred of Gary Burnore, who is not a child molester, though who is perhaps a perplexed soul who needs, and, I trust, has found help, your implicit challenge as the non-pareil of UNIX admins could not go unchallenged. I had never used FreeBSD before, but I decided to give it a try after your unending diatribes against it (and against Linux). See, you come off as half-smart, but not truly smart -- about as smart as a robot. How could a man who claims to know so much about all of UNIX be so thick-headed and closed-minded, I asked myself. Mind you, I'm no huge fan of Linux, though I do have it running as my DNS servers. I prefer AIX, myself, including a smallish SP complex. Sun is OK. Digital (Compaq) Unix is adequate, though nothing special. HP-UX I know nothing about. We run BSDI on our firewalls. I followed some fellow's advice (posted in comp.unix.admin a couple of days ago) about downloading two diskette images and installing BSD over the net. Well, he had the URL wrong, but it was not difficult to find them at the www.freebsd.org website. I created the diskettes. I updated the firewall so I had internet access from the IP address I assigned the box I was installing. I booted the machine. It asked me a few questions about addressing and such. I looked at it about every 15 minutes. Sometimes it wanted answers to questions like "what additional software do you want to install?" This was the most time-consuming question because I didn't want everything. (Man, there's huge amounts of proggies available!) I answered them and went back to work. I config'ed X (KDE) with XF86Setup. A while later I rebooted. Shazzam! A UNIX box! This was the *easiest* UNIX I've ever installed. I didn't have to read any release notes, how-tos, or anything else. I am much impressed. I suspect you are a troll, Don, and not a true UNIX man, for your mindless intransigence against one of the two revered branches of UNIX could not come from a thinking man. I further suspect this is why you call yourself "Rev." Kool --- to be anti-reverent and to be inflammatory --- to cast fire but provide no light. You are not "kool" though you are a wet blanket. I understand now why you work for the government, for you would perish in a real-world, customer-driven environment. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Programming is an unnatural act. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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