Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:00:36 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED! Message-ID: <20000717220036.B240@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007161820480.6234-100000@q.closedsrc.org>; from lplist@q.closedsrc.org on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:21:08PM -0700 References: <20000716232718.C75200@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007161820480.6234-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:21:08PM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > > Or would that be Larry Ellison or Scott McNealy? :) > :) Just to change the subject slightly, I've just been watching a TV program about some work being done in the US (the PATH project) on road safety which includes some special lanes on a San Diego freeway where they had a line of cars linked together by a comms system that were driving along about a car's length apart at 60mph. The presenter asked one of the engineers what they were doing to deal with potential computer failures, to which the engineer replied: "...as anyone who has a PC on their desk knows, the number of times their Microsoft operating system crashes shows that is a real problem we have to try and overcome" Guess they've never heard of FreeBSD :) > // Linh Pham > // > // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD > // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org > // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org > > /* "Oregon, n.: > Eighty billion gallons of water > with no place to go on > Saturday night." > */ > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:50:18AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:29:30PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > >> At 04:19 PM 7/15/2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > >> >> >Umm. What ways less than a duck? :) > > >> >> > > >> >> Why a duck? ;-) > > >> > > > >> >Why a fence? > > >> > > >> I don't know; the fence was mysteriously stolen. > > >> > > >> And I can't figure out why anyone would take a fence. > > > > > > In a world without fences, there's no need for Gates. > > > > So, it was a penguin that stole the fence. *duck* > > > > -- > > Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > > > Public PGP key at: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr > > > -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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