From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 5 0:19:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB0CF37B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:19:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 32198 invoked by uid 204); 5 Aug 2001 07:19:28 -0000 Received: from cynic@mail.cz by k0r3.reflektor.cz with qmail-scanner-0.96 (. Clean. Processed in 0.504885 secs); 05 Aug 2001 07:19:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 07:19:27 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010805092731.02b5f8e8@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 09:28:37 +0200 To: "Nick Turner" , , From: Cynic Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers In-Reply-To: <000b01c11d7d$f054eea0$0200000a@nickswin2kbox> References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This one was actually a fine example of MS- and Linux-bashing. Pitty. At 09:12 8/5/2001, Nick Turner wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Well I have a few things to say in reply to your message. First of all >FreeBSD was never designed to be a game console for teenage kids to play >silly internet games on. You are quite obviously very new to the FreeBSD OS. >If you think that FreeBSD is buggy in comparison to Windows then a few >things come to my mind. A) you're a idiot that has no life and likes to play >Ashron's Call. B) Hasn't taken the time to notice that FreeBSD is running on >the worlds busiest web servers in the world including Hotmail [Which I might >add is owned now by Microsoft and yet STILL runs FreeBSD!! I guess they knew >their own OS couldn't handle it!!]Yahoo, Digital River, Geocities etc. As >for Unix software being buggy, well sometimes you get what you pay for... >But I can't tell you the number of times that I have bought a $50 piece of >software for Windows and have it screw up everything. (Yes I use Winblows >2KPro... but only as necessary. I am striving to become FreeBSD Wizard. Just >an Apprentice at the moment.) Never had that happen with FreeBSD. Now I >won't say that Windows is totally useless or insecure just mostly and >mostly. Looks pretty though.Unless you are running Win2K, NT, or XP it has >security holes in it big enough to drive a mining dump truck through. And >next you'll be telling me that you can run personal firewalls to help patch >Windows deficiencies. That is a little like sticking the bank guard in the >vault and expect him to do perimeter patrol. By the time the thief has broke >into the vault, it's a little late to arrest him. Whoopee, the guard >detected him. Too late... > >My own personal opinion... If you want to play games on Unix go play in the >Linux sandbox with the other kiddies. (Good luck trying to figure out which >one of the six billion releases is going to work for you though.) cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message