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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:39:04 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Summoner <summoner@uswest.net>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why We Should All Use Microsoft Software
Message-ID:  <19990724103904.C20171@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231207410.27060-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>; from Doug on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:13:40PM -0700
References:  <000401bed53b$3685fcd0$021d85d1@youwant.to> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907231207410.27060-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>

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* Doug (Doug@gorean.org) [990723 21:36]:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> > 	Some people actually think that computers just "crash all the time",
> > period.
> 
> 	I also read a very interesting article on the impending doom in
> the japanese macro economy. One of the very senior banking executives that
> they interviewed said that part of the problem is that the current crop of
> "young" (by japanese standards) executives have learned disturbing habits
> from there experiences with computers and video games. I can't do justice
> to the quote, but it was something to the effect that they have learned
> that when things crash, all you have to do is hit the reset button. In
> context it was quite chilling.

*sigh*

That reminds me of our systemadministrators, they administered AIX boxen
and they would always solve problems by resetting the box, without even
paying attention to the mounted volumes.

And then they bitch when the HD's are failing... Fscking lamers...

Btw, I have been using Windows 95 a lot at work to write *bwerk* Word
documents and experienced a lot of crashes. So when I left my FreeBSD
box for 2 weeks to automatically fetch my mail during my vacation, I was
happily surprised to find the thing still running happily when I returned.
Lesson: FreeBSD and other Unices are NOT like Windows... Hell a crash is
something worth investigating under Unix while under Windows it's ehm, more,
ehm, natural?

[ How could've I ever doubt FreeBSD in the first place? ]

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                          asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...?


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