From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 22:18:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34FA937B41B for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21768 invoked by uid 100); 8 Dec 2001 06:18:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15377.45255.263953.141925@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:18:47 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. In-Reply-To: <016801c17faf$6a977640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15377.37214.213789.306335@guru.mired.org> <00c901c17f9f$e80a95e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011208043931.GA27716@hades.hell.gr> <00fd01c17fa9$ccf20c20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011208053552.GC28300@hades.hell.gr> <013201c17fab$fc6e3260$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.44640.194488.100103@guru.mired.org> <016801c17faf$6a977640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Anthony Atkielski types: > Mike writes: > > So what do you call the personal computing > > environment used by an IT specialist in her > > home or office? > I don't have a generic name for it. I'm not sure that there is much in > common among specialists with respect to their home and office computing > environments. In that case, you should quit preaching at specialists about what they do. > > You obviously give people more credit than > > they deserve. > No, I am trying to illustrate an abstract concept in an understandable way, > without much success, apparently. The reason for your lack of success is obvious - you're trying to illustrate a falsehood. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message