Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:13:29 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no, tlambert@primenet.com, jkb@best.com, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, thallgren@yahoo.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Message-ID: <199902111013.FAA03804@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199902101645.JAA10289@usr07.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 10, 99 04:45:57 pm"
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Terry Lambert said: > > > Er, uh, I meant slashdot.org. > > > > Slashdot is a Linux box, according to queso: > > > > root@flood ~# /usr/local/sbin/queso www.slashdot.org > > 206.170.14.75:80 * Standard: Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.1.???, MacOS > > > > Solaris and MacOS don't sound very likely, which leaves us with Linux. > > I was petulantly defending the honor and widespread use of Linux, > as counter examples to the "FreeBSD runs Yahoo" claim. Only my > first two counter examples didn't work. ;-). > > Jokes just aren't as funny, if you have to explain them... > Easy to misunderstand them, especially when emotions run high. I remember one time that I told Linus that I wasn't going to hack FreeBSD to make it benchmark faster, and he interpreted it as being that I said that Linux had been hacked to make it benchmark faster. My language was unambiguous, but apparently there was a presumption that what I said wasn't what I meant. Written communication is sometimes difficult, when either the recipient cannot read (like in the above case), or when the sender tries to be humorous (and that has happened to me also.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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