From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 18:37:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3C816A420 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:37:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2846343D69 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:37:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 57381 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2006 18:37:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pres1750.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@68.248.238.36 with plain) by smtp112.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2006 18:37:18 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:37:10 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060221140925.84974.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200602211047.24449.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.0.16.2.20060221124410.0502eb60@msdi.ca> In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060221124410.0502eb60@msdi.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602211237.10776.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Lord Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:37:24 -0000 On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:46, Ian Lord wrote: > > Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't > figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the > assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile > and configure apcupsd :) > What can I say. There are people like that. You read what they say and feel there's something wrong, something doesn't ring true. They haven't done something, they don't know about something, etc. I think it can be said: "I know enough from what you've said to be dangerous." I think I should say instead: "Sure I can help you, but if you didn't know enough to tell me everything I needed to know, my advice may possibly melt your cpu, warp your harddrive, remove your ram, and if that isn't enough, install an unremovable bios from 1975." The OP hasn't said anything back yet, which leads me to wonder: did he go to sleep, is he paying attention, is he now too embarrassed to say anything, or is he stuck trying to see whats on the APC unit and he put it in a place that's hard to see. Don