Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 13:45:46 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, hsu@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603141945.NAA22351@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603141818.LAA11399@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 14, 96 11:18:24 am
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> > > > There are over a hundred pages in the perl 5 man pages split out > > > > over 27 sections. I believe free, printable, and searchable on-line > > > > man pages qualifies as easily accessible documentation. > > > > > > This may shock you, but I don't own a printer (I probably personally > > > own more computers than 95% of the people on the list, if they don't > > > count their video equipment, ovens, or bread machines. 8-)). > > > > Well just how many would that be? Working off my last resource allocation > > chart, I've got... hm. 7 routers.. 6 servers.. 3 term servers.. 12 general > > purpose.. probably others.. that's something like 28. > > You include routers? Sure, they run FreeBSD and they are simply ordinary computers with some specialized hardware and a customized kernel. ;-) > Well, you're an ISP; most of us aren't. Sorta true (technically I'm not an ISP but at a quick glance I could resemble one, but I do own all the equipment personally). ;-) > Including my loaners, I have around 18. Oooops. Loaners. Um. I need to revise my count. And I forgot my laptop too. > > Ok, I admit, I counted some of my Suns that aren't in service and two PC > > motherboards that are "in assembly" :-) Most of the machines run FreeBSD. > > I noticed that there wer no printers on your list. I try to be a "paperless disaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoffice" type of guy... I do own a laser and a couple DMP's, but the laser has been "on loan" for eternity and I've never had a real good reason to hook up the dot matrix jobs. I wouldn't count specialized "embedded processor" equipment anyways... and come to think of it I failed to count all the old Commodore stuff I have buried away in storage. > 8-) 8-) 8-). Ditoo. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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