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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Reasonably good video card supported by FreeBSD
Date: 25 Jun 1996 22:25:15 -0500
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Bill Woodford (wwoodf1@umbc.edu) wrote:
: Ive been reading this newsgroup for just about a day now, and I
: was wondering if someone could tell me who aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com is why
: he has an negative opinion about BSD. Did he have some bad childhood
: experience... I used Linux for about 6 months before I used FreeBSD. I,
: quite frankly, think FreeBSD is much easier to install and use than Linux.
: In addition to that, we are about to replace 3 of our production machines
: with pentiums running freeBSD. I personally think it's nice. Sorry for
: posting non-relevant material to the newsgroup.
It's relevant, just should have had it's own subject line.
He appeared for a couple of days, tried (quite successfully) to provoke
some flames, and disappeared up his own arse.
It's interresting that he could upset so many people - almost impressive.
I suspect my recent posted "suspicion" was correct - he was provoking
flames for a bet.
When I originally got on the net ('92 some time) I picked up on a
competition in the "demon.local" newsgroup. It's embarassing - Demon
in the UK is about as widespread as AOL in the US, and about as smart.
Some genius posted an article inviting people to gather flames - see
who could provoke the biggest thread. Threads of up to about 80 articles
resulted. I watched, and was way too new to participate - just as well,
'cos it never occurred to me that it really would upset people.
Ignorance....
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....