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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.iag.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!cunews!not-for-mail From: shaver@neon.ingenia.com (Mike Shaver) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 16 Jul 1996 17:53:54 GMT Organization: Slacker Software Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4sgkvi$6dk@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4s7jsd$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sej3e$155@dworkin.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neon.ingenia.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45434 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23751 Chuck Cranor (chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu) wrote: : Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: : >"A mind is a terrible thing to waste." I felt then, and feel now, that : >working on *BSD is basically a waste of time. : : If people are having fun and enjoying working on a project (be it BSD, : Linux, or whatever) who are you to judge? That is an extremely arrogant : position for you to take. Hello? Thinking something is a waste of time is _arrogant_? Either you're a bloody _saint_, or you didn't think before you wrote that. I think watching `Beavis and Butthead' is a waste of time. I think my high school physics class was a waste of time. I think programming for DOS 1.0 is a waste of time. Mike (arrogance abounds) -- #> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation <# #> Paranoid for money. Sarcastic for kicks. <# #> <# #> "They already *KNOW* I am a whacko, Karen. <# #> That doesn't mean I am *WRONG*." -- mjr@clark.net <#