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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!wa.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 7 Apr 1997 21:58:30 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 27 Message-ID: <slrn5kirg2.8v.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <3347ce19.0@news.intercenter.net> <5i9h5g$et4@lace.colorado.edu> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1-port14.isys.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19976 comp.os.linux.misc:168711 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38731 In article <5i9h5g$et4@lace.colorado.edu>, Frank Crary wrote: >I disagree. There are degrees of understanding. For example, I couldn't >fix a serious hardware problem on my motherboard, but I know enough >about it to diagnose the problem. I can't think of anything I own >or use that I'm totally clueless about. I'm not an expert on any >of them, And there's the key - being able to figure out at least the basics of a thing's operation helps immensely in using it effectively and keeping it maintained. My alleged automobile runs only because I know why and how. Most others in my circumstance would have a dead pile of metal by now. People are just getting lazy, in my opinion. A few decades ago, most who drove a vehicle could make at least a temporary fix when it broke down. Today, most can't (or won't) even check the oil level. As it goes with cars, it goes with home appliances and computing equipment. It is a disposable culture. Not encouraging. >but I don't think there are little gnomes running around inside >my CPU, either. For all a Windows 95 user sees of the system, they >might as well believe in gnomes... The gnomes getting malicious or >going on strike would certainly explain alot of things... Well, if the gnomes running around in my cpus were forced to run MS Windows on a regular basis, I'd not blame them for going on strike over working conditions ;)