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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4221 alt.folklore.computers:68419 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: BSD sluggish compared to Linux? Followup-To: poster Date: 22 Nov 1994 05:58:18 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3as19q$mkk@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3am248$7kv@itu1.sun.ac.za> <3aqcso$3rn@itu1.sun.ac.za> <3aqe21$lgl@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <3aqeap$4ki@itu1.sun.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Summary: I'm sick of this Keywords: newbies idiots lazy whining bastards In article <3aqeap$4ki@itu1.sun.ac.za>, Antony Richfield <arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za> wrote: > >A Public Relations Officer? Yes, that's me. However, even I have my limits. If you had truly and sincerely wanted to know the differences between the three OS's, you'd have grabbed them (especially given that all of them are LOCAL to your own institution, as has since been pointed out) and figured it out for yourself. However, like so many people these days, you didn't want to invest the effort, so you squalled louder and louder like a hungry baby (or more likely one in a soiled diaper) until someone came along and stuck a spoon in your mouth. Sorry, but you exemplify everything that's wrong with the net now. Thousands upon thousands of newbies who have ample access to clues, but would much rather have someone spoon feed it to them than invest any reasonable amount of work in INVESTIGATING such things for themselves! For god sakes, we were all newbies once, but most of the ones I grew up with also WORKED for their knowledge, and we didn't have any of these wonderful all-source-provided things available either! We had to wrest every bit of knowledge away from the operating system by brute force, often staring through inches of octal dump printout looking for clues when such was necessary. I'm not suggesting a return to the "good old days", or trying to revisit the Monty Python sketch where the old men talk about how hard it was when they were growing up, but for god's sake, you've got it so bloody easy now it's not even funny and you can't even be bothered to get out of your chair. Sorry, my sympathy for you is absolutely non-existant, and if you think we who provide the software have the free time to wipe your ass for you then you're sadly mistaken. We'd much rather deal with people who are at least willing to meet us half-way. You've paid no money for our services and have no right to expect more than that. Jordan