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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!news.psc.edu!not-for-mail From: peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 14 Apr 1997 10:45:40 -0400 Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5itfuk$4o3@hoopoe.psc.edu> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hoopoe.psc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20165 comp.os.linux.misc:169693 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39060 In article <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu>, Marat Fayzullin <marat@Glue.umd.edu> wrote: >Tim Smith (tzs@halcyon.com) wrote: >: Do you apply this same standard to all tools? For instance, should people >: need to understand something about how petroleum is refined before they >: put gas in their cars? Should one need to know thermodynamics in order >: to make one's refrigerator get colder? Should one be conversant in rim >: flushes and siphon jets before one flushes one's toilet? >Yes to all questions above, including the toilet flushing. An *educated* >human being must be aware of these things, or at least of some of them. Wow. Your toilet training period must have been truly psychotic. -- Pete Berger, Esq. Coordinator, Regional Information Infrastructure Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center peterb@psc.edu http://www.psc.edu/~peterb I don't speak for my employers, nor they for me.