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#! rnews 3196 bsd 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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.171.6.16!li.net!usenet From: "Nikita" <from: imennov@juno.com> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 26 Apr 1997 17:50:34 GMT Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network) Lines: 49 Message-ID: <01bc517d$9cac2320$730e10ac@2766> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <33530DFA.71D6@poboxes.com> Reply-To: "Nikita" <reply to: Imennov@juno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: frame172.suffolk.lib.ny.us X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20613 comp.os.linux.misc:172130 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39773 I think this is a discussion between (don't get it literally) professional, and a user. Professional is called professional 'cause it knows how things are done, and user just uses utensils. Neither side is bad. And about this toilet thingy, I think it is stupid to pay money for fixing a running toilet ($100 ?) when this problem can be eliminated by a simple procedure, where no special skill is needed. (Same with computers, O.K., nobody expects everyone to know how to recompile a kernel, but, 'cmon, YOU GOTTA LEARN HOW TO TURN YOUR COMPUTER ON!!!) Nikita. Kyle D. Hodgson <KyleHodgson@poboxes.com> wrote in article <33530DFA.71D6@poboxes.com>... > Tim Smith wrote: > > > > In article <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net>, Zep <zep@kashmir.net> wrote: > > >Yes, but you're making it sound like that's a good thing! Maybe people > > >that take things like that for granted shouldn't have one in the first > > >place. I agree with you that MS did a great job at gearing themselves > > >toward the average user, but I don't think that people _should_ take > > >their OS for granted. In my opinion, it's a good thing that setting > > >up misc. stuff in UNIX can be somewhat complicated. If you don't > > >already, maybe it will make you stop and think about how your 'puter > > >works. And that can be a really enlightening experience. Think > > >about it. > > > > 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? > > > > --Tim Smith > well, I kind of like to think about those things. I don't go to > university to study them, or spend long hours in a library. But I *do* > tend to think aout thermodynamics when I open a fridge. Is MSwin going > the way of the mac? "How's it work?" [reply:]"Don't ask, don't tell!" > Not to insult mac. I kinda liked the win95=mac84 joke...:) > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Kyle D. Hodgson > mailto:KyleHodgson@poboxes.com >