Theo de Raadt wrote:
On 2013-10-30, Aaron Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
Is the fan functioning? If so, have you tried opening up the laptop
and re-applying thermal grease to the CPU? If the laptop has a few
years under its belt, the old grease could have perished.
While this might give the machine a bit more life, a laptop old enough
to have suffered this is not the most ideal of machines to be used for ports
development work which frequently involves building fairly large pieces of
software.
It's all well and nice to try to recommend that a developer who
works on many of the ports you use -- go fix his fan...
But really, those of you are telling him that are MISSING THE POINT
ENTIRELY.
<sarcasm>
Oh no we get the point the dev is just a freeloader looking for a hand
out of some free hardware. Where the rest of us have to work hard and
pay for all the hardware and .... software ..... we get ....
<irony>
Right 'cause we pay good money for the BSD software we run our
businesses on not to mention the expensive support contracts required.
</irony>
<sarcasm>
Oh time to help is it?
Where to send the cheque?
--
IS-IS sleeps.
BGP peers are quiet.
Something must be wrong.
