> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:34 PM > To: Gabe; Der Engel; [email protected] > Subject: RE: OBSD: OS Of The Rad > > 'Hard to say'? That response means 'No, I didn't miss his > point, I just > want to be a hard-ass and then not really address it.' >
I'm not avoiding the issue of ridiculous hyperbole or opensource project skepticism. > He praised the OpenBSD project and those responsible for it... because > it's worth praising. > Riiiiiiiiiight. About both parts. > Can't someone say something nice here without it being picked apart? > The converse: Can something be picked apart even though it is not nice? The Nile isn't just a river in Egypt. > > I will end on a nice note (call it "Leading by Example")... I agree > completely with Karl's comments... OpenBSD rocks. > Werd. > Ducking, > Word. > Dan Farrell > Applied Innovations > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > > Gabe > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:37 AM > > To: 'Der Engel'; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: OBSD: OS Of The Rad > > > > Hard to say. His message had a few different themes in it. > > He spoke about his dedication to the binary machine arts, but then > > confessed > > to using an expensive machine as a "door stop"? > > > > And, he praises the use he's gotten from OBSD and the list, but then > > jinxes > > it by questioning its direction and bringing up the issue of its > > lifecycle. > > > > I just wanted to bring up the issue of idle time versus cpu time. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of Der Engel > > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:31 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: OBSD: OS Of The Rad > > > > > > Umnada, > > > > > > Did you get his point? > > > > > > On 1/4/07, Umnada Tyrolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I came here to compute, to help inanimate machines do so, > > > well. -this > > > > > list, more than any other resource (including my old favorite > > > > > google.com/bsd) got me where I was going. The OS -how > > > long will it > > > > > last? I hope forever. But nothing lasts forever. I do > > > have an old > > > > > host that's been up for 1,248 days without reboot, i'm > > > sure there are > > > > > those on this list with longer. > > > > > > > > First of all, not everyone likes to share how long, but > > > thanks. Secondly, I > > > > think it's not the duration of up-time but rather cpu usage > > > time which says > > > > what kind of machine you have. > > > > > > > > You know what I mean? CPU usage (on a user machine, not > > > some bragbox) says > > > > what kind of software and hardware stresses have been > > > going. I've got over > > > > 5,961,600 seconds of cpu usage on this machine. And it's not all > pf, > > > > spamassassin and mplayer. Not all.
