Brian Chase skrev:
>On 30 Apr 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> Kelly Fergason skrev:
>> > So, how do you get to "your disks" without going through the OS?
>>
>> Through the OS, but that doesn't mean that the OS in itself should
>> ever touch my disks.
>This thread has kind of degraded into something relatively nonsensical.
>The primary lesson to be learned here is that all actions have
>consequences. So as long as you're prepared to accept the consequences
>(and hopefully not harm anyone in the process), it's not really a problem.
Consequences? I just pretend that there aren't any.
>Iggy, I'd imagine that if the stakes get a little higher at some point in
>the future, and if you stick with UNIX as an operating system, you'll
>change your practices a bit and live with the burdensome inconvenience of
>typing in the `shutdown' command.
I accept UNIX as long as I don't have to be too direct with it. It has got its
good points, but really is at its best stuffed away into a cooled, UPS-
equipped cabinet, or at least in a dark corner where I don't have to encounter
it.
>ObClassiccmp: Especially if you're running older UNIX operating systems
>on classic hardware. :-)
Well, I can accept some quirks in old hardware and software, but now it's year
2001, and computers should get out of their 70's "sync sync sync" rut.
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Received on Tue May 01 2001 - 16:43:17 BST