Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-13 Thread Henry Sieff
On 4/13/07, stuart van Zee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] The way MS has worked to make things easier and easier with all the wizzards etc (crap) it's getting so that fine grained control is all but gone and if the wizz can't do it, it can't be done. That's the real problem with GUI config

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-13 Thread bofh
On 4/13/07, stuart van Zee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > line config (ok, hell could freeze over). The way MS has worked to > make things easier and easier with all the wizzards etc (crap) it's To quote my favorite muse: "Wizards...? Pffft"

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-13 Thread stuart van Zee
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Jordan Klein > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-12 Thread Jordan Klein
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tim > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD > > > I've noticed that to a lot of techies have thi

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-12 Thread Tim
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:48:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: Obiozor Okeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD > To: Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I try to explain to my Linux friends just how > great a system OpenBSD

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-12 Thread Obiozor Okeke
Yes sir! I have had similar experiences with OpenBSD since 3.0 (loss of power, hack attempts, abuse, etc) and I've got an OpenBSD machine running my qmail server since '99 !! I try to explain to my Linux friends just how great a system OpenBSD really is and some people just don't get it!

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:08:09AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Now, besides the work I do with BSD, sometimes I work with GNU/Linux > as well. I had to mess a bit with a Debian box, and while it was open > I noticed that I had switched the primary and secondary IDE cabels. It > doesn't matter ofc

My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-11 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all. "Funny" story.. At home I installed OpenBSD on some old i386 hardware years ago. Since I do a lot of work at home I have a small homenetwork. From time to time I upgrade hardware, and sometimes I change the disks as well, when I get some bigger ones. Anyway, my old OpenBSD installation