Most long term OpenBSD users know of THEOS. The reason is simple; the
scumbag company behind that OS tried to use reverse domain hijacking
(i.e. a bogus dispute claim) to steal the THEOS.COM domain name from
it's owner, namely Theo de Raadt.
Here's the goss:
http://theos.com/dispute.html
-Original Message-
From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:list-...@designtools.org]
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:58 PM
To: Brian Shackelford
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: OT: Old School Unix vs. Modern Day Support Professionals
- was (Defending OpenBSD Performance)
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:27
Fact of the matter is that I have
become convinced that those that know how to actually TROUBLESHOOT
problems are in the very small minority in this industry.
I think this is really the crux of the matter, I find the ability
to troubleshoot multi-vendor complexity is getting to be a rare
-Original Message-
From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of openbsd misc
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:27 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: OT: Old School Unix vs. Modern Day Support Professionals
- was (Defending OpenBSD Performance)
Fact
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com
wrote:
Oh yes, M$ were very much against that, even when it was the only
solution and the one suggested in their knowledge base! This is good
reading that goes through the horrors of such things, as well as their
training
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:27:47 -0400 Brian Shackelford
bshackelf...@dns-net.com wrote:
Old School Unix = People that KNOW what they are doing. I work with
Macs, PC's, Windows, Novell, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, Windows, DOS (Yes
some customers still use this), THEOS (anyone else heard of that
That is my $1.87 worth - flame me - stone me - whatever if you must -
but again it is just one man's opinion.
Don't be sorry, that's one of the better and more literate rants I've seen
on misc@ in a while.
+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
:-)
Brian Shackelford escribis:
Correction, a professional OS that requires its users to be
professionals. Not a bunch of whining windows update people that
have to call IT to launch excel. In case you hadn't noticed we
are old school UNIX users that don't mind fixing
Sorry Brian to sort of hijack this new thread; until late last night
I had no time to follow the original one and you don't attribute
your opponent.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:27 -0400, Brian Shackelford wrote:
Correction, a professional OS that requires its users to be
professionals. Not
First, thank you for a very enlightening rant - the best I've seen
since I joined the list.
*reaches for toilet paper to blow nose*
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Brian Shackelford
bshackelf...@dns-net.com wrote:
[snip]
You know it is interesting - having been in this industry for over 16
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