'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.'
He praised the OpenBSD project and those responsible for it... because it's worth praising. Can't someone say something nice here without it being picked apart? I will end on a nice note (call it "Leading by Example")... I agree completely with Karl's comments... OpenBSD rocks. Ducking, 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'; misc@openbsd.org > 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: misc@openbsd.org > > 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.
