[MLB-WIRELESS] Who Gives a S**T About Which OS?????
Nath
nathp at optushome.com.au
Wed Jul 10 20:06:31 EST 2002
good to see some focus on the list somewhere.. pity everyone else cant
focus.. get over it peoples...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant McHerron" <grant at taoceti.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:15 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Who Gives a S**T About Which OS?????
>
> Oh come on you lot - I didn't join this bloody mailing list for YAOSBW
(Yet
> Another Operating System Bigot War) - that's what I read Slashdot for :)
>
> Whether I use Unix, *BSD, Linux (in whatever flavour), Mac, Windoze, Palm
> or an abacus should be immaterial unless you're giving me concrete
> information that will help me avoid/resolve issues associated with setting
> up/running a wireless cloud (and no, telling me to wipe my machine and
> start again with a "real" O/S does not go down well at all, I can assure
you :)
>
> I've been going through the whole damned "My OS makes my dick bigger than
> yours!" bullshit longer than I care to remember and it doesn't help any of
> us get through our day's work.
>
> For what it's worth - I've made stacks of $$$ from fixing defects in ALL
of
> the operating systems I've ever had the joy of encountering because they
> are all INHERENTLY BROKEN!!!! I've yet to encounter a system that's
> perfect, best for me, intuitive, etc etc etc (the list includes Mac,
> Windoze, *nix, OS/2, etc) I use whichever one suits the
> client/purpose/budget/is_nearest_to_me and then do what I can to prevent
> the (l)users from buggering it up :)
>
> So, the upshot is that tongue in cheek, humourous, whatever - I don't give
> a flying F***K which one you love, use or tug-off to while in bed at night
> (so long as it can display net-pr0n, it's OK, right? :) I do care about
how
> to plug security holes, configure cards/routers and mesh clouds...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Grant
>
> PS Sorry, just annoyed at having to wade through all this crap to find a
> couple of interesting emails PLUS find the non-MelbourneWireless ones that
> are important for me to address ASAP - keep this up and MelbourneWireless
> emails will get consigned to the "I'll read it one day" bucket...
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Grant McHerron
> Tao Ceti Pty Ltd
>
> Level 1, 530 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
> Ph: +61 3 9909 7067 Fax: +61 3 9228 3257
> http://www.taoceti.com.au grant at taoceti.com.au
>
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