Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Will H. Backman:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Shalayeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:59 AM
> > To: Will H. Backman
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: openbsd list fckery
> >
> > Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Will H. Backman:
> > > > About a week ago, I was trying to upgrade my dual boot laptop to
> 3.7.
> > > I
> > > > had to run the installer about 20 times to figure out my problem
> and
> > > > correct it. In the process, I learned more about fdisk and
> disklabel
> > > > than I had ever needed to before, and I count that as a good
> thing. It
> > > > took no more than about 5 minutes each time to run the installer
> from
> > > > scratch to completion in each case. Typing Ctrl-C and then
> "install"
> > > > when you make a mistake isn't that difficult.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > >
> > > I think the installer should be the last thing to go "user
> friendly".
> > > OpenBSD is not point and click. If you can figure out the
> installer, it
> > > means you actually read instructions. If you could install OpenBSD
> by
> > > just clicking "Next", you would be in for a rough ride after.
> >
> > actually 90% of the installer we have is just pushing "next".
> > everything has most common reasonable defaults.
> >
> > so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just
> > retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does
> > not help then perhaps should not use computers...
> >
>
> I never said it was hard for me. I read the instructions. I also read
> the afterboot man page.
it is addressed to the list as well so that may not necessarily
mean you in single but rather you in multitude of the list wankers (:
but since you actually took it upon self it's good.
maybe you do not need electricity treatment after all (:
cu
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paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
