On Wednesday 21 November 2001 12:43, you wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:16:18AM -0600, Jeremy Shawley wrote: > > Can you give some reasons why you will be happy when they will be > > gone? I hope you can come up with something better than "It doesn't > > run linux". If you are going to say things like this, please make some > > justifications. > > Believe it or not, it's not that it doesn't run Linux that's my problem. > It's that wonderful oganically grown filesystem layout that IRIX seems > to love so dearly. Every system is different, but every time I log on > to an IRIX box, I get this queasy feeling that "something is wrong with > the force." > > > At anyrate, just have the decency to give some justification to your > > argument, as far as we know, you are just a really bad sysadmin and > > don't know how to admin the systems. > > You know. I don't really need to give you more reason that personal > preference. That's what's wonderful about operating systems and being > putting on the BOFH hat every once and a while. You are correct that > you can assume no more than you know from the comment, especially if you > reference no other emails to this list posted by yours truely. If you > want to assume that I'm a bad admin, then go ahead. If you want to > assume that I have lice, eat goldfish, and live under your bed, than I'm > your boogie-man. I apologize, I did not mean to insult you, I just hate unqualified statements. It's just nice to see some justification for why someone hates something. I just reminded me of the the old famous "Macintosh Sucks" statements. And when you would ask the question "Well, why does it suck". You get back answers like "because" and " it just does". No real meat to the content of why that particular thing was sucking. I am new to this newsgroup, so I have not seen many emails from you. I am sure you are a very qualified admin, and I was just caught on a bad day. Please accept my apologies and I meant no ill will by what I said. I do think that IRIX is a great OS for what it does, its not great all around and has it's short commings, but I would trust my data and important information to IRIX befor I would linux. Thats just my opinion. -Jeremy > > IMHO, IRIX is a pain in the ass, and I'll be happy when I no longer have > to deal with it. Qualifier for that statement, because I'm a BOFH.