From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil White To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So What is P9 good for..... Message-ID: <20030214210406.GA5203@littlegreenmen.armory.com> References: <200302141945.h1EJjIM00898@augusta.math.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302141945.h1EJjIM00898@augusta.math.psu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:04:06 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 60aa3d7a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:45:17PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > > http://open-forge.org > > For a good time, call.... I'll double the silent part of that. Nothing from Opera or Lynx under Linux. > > I fully agree with his point. Commercial and social 'inertia' are -bad-. Jim: So much for building to last? The COBOL bit was in reference to old COBOL code still in use in 2000 which 'needed' to be updated lest the sky fall. > For crying out loud, this guy has had his say, but hasn't produced > a single thing. Can't we boot him off the mailing list now? Comic > relief aside, his inanities are stale. Even Bushnell was better; at > least he had technical knowledge. Dan: I don't know what your history is with Jim, suffice it to say longer than I've been on the list (6 months perhaps?). In any case, the last I checked, he is apparently a fan of plan 9. So the bit about booting him from the list is kinda self-defeating. Besides, it's nice to hear that another plan 9 network apart from the one at the Armory exists. -Phil/CERisE