Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Mar 26 15:26:06 PST 2005


owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> Colin J. Raven writes:
> 
>> How much time have you lost _just_ within the context of this thread
>> alone?
> 
> Not very much, although it was virtually a total waste.
>

Actually it was a waste to you because you don't want to try anything,
but it wasn't a waste to others on the list.  Anyone wanting to run
FreeBSD on an old Vectra they have around if they search the list
archives they are going to come across this thread, and be educated.
 
> 
> Most have spent a lot of bandwidth on ad hominem (see your own post
> for an example), and virtually none on constructive suggestions. And
> of those who offered relatively constructive suggestions, most were
> pure conjecture, often influenced by some sort of bias.
> 

When trying to troubleshoot a problem you make a conjecture as to
what the problem might be then you test for it.  So of course, any
constructive suggestion is going to be conjecture.

Ted


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