2003 October 12, Chris Ridd, “Re: OSX Family Pack”, in uk.comp.sys.mac[1] (Usenet):
Go for FreeBSD. Solaris x86 is bargepoleware - it has extremely limited support for PC hardware (ie graphics cards, network cards).
2004 June 3, Chris Ridd, “Re: Jokes turning into mainstream terms”, in uk.comp.sys.mac[2] (Usenet):
There's vampireware (sucks the life out of the engineers working on it) and then there's bargepoleware..
2006 March 19, KeithS, “Re: Healthy Bindging anyone?????”, in uk.food+drink.real-ale[3] (Usenet):
> Can you be certain > that "MSTAIA" is a commercial organisation? The poor spelling suggests > to me that it's not. > > I suppose you could nick them for not putting "COMMERCIAL" or "FS" in > the subject line, but it's hardly a hanging offence.
Joyce, if you're happy to send them $15, then fine. Personally, i'd[sic]treat the whole thing as bargepoleware.
