Re: Forget Hardy

Hey list,
Can't this thread be dropped once and for all. I see
no useful purpose to it. Besides, I've spend a half
morning just deleting the "Forget Hardy" after reading
a few and discovering is it just all rant and getting
corporal tunnel syndrome in the process. I see
nothing new, useful or that I haven't seen many times
before from reading the list. Yes, I'm also getting
tired of seeing all the criticism of Karl Larsen
regarding some of his posts. It would be simpler to
just comment on the correct method/solution and not be
so critical of him, regardless of how you feel. It
would make me very obstinate if I were criticized in
that manner. And yes, most of the top gurus are
guilty of all this rant. Not the way to make a good
useful Users List.
My $0.02.


--- Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mwbesemer@xxxxxxx wrote:

When I first started experimenting with
Ubuntu/Linux, I expected to find a
community that was full of knowledge and ready to
help. I'm sorry to say
that what I've experienced has not been at all
like that. Mario's
comments below seem all too typical.

Mario's comments are only typical of our response to
a person who has been
continually giving out completely erroneous, often
stupid, advice on this
list, and complaining about the _good_ advice he has
received. Mario gives
good advice (which I often disagree with, but that's
Linux!).

Regarding security updates, those touting the
Linux Kernal are always
quick to point out that Linux is unlike Windows in
that it does not have
security concerns as Windows does,

Who ever said that? Please provide citations,
because it's not true, never
has been true, and isn't something I've ever seen.
People are quick to
point out that Linux security concerns are addressed
promptly and
publicly - unlike Windows' - but that's not the same
thing at all.

then those of us to are brave enough to
give it a try quickly find out differently.

What? You tried a new kernel and found a serious
security issue? I'm
shocked (not to mention sceptical).

This (and other Ubuntu lists) _is_ "a community ...
full of knowledge and
ready to help", but those who bite the hand that
feeds tend to get less
help, and we expect people to try to help
themselves. If you posted with a
subject of "pls hlp", or "HELP", probably with lots
of exclamations, you
probably never got a response (likely, nobody even
read your post). If you
gave an informative subject, but then - as in the
last message I responded
to - said "my Toshiba Satellite can't connect to the
Internet", without a
hint of a problem description, most people would
just say they don't have
the time to drag the problem out of you. And if
you're given everything
you need to google the answer for yourself, and
complain, you get
killfiled.
--
derek


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