Re: Given Up on Linux - not yet :)

From: Walter Mautner (nextnews.15.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:32:52 +0200

Mike Bothwell wrote:

...
> No, YOU ASSUMED I neither had or gave a clue about what I was running.

Now I just jumped on the thread when I felt it's time for a funny little
flamewar once in a while :). *I* didn't assume anything, after all. Just
interpreted your initial posting and the responses (and also saw you
mentioning the other boxen).

> Linux 7. Excuse the incomplete description, but I started the post with
> "I'm a newbie to Linux" and the responses to my incomplete description
> were at best immature. The helpful response would have been, "Can you

Oh. Somehow it's like a big post "NEWBIE DRIVER" on a car. Almost everyone
will cut you, try to overtake you and abruptly jump on the brakes
afterwards 2 meters in front of you. Especially if you are driving with a
hat on your head too.
Consider there is no closed season for newbies!

> clarify Linux 7. Which version/Developer". And your "will not boot is
> just lame" is no better. It's a childish response. I don't believe
> there is anyone here who would respond to this post to my face in person
> with any of the remarks, especially if they were in business. The way I

"Business" is another task. You should probably peek into
alt.tech-support.recovery to get a clue. Again, here noone gets paid for
support and therefore NO CLOSED SEASON FOR NEWBIES!

> se it is you guys are experts and we come here for help, not immature
> responses. I've been in technical sales a long time and my job is to
> let the customer vent and not respond with "LAME" responses like you
> people give. Over sensitive is an understatement and missing a couple
> of other adjectives.
>
You got it. Actually our intention is to tar and feather you, shoot you in
your foot and finally quarter you. But you already have shot yourself in
the knee, robbing us half the pleasure. Except you stay here voluntarily
for the quartering.

>> Technical newsgroups are not made for "group cuddling" :).
...
>
> And that is the problem. Engineers are generally more concerned with
> appearing to be intelligent and spend more time trying to convince

Yeah. So *you* are intelligent, and we only try to appear as if we were.

> people of that instead of actually asking questions and trying to help
> people. And don't even try the "group coddling" comment. Look at the
> questions from the newbies on this group and see if there is no
> coddling. The problem here was my question was above most of the people
> who bothered to respond to this. There was only one person who really

Of course, maybe you tried to ask a quiz question and to fool us, you
disguiesd it as the most stupid newbie question "Linux 7" with a typical
troll suffix "Linux sucks" and we were not intelligent enough to jump
across our borders, and just answered it like we perceived it.

...
> expected...no help at all. Your arrogance hinders your ability to be
> humble and help those who need it, newbie or not.
>
Again, here noone gets paid for being humble. No closed season, boy! 

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