Re: USB Camera problems in Slackware 9.0, kernel 2.4.23

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:54:27 -0500

<rlm@bcda.bcda.com> wrote in message
news:NOiHb.16745$d%1.3784057@news20.bellglobal.com...

> > 3. Since *Lew* Pitcher was the OP, his opinion of your utterly
> > useless response seems relevant
>
> Our original response was hardly useless. Using windows in his
> situation is the best option. Whether Mr. Pitcher, or you, want to
> hear that or not hardly changes the fact that his new computer's
> video card will work with windows even though it won't work with
> linux. And since there is little, if anything, that linux can do
> that windows cannot do, he can put that new computer to work after
> a 20 minute windows install. And that's assuming it didn't come
> with windows pre-installed.

??? Let's see. Secure file service faster than Windows with Samba, DNS,
multiple simultaneous users, decently secure mail service, decent remote and
fully featured graphical clients, secure HTTP and FTP file service for
transferring those generated images to your clients, graceful software
updates, no DLL-hell, ghostscript built in for processing print jobs, better
print-handlinig than Windows, not having to be the local administrator to
use the scanner tools.

Not a single thing that Linux does better? Dude, what rock have you been
flagging your wagon under?

> > For those in comp.os.linux.* who may not know rm (if you do, my
> > condolences) he is our resident anti-pgp troll in aols.
>
> I am not a troll. You don't call somebody a "troll" because you
> don't agree with them. As for being "anti-pgp", the unwarranted
> use of inline pgp in a newsgroup violates usenet standards of
> netiquette and is just plain stupid, not to mention annoying.

Bull***. It's been a reasonable .sig behavior since the $cientologists
started forging posts from their critics and trying to use them in court to
discredit them. If you want to make sure someone doesn't forge your name or
take your stuff out of context, it's an extremely reasonable bit of tagline.

> Your posting was designed simply to insult me. I wouldn't be
> calling anyone else a "troll" if I were you. But then again, I am
> not you, thank gawd.

Definite troll. *plonk*.

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