On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Paulm <pa...@tetrardus.net> wrote: >> Dynamic content & proper search would also put an end to "just wade through marc.info" fuck-offs and self-righteous RTFD when one has to "egrep -Rli serial /usr/share/man", say. Man/info pages are the ultimate /reference/, they're not meant to solve high-level problems. The FAQs are really are no FAQs at all but a gigantic snowball with floppy install instructions crucially leaving out 5 1/4" and 8" media. > > I don't understand why the floppy install option gets you so riled up. > I happen to have a couple of IBM Thinkpads from the early 2000's, > which still work quite well with the exception of unreliable cdrom > drives. So I like knowing the floppy option is there. >
because ftp(1) source reads like porky pig trying to tell you about a handy tcp stream transfer protocol, only that his characteristic stutter is replaced with "#ifndef SMALL"
