On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 03:08:37PM +0530, Subash typed:
> and i could tell suresh to go read so-and-so's critique of
> Tolkien that exposes how social and cultural prejudices go
Not exactly the Tolkienish trolls - a troll on usenet is someone who loves
making a statement like "I like my cats roasted, with tomato sauce" on
alt.pets.cats :)
> interest to somebody else. all i am saying is try to be a
> little sympathetic to people who are trying to learn things
~Please~ - if you see - most of the questions which are asked by people
who supply any kind of detailed info (about their sound cards, say)are
answered.
The questions which get ~anybody's~ goat here are those which go something
like "Hi, my ymf 724 is not working on linux" :)
> outside their main area of interest. for most people a pc is
> just a means to getting other things done. the point, again,
> is, has linux got anything for people who don't want to
Linux is for people who want good performance - _without_ being spoonfed
every second, like with Windows. It is for experimentation rather than
spoonfeeding.
> spend a whole night compiling kernels just to hear an mp3
> song? and if the established linux community members don't
I've never compiled a kernel in my life :) I just hit upgrade when the
next version of redhat is released.
more later ... gotta go to a movie :)
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
Brain, n.:
The apparatus with which we think that we think.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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