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- Tom
--- Alan Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jey Kottalam wrote:
> > On 7/12/07, Alan Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >> White on black text, which I have to manually set
> my X-term for every
> >> time I open a fucking window on Linux is the best
> compromise available
> >> for such crippled systems. =(
>
> > [Off Topic]
>
> > Sounds more like a crippled user than a crippled
> system. I just set
> > the default color in my ~/.Xdefaults file.
>
> Fuck you, jackass.
>
> I have not flamed anyone in years, and I when I
> have, I always took it
> offlist. You, sir, deserve it richly and in public.
>
> I am furious at you and everything you stand for. I
> hate your aditude, I
> hate your smug presumption that it is my fault for
> not knowing
> information that is essentially inaccessible to me.
> I hate every
> software developer who expects the user to spend
> what amounts to his
> entire life searching for this kind of shit.
>
> The worst thing about unix advocates is that they
> think Unix is better
> than DOS. It is not.
>
> If Unix was better than DOS then everything except
> the most trivial of
> utilities would be fully interactive and user
> friendly.
>
> If unix was better than DOS, than most unix console
> text editors would
> be mouse-enabled!!!
>
> If unix was better than DOS, Every program would
> have a comprehensive
> on-line help system or be so self-evident as to not
> need one.
>
> If unix was better than DOS, Configuration files
> would always be present
> and never hidden. I have been using my unix system
> for three and a half
> years and I do not have a ~/.Xdefaults file.
>
> If unix was better than DOS, the default help system
> would allow you to
> search within a help-file for keywords or arbitrary
> text. -- not to
> mention being fully indexed and searchable. ;)
>
> If Unix were better than DOS, then the system
> defaults would be almost
> identical to what you would want to customize it to.
> =P
>
> As it turns out, .Xdefaults is only mentioned once
> in the fucking
> manpage and then only in passing. The options you
> describe, ARE NOT
> MENTIONED IN THE FUCKING MANUAL AT ALL!!! XTERM HAS
> NO ON-LINE HELP, SO
> THEREFORE IT IS HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO KNOW
> THAT THOSE FUCKING
> OPTIONS EVEN FUCKING EXIST!!!!
>
> There is one fundamental truth that needs to be
> beaten into your skull
> with a 2x4, -- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CRIPPLED
> USER -- 99% OF THE
> TIME IT IS THE SYSTEM NOT THE USER, AND 99% OF THE
> TIME, IT'S THE
> SOFTWARE NOT THE HARDWARE.
>
> Have a look at this:
>
> ################################
> Search Results for '.Xdefaults':
> Top-Level Documentation
> Application Manuals
> Htdig error:
> Unable to read document database file
>
'/home/atg/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.docdb'
> Did you run htdig?
>
> UNIX manual pages
>
> [nothing]
> #################################
>
> Read it and weep!!!!!!
>
> I mean _CRY_.
>
> How the fuck am I supposed to know what to put in a
> .Xdefaults file when
> there is no fucking manpage to tell me how to
> fucking do it.
>
> Wait a minute, I just actually read that, DOES IT
> ACTUALLY MEAN TO SAY
> THAT I NEED TO RUN AN OBSCURE COMMAND-LINE UTILITY
> IN ORDER TO MAKE THE
> HELP SYSTEM WORK??? I just tried said program and it
> appeared to stall
> waiting for input... I couldn't make it do anything
> useful. the manpage
> was, as usual, written in moonspeak... Nothing in it
> told me what I was
> supposed to do to make khelpcenter work. =(
>
> If Unix were even a tenth as good as DOS, it would
> set up these files
> for me and WALK ME THROUGH THE PROCESS OF
> CUSTOMIZING THEM... Want
> evidence? I can show you a copy of DOS which does
> exactly that when you
> install it!
>
> Actually, I have not used that installer for half a
> decade because DOS
> never fails and a DOS installation can simply be
> copied from HD to HD
> and still remain perfectly functional and absolutely
> reliable.
>
> Unix is several orders of magnitude too complex to
> be absolutely reliable.
>
> Truly, I wish I could sit everyone in the world down
> at a computer, ask
> them to load a text editor, and then immediately
> execute everyone who
> opened vi or any of its variants. =| Two years
> later, computers would be
> a thousand times easier to use!
>
> If I ever meet you in real life, I'll kill you on
> the spot with my bear
> hands!
>
> The last company to even show an effort at making a
> usable Operating
> system was BeInc. =(
>
> Want to know the truth? I've given up on computers.
> I no longer want to
> program them, I don't want to write an operating
> system, I don't even
> want to use them all that much. As long as I can
> keep using my
> web-browser and e-mail client I'm not even going to
> try to change
> anything on my computer for fear of breaking it in
> such a way that I
> would not be able to use either my web-browser or my
> e-mail client. Five
> years of painful unix experience has taught me not
> to try to do anything
> at all with the system which there isn't a pre-made
> script for. My most
> recent change to the system was to try to install a
> better video card, I
> was off-line for the better part of six hours trying
> to get X-windows to
> load again.
>
> Unix has no redeeming qualities. It is not worth
> another minute of my time.
>
> Then, I get on-line and am confronted by
> motherfuckers such as yourself
> who have the audacity to blame the user for the
> failings of a
> spectacularly awful system.
>
> If I am interpolating correctly from this kind of
> aditude, and what the
> uploaders have been spewing about, life as an upload
> will be a million
> million times worse than it is today and that most
> uploads will die
> accidentally by changing a config file in such a way
> as to cause their
> own malfunction.
>
> Where's the send button...
>
> --
> Opera: Sing it loud! :o( )>-<
>
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