DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Suggetion List

>>I'm sorry, but a smart-ass responce wasn't on my wish list

I really wasn't being a smart ass.  Being a smart ass is my freak, mutant gift, but I really wasn't employing it this time, honest.

>>I would rebuke you but I don't have the energy right now

But I've been very naughty, rebuke me really, really hard.

>>But maybe you should actually read the posts before replying?
>>IT would most defiently help...

Look, I read all of the posts and I've already said that I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass (okay, so the spanking bit was a bit uncalled for) but I did help.  My best bit of help was to make sure that you were coming into DSL with the correct perspective.

I've played around with a whole slew of computers AS/300, Mac IIc&IIe, MS-DOS (from around 3.somethingoranother), DR-DOS, Win 3.1, 95,98,ME, NT4, 2000 & XP, Macintosh System 7.x,8.x,9.x and OSX, OpenBSD, BeOS, Linux RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Slackware and DSL.  I got to bang around on an HP-UX terminal once or twice.  

What did I learn from all of those operating systems?  That each one is different and each has their own way of approaching problems and dealing with them.  Old school Macs supported only certain hardware, usually the best.  That's why hardware conflicts are unheard of in the Mac world.  Pretty good idea, huh?  Everything has it's strengths and to learn to be the most productive in each environment you may have to adapt your perceptions to the operating system's "way of thinking".

The thing is, if you come into something with preconceptions as to how you think it should work, you miss the opportunity to learn how else it could work.  If you're coming from a Windows world and wish Linux were more like Windows, you're going to try to find solutions in a manner that would fit into a Windows framework and become uber frustrated.  It would be better to try to wrap your mind around the Linux way of doing things if you intend to run Linux, doesn't that make sense to you?

>>I could make a very cynical reply and almost did but lucky,

Oh no.  I shudder with relief at the tounge lashing I was spared.  (See, now that's me being a smart ass, well, just a little bit).

>>for you, I have enough brain power to tell me to ignore
>>people like you.

Why should you have ignored what I told you?  Because I said putty sucks?  Putty does suck.  Telnet and rlogin are huge security risks.  Name one use for raw.  Just one.

>>Hopefuly you can be more productive and assitive in the future.
>>Some tips might be:
>>1) Read all the posts, check to make sure topics haven't already
>>been covered and dismissed.
>>2) If you wouldn't want to recieve a similar dis-tastful post to a
>>pretty positive thread that you started, then don't post it.
>>3) Learn some social skills, people don't like their ideas being torn
>>apart (or attempted to).

1)  I did that. I offered information that wasn't provided by those other posts.
2.) I have received much worse responses to far more intelligent questions.  I could have told you that you were too stupid to understand the answers or that you have no right using Linux and go back to your Windows world.  I was polite and a little bit flippant but I'm like that with everyone.
3.) Social skills also comes from being able to take criticism and being able to admit when you were wrong.  I apologise if you took it the wrong way but, I was trying to help.  Also, for the tearing apart of ideas bit, would it be better if I let you waste you time on something so trivial when you could have the information you needed and got on with your life?

>>Thanks and have a good day,

You too buddy.

~Me

-Philip McClure

>>P.S. If you ever need some more help, just give me a ring

No thanks, I can pee all by myself now, thanks.
(see, that was also smart ass ;)

*smirks* It wasn't the putty comment, it was the fact that you were going on about doing stuff in the shell when really I could everything in the control pannel from the shell. The CP is just to make life faster and simpler And I think that adding a few of those ideas would be cool though the ones that you dissed were ones that were already nicely turned down. You know, it may have just been the way I read it or you might have been in a bad mood becuase you sure seem pretty nice (and a tad bit funny) in your reply.
As I said before, I think you misinterpeted the printer setup comment...
Then telling me that the reason DSL had the word small in it was becuase of it's size was a little much 100mb for an HD install distro wouldn't be too big, but I understand the goal to keep it under 50mb (besides, you can create your own DSL cd )
I just like putty becuase it incorps all those features (though your right about some of their uses and security flaws but I still have to use them to do the things I want)
So, I am glade we got this sorted out. I can see that you really are pretty cool and I hope we can be friends

And yes, you better watch out! I sharpen my tongue daily :P

Have a good day
Me