On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:00:38PM -0500, Mailing List wrote: > >> On 1/23/2011 6:00 PM, Mark wrote: >> >On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> >>On 01/23/11 12:55 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Mark<mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>Can you tell us why you cross posted this to the Ubuntu mailing list? >> >>>>Are you just fishing for answers for your homework, like S. Mathis? >> >> I can not see the reason to why his question is being scrutinized. If I >> needed an >> answer whether it be homework or legitimate work I was doing, I would ask >> where ever >> I thought I would get the right answer. >> > > Good point. Though probably the prof would expect you to read > the references on the subject. Generally one of the main purposes > of an assignment is to get the student to become familiar with > the written resources that are available and how to find them. > Just finding the information is almosst secondary. > > But, on the other hand, whenever someone posts a somewhat OT question > there are far more irritating posts wasting much more bandwidth and > reader time than ever got affected by the original OT or somewhat OT > post - in the order of a couple of magnitudes more eg a hundred or two > posts per each OT post. So, I'd suggest these self-righteous flamers > find a good religious discussion to perform their cathartic ritual in. > > ////jerry > > > >> _______________________________________________ But who are we to judge him, as to why he asks the question? I would want to know this myself, for that matter since I'm experimenting with embedded PC's, running Linux on a flash disk, which has limited write cycles. Does that make me a school kid with an assignment? No. Maybe. Yes. How do you know how old I am, or what my agenda is? I am out of school, by the way and don't need to write stupit exams to prove my experience or knowledge either. But, I don't know everything, and it's many times easier to ask a question to a group of people who might have already stumbled upon the same thing that I'm trying out for the first time :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532