On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:11:35PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 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 :) > Another reason the flamers are off base. ////jerry > > -- > Kind Regards > Rudi Ahlers > SoftDux > > Website: http://www.SoftDux.com > Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com > Office: 087 805 9573 > Cell: 082 554 7532 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >