On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:36:05 +0100, Hadron wrote:
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> In article <pan.2007.12.31.19.16.04.112100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > If you post this in Digg, the mob will burn an effigy of yours. ;-)
>>>
>>> Why? I haven't been over to Digg for a while, what do they have against
>>> Ubuntu?
>>
>> Nothing in general. Lots of Ubuntu fans there. But there is a small
>> group that will lecture you about confusing Ubuntu with Linux if you
>> don't point out in your post that Wifi can be made to work on other
>> distros, too. Oddly, Roy is part of that small group, which makes his
>> post here kind of puzzling.
>
> It is only puzzling if you forget to take into account the main reason
> half the "COLA gang" are here.
What 'COLA gang'? And what has COLA got to do with Digg, which is where
the attitude in discussion was mentioned?
>
> They are here because a long time back they learnt the arguments for ls
> or cd or (and fair play) "find" and they thought they were "l33t".
In my case, at least, you are utterly wrong. And probably that goes for a
lot of other people here. Frankly, I despise the 'word' l33t, and I don't
know of anyone here who uses it. That's for silly kids.
>
> That, in their little world, made them special.
Smarter, maybe.
>
> It's why people like Gregory and the rest do not want Linux made easy
> for the masses.
Some do, some don't.
>
> See the latest posts in the Ubuntu group where ( a decent fellow) Andrew
> thinks that Dell making DVDs play on insert is a "bad thing".
What reason did he give? Thought personally I'd prefer them not to play
automatically, it's annoying when all you're trying to do is archive the
contents, not play it.
>
> Most of the gang have no interest in advocating Linux. They only want to
> advocate how clever and ahead of the curve they are.
Bollocks.
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Kier
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