Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

David Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 10 18:13:15 UTC 2005


Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:

> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:41:40PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>>
>>>Only if you are stupid enough to let it overwrite your data...
>>
>>That's absolutely the wrong attitude to take, and will get
>>Ubuntu precisely zero converts.
> 
> Who cares about getting converts like this? The OP is either daft enough
> to miss several big obvious warnings and arrogant enough to assume that
> the fault lies with an OS sucessfully used by thousands of other people
> rather than with him, or he's trolling on purpose.  Either way he's not
> likely to be much of an asset to the community.

	Dude, relax. Ever think of the possibility that it may not be his 
fault, or the installer? There's always the chance that the [Enter] key 
on his keyboard got stuck for a second, or maybe he accidentally 
double-tapped the key and not realized it?

	Now would everybody just lay of the poor guy!!! Drop this horse-s**t 
and get back to helping each other with Ubuntu...

>>That attitude is endemic among the Linux/Unix community, and it needs
>>to stop.
>>
> 
> It really doesn't. If a newcomer barged into your local pub and started
> shouting unfounded abuse at everyone you'd rightly expect them to be
> chucked out and barred from coming back. This is a relatively pleasant
> list to hang around in; people are mostly nice, knowledgable and
> helpful. The OP is none of those things everyone here is better off if
> they just shut up and go away.

	If the people here are nice, pleasant, and helpful, why don't you show 
us how? Otherwise, can the attitude.

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