Screen Saver

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 1/9/09, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Screen Saver
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 11:08 PM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Ahh Ray Parrish, you are the one that better calm
> down.  I've followed you
> > thread from start to finish but it's so long that
> I and I expect most everyone else can't remember all the
> things suggested and tried.  Your attitude is not one that
> inspires the list to help you.  And your response to the one
> offering a suggestion below is uncalled for even if
> you've tried it. You need to either grow up or turn the
> heat on sooner when cold weather comes so it doesn't
> freeze your brain.  There was no call for your response to
> the person trying to help you out.  Frankly, I don' t
> give a damn if you ever solve your screen saver issue as
> it's not a critical problem anyway.
> 
> He says he has a couple of decades of experience. In all
> probability he
> is the type of typical "guru" bully one would
> find on unix related news
> groups. You know, the type who always belittles the novice
> user and have
> hardly anything else to say to a noobie except
> "RTFM". You are right, it
> is their kind's attitude. Whoever in this world is not
> perceived as
> smarter than them is a lower mortal to them and they think
> it is their
> godly duty to point out the weaknesses in those
> 'pathetic noobies or
> kiddies'.
> 
> He had a choice: either to politely remark that he had
> already tried
> that or to be crass. He chose the latter, which,
> incidentally takes
> longer to communicate! Go figure.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its
> corresponding
> newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address
> are just
> filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically
> deleted without
> ever having been read.
> 
You said it better than I ever could. Maybe he'll get the message.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net