New heat grease, no help

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:

> From: Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: New heat grease, no help
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 2:25 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > snip
> >> I'm a liar _and_ a cheat! Sorry, just trolling
> through!
> >>
> >> If anyone will take the advice of a mailing list
> post to
> >> remove a fan
> >> and spread grease on the cooling fins, then he
> should not
> >> have been
> >> opening the case to begin with. I'm serious.
> Darwin
> >> would agree.
> >>
> >> And if you are hiding from Windows in Ubuntu, and
> some bad
> >> advice will
> >> have you running back, then please do run. Ubuntu
> is a fine
> >> operating
> >> system on it's own merits, it does not have to
> be a
> >> sanctuary for teh
> >> h8z M$ kidz. Ubuntu's success need not be
> measured by
> >> how many Windows
> >> converts is attracts, no more than does
> Ubuntu's
> >> failure need to be
> >> measured by how many people leave Ubuntu for
> Windows. Even
> >> Mark
> >> Shuttleworth, who filed a bug against Ubuntu about
> >> Windows' dominant
> >> market share, advises against converting people to
> Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Have a good night, all, and don't forget:
> sticky air is
> >> what makes a
> >> computer run hot so get that air flowing by
> greasing the
> >> cooling fins.
> >> If the arctic silver grease isn't slippery
> enough, then
> >> try spraying
> >> some WD-40 on the processor, motherboard, and hard
> drives
> >> as well. You
> >> can always wash it away with water if it
> doesn't work.
> >>
> > This is totally uncalled for, Dotan and Cybr, and not
> appropriate for list mail.
> > I too read Karl's post and did not take any
> offense at what he said.  If anyone should leave the list I
> think it should be you two.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> > 
> 
> Apparently it could make sense to establish a certain
> degree of humour 
> as a base requirement for posting to the list.
> 
> Eberhard
> 
Your entitled to your opinion but I don't see it that way and Karl certainly didn't.
There are nice ways to tell someone they are not posting in a correct approved way. It's certainly not appropriate to say something that is totally incorrect and likely harmful to a computer in case a total noobie is reading and doesn't know any better. 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net