Hate SATA hard drives

[Leonard Chatagnier]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 6:12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Hate SATA hard drives
> 
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 07:12 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > You guys are definitely not following the C of C. At least Karl tries
> > to help when someone is not putting him down.  I find even his more
> > snooty replies more enjoyable
> > that both your comments.  Perhaps you should read the rules again if
> > you ever have.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > 
> 
> Some of Karl's (as well as other users) replies are just so basic they
> are not helpful at all.  For instance, a user states he has trouble
> getting email...  Karl suggest he may not be connected to the internet.
> Although, that _is_ one of the possibilities, it is very unlikely that
> the user did not notice this thus making Karl's post very unhelpful.
> 
> I think everyone should put a little experience and research into a
> reply before they click the send button.  I cannot count the number of
> times I have written a reply to a list, only to cancel my reply after
> reading.
> 
> Over the years, I have been guilty of this myself, but today I am more
> aware of what I say.  This is not a personal attack on Karl.  I just
> used one of his post I recalled as an example.  We all have our bad
> days.
> 

You know Karl. I know Karl.  Everyone knows Karl.  But my point is that
the best way to minimize the noise, bantering and insults on this list is
to just not comment on Karl's posts unless following it would truly result
in disastrous results for the OP.  In most cases that is not the case but if
you put him down on most every post, etc, etc, etc., he is going to come
back with even more insulting comments and I would do the same if 
people treated me the same and so would you and the others.  So, better
to just bite our tongue and say nothing unless his reply would be truly
harmful.  Besides, it's a good learning experience if someone tries a
suggestion that is not harmful.  He will learn.  And most everyone knows
even the novice, that you don't format the hard drive if you don't like the OS.
Maybe format the partition in question but not the whole drive.  I think most
novices have more intelligence  than you give them credit for and have a fair
idea of what you can or can't do to a computer, HDD,  CDROMD and if they
don't know how to format, make partitions and install from a CD then they
should learn and start by installing gparted, fdisk, etc. and reading up on it.
You can't hurt hardware with software but you can mess up an OS and even
though that is a real PITA, it's a good learning experience.  I did that a time
or two in my early experience with Debian and just reformmated and reinstalled.
If that hasn't happened to you then you really don't use a computer.
I also know that some people's comments about Karl are not helpful and are just
vindictive because they are not very tolerant of him and his posting style.  Karl 
does want to help most of the time but does take exception to some posting styles.
I'm ranting on but my main point is that there would be a lot less noise and bickering
on this list if everyone would just read and ignore his replies unless absolutely
necessary to prevent serious harm which is not the case most of the time.
BTW, I do agree that everyone should put a little research ane experience into
their replies and reread it before sending.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net