name resolution

[Xen]

Liam Proven schreef op 26-11-2017 20:26:

> Now, this poor angry person Xen is shouting angrily at me, because
> modern Internet standards don't work the way he wants, and he wants it
> his way, and he can't have it, so he is spamming his ISP with DNS
> requests for internal names that the external DNS can't resolve, and
> it's my fault and Apple's fault and those hideous evil nasty bad tech
> companies who BROKE HIS SYSTEM... because he doesn't really know what
> he's doing, but he wants it his way, without learning to do it the
> right way.

No I'm not, those .local queries get handled and blocked by dnsmasq 
running on a local small device.

You keep saying I don't know what I'm doing, but you don't even _know_ 
what I'm doing.

I mean drop the attitude you know.

> And because I do know how to do it, I am bad and evil and one of Them
> and I keep using my age and knowledge to make him look bad.

No I'm not saying you are trying to humiliate me, you are not that kind 
of person.

Although you often condescend, but that's minimal.

I'm just saying there is not just "one way" to do things.

As you explain here, you want to find the ONE PATH that offers the least 
resistance, and stick with it. And that then, is "how to do it".

> All my fault.

Maybe not be so forceful in your advice.

I mean you say Gene has also been the subject of your advice ;-).

Gene also wanted to do it his way and probably succeeded.

Gene wanted to do it his way, for himself.

You wanted him to do it your way.... for... ? For him or for you?

For him of course, but that makes no sense.

> I'm not a programmer. I can't provide code to Linux.

But that's the difference between you and me Liam.


I was once on the Drupal forums complaining about how I couldn't figure 
out to change stuff in some easy, code-like fashion.

You know, like is possible with WordPress because you can just change 
the template file (that is an executable PHP file) but Drupal insists 
you do it through a series of components that all provide a form of 
mapping and you can really only change it through the GUI.

That means you first need to read a freaking book on it before you can 
do anything to it, at least programming wise, I mean unless you 
experiment a lot with the GUI to see what it does.

They also increased from 7 to 8 the programmatic burden of writing 
extensions by a factor 4.

When I was upset that I couldn't do the simplest things (like run Drupal 
in a sub-folder) and there was also no way to hack around it (they 
blocked that way on purpose)



some none-programmer started fuming at me that I had to go with the flow

The move from 7 to 8 is systemd-like, high-level constructs, a 
complicated design.

But unchangeable by the user.

It's impossible as a novice to find a place to put some code.

But because 8 was latest and I just got started with Drupal, I didn't 
want to start out with an older version.

It took me some time to realize that most of the guides I was reading 
were for Drupal 7 and didn't work, banging my head against a wall.

> But some people will still write you 3 or 4 emails in a row, shouting
> at you, cursing you, calling you names, saying you're cheating by
> claiming special knowledge, or calling you a liar, for offering free
> help.

Look you are shouting at ME.

And I'm not saying you're cheating but you might not know everything 
even when you think you do,

...

And you're also not thinking in creative solutions because you cannot 
create them because you are not a programmer...

If you are not a programmer then you don't see certain options.