On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > Please don't damn me with dupllicates.
Sorry. > > And it's a matter about which I remain sceptical. I've not yet seen > evidence that the eject command helps, and I don't see why it should. It helps on my home machine, but not on my office machine. Evidence. > > More, I could contend that if it's needed for some hardware and not > other, then there's a bug loitering somewhere because the software layer > should provide a consistent user interface. > > A linux _user_ (as apposed to an _administrator_) shouldn't have to be > concerned with whether the CD burner is SCSI or ATA,the CPU is IA32 or > Ultrasparc, whether the printer is connected with USB, parallel or > bluetooth. Those are administrative (and maybe purchasing) trivia. > > Knowing to plug USB devices into a USB port, firewire into firewire is > enough. Everything else should just happen. > True, but irrelevant - the question was how to do it, not how should it work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
