Re: see ya

2009-10-12 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:07:56AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > >> Ah go back to TLUG you frickin twit. You were an arsehole there and are one >> here. > > That was rude and unnecessary. Sure, and from what I can tell it was an over the top

Re: see ya

2009-10-12 Thread John Hasler
S. Fishpaste writes: > He's a twit. Know him from TLUG. Then killfile him and move on. Don't bother us about it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:07:56AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > Ah go back to TLUG you frickin twit. You were an arsehole there and are one > here. That was rude and unnecessary. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4599 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:40:20 +0100, Liviu Andronic in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 >> JoeHill wrote: >> > I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly >> >> infantile name-calling flame fe

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400, JoeHill in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and > so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel > like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy postin

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM, green wrote: > You should be able to adjust your touchpad behavior with gsynaptics or in > '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'... Well, that is a good step in the right direction. Thanks. I'll experiment further. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on you

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread green
David Fox wrote at 2009-10-11 17:12 -0500: > (Speaking of laptops, I have a Fujitsu that is all around a good > laptop but it's the touchpad that is too sensitive. It often makes me > find myself bouncing the cursor around on the screen in the middle of > composing an email, and sometimes it drives

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Jason Filippou
> > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so they feel like a big shot; when most > of the answers h

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Graham
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so th

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, David Fox wrote: > I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your > touchpad being an issue, but never did I see a negative tone or > anything condescending. > The initial intervention was polite, indeed. But not so the subsequent vulgar, off-list message to which I

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Justin
Bye.

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the "mplayer: > jumping around" thread. Joe doesn't seem familiar with decency. I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your touchpad being an issue, but never did I

see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
ACK! Sorry for posting to the user and not the list! On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM,   wrote: > Interesting how opinions can differ so much between reasonable people > (which I'm pretty sure I am, and I'll assume you are).  In addition I'm sure the list quality here (and has been in my experie

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 > JoeHill wrote: > > I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly > > infantile name-calling flame fests I find in most Linux-related > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Mark
> I've been on here a year, and I've gotten decent help from exactly > _one_ person, and that was Florian, IIANM. Otherwise, this list just > takes up space. I find it tough to complain about a list/service which is free and exists because people voluntarily help others. Just my $0.02, keep the c

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread debian
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so th

see ya

2009-10-11 Thread JoeHill
When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so they feel like a big shot; when most of the answers have absolut