On Thursday 04 March 2010, Craig White wrote: >On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 23:20 +0100, birger wrote: >> We old-timers must not forget that times are a-changing. Hardware >> evolves. Old truths die. We must never think that just because we had >> the answers yesterday we still have them today. >> >> Me, I think that keeping my system simple enough that I can upgrade >> often gives me better performance than trying to tweak everything. Let >> there be as few surprises for the updates as possible. > >---- >this is especially funny considering that you are saying this to Gene, >the master of 'if it worked for him once, it will always be true' and >'overthink, overtinker, overreach every possible configuration option >and then bitch and moan about the problems that it creates down the >road'. > >We are talking about the guy who builds everything as root, runs >everything including GUI as root, builds from tarballs and never >packages rpm's, compiles vanilla kernels without the redhat patches, >etc., uses samba instead of nfs to share files but still claims to not >use anything Windows, and as evidenced upthread, will spend endless >hours tinkering with partitioning because of self perceptive speed >improvements (no empirical tests mind you) and without bothering to >check if his hard drive is actually jumpered for the highest speed. > >Thanks for the laugh > >Craig And believe it or not, I am glad you are amused. But the funny part is that I haven't installed the latest way too small cages for my lab rats, and I haven't just spent 2 weeks making audio work again, if I could, some here probably give up and go watch the tube, and I am absolutely ecstatic that I no longer use an nvidia video card in any of my boxes, the last old, dusty and positively decrepit 4 meg TNT died last fall. I do have dreams that someday I can install a fresh reddish hat and it will just work. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -- Patton -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
