Once, long ago--actually, on Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:22:45PM -0700--Joe Zeff (joe@xxxxxxx) said: > On 08/07/2012 01:05 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > I still remember when configuring X included selecting by hand the > proper driver for your card, and how badly things would fsck > themselves up if you had the wrong one. OH, yeah. That really stopped me from pointing neocluebies to Linux at the time. > After reconfiguring with the proper driver, I sent a nice little > email to the maintainer, letting him know about the error. Uh-oh. > What I got back was an arrogant snotty-gram telling me that he's the > one who wrote the driver and he knows that it works with my card. I > replied, telling him ... > ...He shut up and stopped arguing. You were lucky. I'm dead certain he didn't agree, but at least he shut up. It's a lot nastier when they really want to argue. > The point of this, if there is one, is that things are much better > now than they were back in the Second Millennium, and nobody in > their right mind would want to go back. I'm from Waaay Back. I don't miss the Good Old Days one bit. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
