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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: new new scsi release beta2 part 1 of 5 (fixed)SKIP
Message-ID: <1992Oct1.182115.14256@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 18:21:15 GMT
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In article <rwa.717885468@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
>terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>>Currently, the command line configuration tools are abominable. I shouldn't
>>have to edit my file (hoping I have the right one) to change an IRQ or add
>>pty's, config it, change directories (making sure I get the one named the
>>same as my file), make depend, make, and then manually install the resulting
>>executable, remembering to delete the devices which are no longer applicable
>>to my new configuration, and adding the ones which are but did not exist
>>prior to the most recent rebuild.
>
><yawn, another newbie...>
>
>If you can't handle it, admit you're an incompetent and stay out of
>the kitchen. You might change your silly mail address too; a wizard
>indeed! Real wizards don't so much as imagine that the simple list of
>trivial steps you mention are worth spending time on, much less
>kvetching about.
>
>Just run the GENERIC kernel, and leave the hacking to your betters.
>
>Ross
>--
>Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq@ve6mgs.ampr.org
Tee Hee Hee. Giggle. Snort.
I love it when I try to start a discussion about "how to make something
require less effort" and get accused of being a "newbie" ...usually by
someone who just got done spending 90 hours figuring out how do do what
I want simplified and thinks they know everything now.
Now we're in for another six months of "a *real* wizard..." 8-). To
start us off, why don't we try:
"A *real* wizard... knows to read signature lines because not
all Computing Services and IS departments know how to make
bind work."
or
"A *real* wizard... tends to be literate enough to recognize
reference like 'A Wizard of Earth C' as a pun on the title
of an Ursula K. LeGuin novel."
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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