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Re: Departing from linux-il list
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Arik Baratz wrote:
> I agree. When I was a Linux newbie, I just learned basic UNIX commands and
> wanted to install my own box. So I bought a disk, and I spent around 3
> hours!!! reading all the stuff on the distribution, before I chose a
> boot/root pair and started installing. Then I read through every program
> description I installed (I think it was slackware 2.2 and the color menus
> were unstable).
>
> Then after I got the hang of it, I erased my entire partition and
> installed it again, this time setting a sane size for my swap partition!!!
Blessed be you, live long and prosper, multiply and inherit the earth.
> The questions I asked started coming much later, when all I described
> until now became a routine (I installed many linuces since then).
Christ! A proper plural of a Latinate noun. Hey, you, Meir's Zad, see
this? This one has read. _HAS_ in the most profound, perfective, praesens
perfectum sense.
> It is a matter of reading.
Arik - I am in love. Will you marry me?
> As part of my job I install Linux to other people in here, and believe me,
> language is an EXCUSE!!! people DON'T LIKE TO RTFM, and they like things
> to be given to them on a silver plate. That's part of human nature. Most
> humans, at least. They don't like to strain their eyes over technical
> docs.
Or, if you won't marry me, will you let me become your mistress? I am
indeed in love.
Now, people - both my admirers and those wishing to hit me over the head
with the collected documentation of the VMS OS (that is, those who can
LIFT the bloody thing) - it is not my propensity to say "hear, hear!" and
nod. Normally, indeed, I am unused to people agreeing with me.
The fact of Ira's, Arik's, Evgeny's and others' agreeing with is proof
manifest that I was and am right. I shall, therefore, persevere.
I admit to having absolutely NO personal malice towards Borik, an
ignoramus though he is, nor towards Eddie Harari nor towards many others.
Not even to Sefi Merkin, though he insulted my computer... :-)
I harbour malice only towards the Meirzadeh for he, in his incontinency,
dared threaten me and then tried to follow through on his threat. I
intend, and this, Mr. Meirzadeh, is a statement of intent, to have you
pilloried. Look this last verb up, ignoramus. I will resort to all
standard and lawful means, namely the authorities.
---MAV (finger for PGP signature block)
My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies.
Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il) Linguists do it cunningly
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