Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Alex Daniloff <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the originator of this crap:
Dude, you owed me a new keyboard.
I spilled a hot coffee over it when I laughed reading your bullshit.
Now I'm gonna sue you for the damages. 
Doesn't it sound the same as your troll story?
Are you a law school student by the chance?

Alex


On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:10 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> * Sebastian Wolff (sebastian.wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [031203 19:00]:
> >Dear SuSE community!
> >
> >This is a call for help and a troll against Linux.
>
> This bullshit and your right a troll from someone who knows very little
> about hardware.
>
> >Is it possible that in particular situations Linux may kill the main board
> > of any laptop?
>
> Nope. But it can write to writable eproms such as the bios which is
> evident in the Mandrake incident in which a bug caused Mandrake 9.2 to
> screw up the eprom on certain CDROM drives. But if that was the case
> then a $20 bios chip would fix your issue not a whole new main board.
>
> >the worst case - therefore, to press reset is a very common and intuitive
> > way.
>
>                                                                 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WTF is this? You sound like some foofoo Mac user who thinks
> "force-quit" is an intuitive way to kill a program when as of OSX it's just
> a fancy (read idiotic term) for kill -9 >pid< ...this doesn't inspire
> confidence at all.
>
> >Well. Sometimes it can also kill your whole hardware.
>
> You can..an OS can not. My buddy called me last night saying the same
> shit but he's not the most computer savvy guy but it just so happened
> that close to the same time he installed SUSE 9.0...his six year old..yes
> six year old CDROM drive decided to crap out. It was not Linux that
> killed it..it was that it was a $20 POS CDROM when I bought it for
> him..so I'm surprised it had lasted this long. But thank God instead of
> freaking out and spouting nonsense about suing someone for his POS CD
> drive he asked calm rational questions and figured the problem out.
>
> >(1) What happened ???!
>
> You own a computer when you should not and/or maybe someone you know should
> get you a Powerbook an the 1-800 # for tech support?
>
> >(2) Who can I sue for it?
>
> The obstetrician your parents used?
>
> >After all this operating system (really, I liked it till now) destroyed a
> > value of 2500 Euro (2700 $) within only 2 month! As a student I can live
> > with that money for a whole year - and then I wanted to finish a research
> > project next week - 3 complete month of work are gone now.
>
> Backups..always keep backups.
>
> >Now, this is a 'free' operating system. Who is responsible? Linus
> > Torvalds? SuSE? The developer who produced this bug? Rather nobody. After
> > this incident I have to define 'reliability' in a new sense. This
> > warranty problem might be a reason to encourage companies to stay at
> > Windows, HP-UX or MacOS.
>
> No one really because SUSE Linux didn't do anything wrong in this
> situation..and neither would any of the other environments you meant.
>
> Please learn what your talking about before coming on this list to rant
> and rave. And if you are just simply a troll as one other suggested then
> I hope you read this and understand that we won't fall for this sort of
> behavior as some of my fellow OS/2 users did. We simply don't care if
> like or use Linux...it's about time we stopped pandering to people who
> shouldn't even own a computer in most cases. We really need the gene
> pool cleaned in the computer world.
>
> If you are a University student then by God I hope your a freshman and
> that by the time you get out you will be better at critical thinking.
>
> bah!
>
> --
> Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@xxxxxxxxx
> --
> Why do we bother with a suicide watch when someone is on deathrow? " Keep
> an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt
> himself."