Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3073 mails)

[Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Samstag, 5. Januar 2008 jdd:
> Tom Patton a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:59 +0100, jdd wrote:

> > > I simply open a root console, and "modprobe bttv".  Both cards then
> > > return to service...without having to go into YAST for anything.

> > I agree, it is easily dealt with as
> > is...at least for me.  I guess it would be a problem if I am not home
> > and the power fails...the wife would not have root access to restore the
> > camera system.  I'll reboot tomorrow morning and advise if it then
> > auto-loads bttv.

> it's possible to make a small script to do this automatically - may be
> add it in boot.local.

jdd, Tom, pardon my french, but do you realize how braindead this is? Writing 
a boot script to fix a confirmed and resolvable bug which is starting to grow 
really old and smelly in the pipeline?

Instead of doing the right thing and go bug and *help* the people that have 
the ability and responsibility to fix the bugs they've introduced way too 
many linux folks tend to happily spend hours of creating hapless and 
embarrassing workarounds.

I think that's the dark side of geek culture: For any given problem we rather 
create 10 ridiculous kludges instead of come up with the one obvious solution 
(fixing the original problem).

The irony of this: Linux geeks are totally unaware of the FUD this creates 
among non-geeks who want to get rid of windows because of microsoft's FUD.

Wolfgang
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