Marc Chamberlin said the following on 02/11/2011 12:56 AM:
So it wasn't Evil USBs after all ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/nov/15/3
No, it wasn't an evil USB, it was poorly organized documentation, the nfsserver failing to guide or tell a user that he/she was trying to do something that would not work i.e. trying to mount a filesystem without also mounting the parent filesystem, intolerance of a newcomers inability to quickly comprehend a wide range of concepts and to rapidly sift though vast amounts of documentation in order to find a trinket of information necessary to solve this problem, an editor that failed to properly warn a user about embedded non-printing characters, a parser somewhere in autofs that failed to properly warn a user about embedded non-printing characters in a configuration file, a mount process that failed to tell the user that it could not perform it's task because it encountered those same non-printing characters, or perhaps because those non-printing characters were being interpreted as part of a file system name that was not being exported and by that same mount process simply hanging until a timeout occurred without any explanation whatsoever...
So, as well as not being able to tell the difference between a "programmer's" text editor and a word processor, you can't recognise a joke either. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org