Deploring *nix Philosophy ( Was Re : Splitting archives across floppies )
Parameshwara Bhat
pbhat at ongc.net
Thu Jun 3 08:52:10 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:40:22 +0100, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> (Netiquette note: when you're responding to a digest, it's a good idea
> to change the subject back to something useful).
(My original thread had it!It was perhaps overlooked in the second)
>
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>> Yes,that does work.But what I was looking for was not just meeting an
>> actual need.But a technological question as to why Linux can't do it or
>> doesn't do it or hasn't thought fo doing it ? What you suggest is a two
>> way work .But Winzip has been spanning floppies for many years and it
>> appears so simple a task in Windows.Why this feature not in Linux ? I
>> guess because of it's clumsy mount and unmount ?
>
> It's more a philosophical point.
> ( Rest read and snipped ! )
It indeed is ! Well I can't see the situation in your place, in my place I
am one attracted to FS /OSS for it's idealism and trying to keep myself
afloat on Linux in the sea of Windows and all personal computers . Now I
see that CDs cost a bit less than or at most equal to floppies and my
point perhaps makes no sense.
But in this lonely attempt,many times I felt frustrated at the complicated
ways even KDE and GNOME and Fedora think!Look at the stupidity of denying
access to floppies and CD-roms to user accounts(You can't unmount a CD and
not hope to eject)in a desktop installation of Fedora ( choice offered in
Anaconda ) I am both root and user.I am advised not to work as root.But I
can't take out a CD and put another one in ! I must be root to do that.I
can't dial up to internet connection as a user.I must be root to do that
and you are not supposed to be that connecting to internet.It is not all
that complicated to surmount this,but as a new user from the world of
Windows,each required great deal of wondering and digging.It is as much an
effort getting sound !
This is a common trait of all *nixes as I am learning.Whatever are the
inner strenghts and ideals,the above examples are born out of a lack of
respect for the common computer user.Clear message - computer not for
non-programmers and non-geeks!And as much out of a lack of
imagination.What else for it should offer you a desktop installation and
not bother to do the simple settings for you ?
I am an educated,thinking individual,but not in computers! but the world
of Linux and Unixes have no respect for people like me.They do not seem to
want us ( I do not mean to offend all those of you who have so voluntarily
shared my troulbes taking them upon you ! )
Rgds,
Parameshwara Bhat
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