Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:43:22
Message-Id: 20130110214115.GA12004@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore) by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:42:30PM -0800, felix@×××××××.com wrote
2 > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:01:57 -0600
4 > > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > Since this is
7 > > > depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained
8 > >
9 > > <nitpick>
10 > >
11 > > The word you want is "deprecated".
12 > >
13 > > "depreciated" is something else entirely, it's what your employer does
14 > > to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get the value
15 > > down to nothing.
16 > >
17 > > </nitpick>
18 >
19 > "Depreciated" is perfectly cromulent in this instance.
20
21 You really think it's copacetic?
22
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24 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
25 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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