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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:37:47 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Do you see the pattern, your lack of understanding is not a failing of |
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> > the software? This is not a technological point, or even a political |
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> > one, it is about being outside of your comfort zone. Using Gentoo is |
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> > an exercise in expanding your comfort zone. |
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> It's not about comfort zone for me. It's that I do NOT want to use a |
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> init thingy. Period. Real simple. I had fits with that thing in the |
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> past and I do not want to revisit the issue again, certainly not on |
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> Gentoo. I'm not going to revisit hal either. I forgot the name but not |
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> the lesson I learned from it. |
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I realise that, you do have a real knack for breaking things, and thus a |
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strong motivation for avoiding anything new, or that bit you in the past. |
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> I might also add, I switched to grub2 a while back. The old grub worked |
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> fine but I wanted to go ahead and switch to the new grub since it seems |
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> to be ready and stable. Was that outside my comfort zone? |
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almost certainly. It is for anyone used to legacy GRUB. Is it outside of |
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your comfort now? No, because you took the trouble to learn how to use |
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it. I was exactly the same with GRUB2, and with init doodahs. now I am |
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not only capable of using and breaking both, but also of having a good go |
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at cleaning up the mess afterwards :) |
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Neil Bothwick |
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What did the first man to discover you can get milk from cows think he |
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was doing? - anon. |
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