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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one |
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> of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason |
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> to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what |
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> you want. |
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<SNIP> |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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Alan, |
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Maybe in the future you'll consider this story: For your |
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entertainment, please imagine an 82 year old woman who, unknown to |
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anyone, has somehow gone beyond simple web browsing and email and |
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managed to teach herself to watch a DVD on her Gentoo laptop. Possibly |
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she is hard of hearing? This works well for her as she can use |
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headphones and listen at levels that work for her any time of day or |
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night. Once you get your head around that picture, please imagine this |
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user being frustrated for _months_ when her 'no good reason to be |
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there DVD' goes away. This user feels, for no good technical reason, |
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that she has somehow hurt her computer and worse worries about the |
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costs of fixing it. She remains silent, doesn't ask for help and loses |
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access to something that she enjoys all because someone in the dev |
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community decides to 'make a change'. |
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Not every user (of Gentoo or any other distro) lives in the |
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rarefied world of a Linux Sys Admin, much less the far more lowly and |
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infinitely more mundane world I inhabit. My experience is that people |
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almost always need a little help and almost never ask. |
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Over and out, |
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Mark |
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