Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid.
>>>
>>> put up or shut up:
>> ...
>> Congratulations on your accomplishments!
>
>% fn ck { grep $* /n/sources/patch/*/email /n/sources/patch/^(applied
>maybe saved sorry)^/*/email >[2]/dev/null |wc -l}
>% ck sstall...@gmail.com
> 28
>% ck k...@sciops.net
> 0
>
>Perhaps it's better to be known for the occasional masturbatory
>session than for being an incorrigible troll.
>
>Steve
What's incorrigible is the way you people consistently reply to questions from
newbs with claims that it is trivial to do various tasks on Plan 9 without ever
quite revealing that 1.) it isn't, and 2.) you aren't really referring to the
task they suggested, anyway. Skip does this, Every. Single. Time. What is the
point?
What do you use that rpi "cluster" for, Skip? Do you mean to imply some the
availability of some facility for process migration? You know none exists.
The latest amusing evolution is a parade of replies from the usual suspects
where it's never quite clear which of them are promoting or denigrating the
degraded web-centric nature of modern computing. First various ribbons and
medals associated with historic Plan 9 campaigns are displayed and then the
same noble campaigners suggest that Plan 9 users are cave men clinging to stone
tools. I think the quips are so clever precisely because their target is
indeterminate. Great, you're funny, but again, what is the point?
How does any of this clarify matters for interested newbs?
My personal favorite aspect of this tiresome dance is the eventual denunciation
of trolls. Here, in the spiritual home of Mark V Shaney!
The problem is not trolling. The problem is low to medium quality trolling,
performed by armchair quarterbacks who want credit for being Plan 9 Gandalfs
but who are unwilling to provide the simple service of speaking in words that
make sense. Mothra forbid any should cast aspersions upon the sacred world wide
web,
bringer of the paycheck and dresser of the tongue.
Kurt provides free hosting for the 9front mercurial repository, after Google
found better things to do with their time. Thanks, Kurt.
sl
