On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Steven Demetrius <steven.demetr...@fiwwi.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:27 +0000, Aneurin Price wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Steven Demetrius >> <steven.demetr...@fiwwi.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> > Does anyone here power off their computer without first shutting it >> >> > down? >> >> > Maybe, but after having to spend time repairing the system and/or >> >> > rebuilding >> >> > it or losing data they most likely don't anymore. >> >> >> >> Even if you're careful, you'll still occasionally lose power, and your >> >> machine will still occasionally crash. That's why people have developed >> >> file systems that can withstand even such situations (using journalling >> >> or a log structure). >> >> >> >> > Neither ext2 nor ext3 were designed to be used in this manor. >> >> >> >> ext3 was specifically designed for these situations. >> >> >> >> >> >> Stefan >> >> >> > >> > This is becoming ridiculous now. You are just replying and going to >> > extremes just because you can. >> > >> >> Are you reading the same discussion as me? >> >> > I'm here to try an help others just as I've got help in the past. Not to >> > get into some illogical off topic discussion. >> > >> > I look forward to discussing other topics with you but for now this one >> > is at end. >> > >> >> Huh? >> Have completely I missed some subtext here? Or maybe parts of the thread? >> > > Stefan: >
You are responding to the wrong person. > The original post for this thread was a user asking whether to use ext2 > or ext3 on a removable USB HD. > > Some people replying to the thread quoted bits and pieces of the thread > and replied to those pieces. This causes confusion and leads to off > topic discussions. As in this case. > The only problem I've seen in this thread is you. > There are currently other posters arguing about top-posting, > bottom-posting and inline-posting. With some saying they will do what > they want regardless. This is nuts! > All with a changed subject line so it is easier to ignore. > The whole point to this mailing list is to help Debian users. Some of > them new users. > > With all the off topic posts, inconsistent posting and arguments, not > discussions, the mailing list seems chaotic and this does not encourage > people to participate and therefore does not encourage people to use > Debian. > > Some posters do not fully read the posting they are replying and from > their posts do not give their own post much thought either. > > One example is saying that a good UPS costs about the same as a > computer. A simple price search on the Internet will prove this wrong. > This shows that the poster did not even verify the post and is just, > excuse the phrase, talk out of his ass! > You know what? Fuck you. Try finding a UPS listing a load capacity of greater than 2-3 minutes for less than £200. The useful information given is that apparently they last far longer than that most of the time. In fact I spent about fifteen minutes searching for any which would be a reasonable replacement for the one we have here, which doesn't last long enough to give the machine time to shut down. > Yes I've made mistakes, however I post corrections. > Your contributions to this thread have ranged from useless to trolling. > I also give references so that people can go look up and read the > material for themselves. > Now you appear to be simply lying. > Now if you think about where this thread started ( a user asking whether > to use ext2 or ext3 for a removable USB HD) and where it is now what > would you say. > > Please note that this is not a personal attack. > I'm unsubscribing from d-u for a few days because I've reached my monthly obnoxiousness tolerance already. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org