Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > In this case, Debian/PPC is not for you. Not yet. Period. > > > > Wow, that's quite a statement. Some aspects of Debian are harder > > (installation, poor > > I don't think it's quite a statement. First off, Debian isn't even > released for PowerPC. It's in testing,

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > In this case, Debian/PPC is not for you. Not yet. Period. > > Wow, that's quite a statement. Some aspects of Debian are harder > (installation, poor I don't think it's quite a statement. First off, Debian isn't even released for PowerPC. It's in testing, potato will be the first official re

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a > > > little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get > > > short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. > > > > The problem is that I'm not a hacker trying this linux distr

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Kent West
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > One rant that's still on my to-do list is for people who send HTML > to mailing lists. I hate that. ;-P > >CMC > > P.S. Good thing I haven't gotten around to adding a filter rule to > class HTML mail as spam (most of it is), or I would have > missed you

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread C.M. Connelly
Kent, What I sometimes do is write the rant, then save it somewhere and get away from the computer for a while. If I still feel the same way a day or two later, I'll reconsider sending the rant as-is to the person or group who inspired it. That rarely happens. Sometimes I rework it into a more

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Kent West
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: OK, let's try this again. !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Not for the goal of getting a solution, or for the benefit of the list members. But rants can, in some cases, do a world of good, psychologically, for the ranter. I'm not suggesting that we consider them socially acceptable

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > OK, let's try this again. > > > > !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Nor does yelling out loud :-) > > Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a > > little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get > > short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. >

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-03 Thread Aaron Davies
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > OK, let's try this again. > > !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! > > Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a > little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get > short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. The problem is t

Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
OK, let's try this again. !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. The lack of documentation is a result of no one having tim

Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-02 Thread Aaron Davies
I've gotten over hurdle mentioned in my last (almost ingnored) help request by copying the install data files to a ZIP disk. This, incidentally, is the kind of thing that needs to be on the powermac install page in big red text with a lot of tags: RESCUE DISK CANNOT READ HFS+! Also, is anyone p