After talking to lilo of freenode staff about this matter, I was
advised that ##debian (yes, two '#') and not #debian-friendly is the
right place for the unofficial debian support channel. So I have
joined it and would like to ask others to do so as well, so we can try
to help those who (for whatev
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 at 08:45:25 +, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> > published. When you're getting started you're way too stupid to
>
> "Stupid"? I may not be a native speaker, but that certainly doesn't look
> like the correct term at all
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> published. When you're getting started you're way too stupid to
"Stupid"? I may not be a native speaker, but that certainly doesn't look
like the correct term at all for "someone who does not know enough yet, but
will learn".
Try "unexperienced", o
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:11:52AM +0100, housetier wrote:
> I don't think that #debian is a place for newbies to turn to when they
> need help. When newbis ask for help they face a very urgent problem
> and are usually overwhelmed by it. For their questions to be answered
That's precisely the wro
I don't think that #debian is a place for newbies to turn to when they
need help. When newbis ask for help they face a very urgent problem
and are usually overwhelmed by it. For their questions to be answered
in #debian they must follow a certain protocol which is strictly
enforced with all means p
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:49:31 -0800
Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>
>
> That being said: Why is this so hard to grasp? Until you can comply
> with this list's rules on conduct, this conversation is over.
Paul, are you sure he's hitting "reply to all"? There certainly might
be something munged on my e
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:32 am, you wrote:
> Ok, so where did I say that?? I NEVER talked about switching IP's. So
> this is the time when I am right to start adressing you as a FOOL!?
> Because you made a mistake? According to you and a couple of other
> geeks it is!
> [...]
> If both su
Kim wrote:
Saying that I soon experienced a lot of rudeness and after only posting
I think about 5 messages in total I got banned. And since I sit on a wan
which has only one public IP the entire wan is actually banned.
aptitude -t unstable install tor
What do you think?
But ya didn't hea
On Monday 20 December 2004 10:20 am, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > 01:39 PerfDave> macon: But the people who are less than entirely
> > friendly are also the people who are most helpful
and
> > knowlegeable. Which is why they get to be so snarky,
> > whe
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 14:13, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> This is what actually happened:
>
Hi all,
Since I both lurk on #debian and debian-user, I thought I would comment.
First off, irc is the wrong place to be asking questions. This is because
irc answers are lost after a couple of days but answer
On Monday 20 December 2004 10:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Actually, according to Debian's website (http://debian.org/support),
the=20
> > IRC channel is the Debian official IRC channel.
>
> No you are wrong it is not:
> http://www.debian.org/vote/2001/vote_0002
>
> QUOTE:
> 2. Problems
On Monday 20 December 2004 5:53 am, Kim wrote:
> Now since I found there was such a big difference I adressed the issue
> on the debian channel afterwards. Quickly a lot of people "pm" me and
> agreed. I only posted a couple of messages advicing people to maintain
> the freenode policy of helpf
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Kim wrote:
[...]
} I also consider the current channel as a very unhelpful channel and in
} many cases people who are trying debian for the first time goes there
} only to find a lot of insults if they don't understand at first or if
} they have missed t
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Kim wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Yesterday I was testing the new Fedora Core 3 and since I needed some
> information I connected to the fedora channel on irc.freenode.net. I
> also connected to the linux channel.
>
> In both these channels I asked a couple of q
This is what actually happened:
00:42 -!- macon [EMAIL PROTECTED] has joined #debian
01:24 macon> I have been using debian for about 4 years now, and I
always found that people on this channel is kindda "rude"
if one doesn't "it right away", tonight I was doing some
Hi All.
Yesterday I was testing the new Fedora Core 3 and since I needed some
information I connected to the fedora channel on irc.freenode.net. I
also connected to the linux channel.
In both these channels I asked a couple of questions and I quickly
discovered that people on the channel was ve
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