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#21 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 11:19 AM

On 2008-02-29, Two Ravens <two-ravens@operamail.org> wrote:
>
> Its not so much that people are feeding the 'Troll' its more that Tom
> N/Tom Newton is an idiot, who is 'advising' some who may be
> inexperienced enough to follow his so-called advice. Others are
> pointing out that not only is this idiots advice wrong, but in the case
> of his latest post, (vide the thread, "Re: $HOME variable gets lost
> when starting an X session"), using root as 'home', his so-called
> advice is diametrically opposed to what most reasonable people
> consider 'best practice'!

But other people are simply feeding ''Tom'', attempting a debate instead
of simply countering his awful advice. It is also considered best
practice to correct bad advice, get in a funny insult against ''Tom'',
and post without attempting to debate ''Tom'' directly.

--keith

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#22 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 11:19 AM

Keith Keller wrote:

> But other people are simply feeding ''Tom'', attempting a debate
> instead of simply countering his awful advice. *It is also considered
> best practice to correct bad advice, get in a funny insult against
> ''Tom'', and post without attempting to debate ''Tom'' directly.

You are of course correct, I do try to limit myself to one reply to Tom,
I do reply to others who may comment in the same thread however.

I will try very hard to limit myself to one reply to Tom's initial post
on whatever form of idiocy he is spouting in each thread. The great
temptation comes from his propensity to act like a very big, very slow,
and probably tasty, fish in a barrel.

My delay in replying is due to the fact that unlike Tom My computer only
has one keyboard and monitor, but more than one user, I had to wait my
turn to be "an ordinary user" let alone root. Shell - Konsole > su >
root password > shutdown -h now, you can try that one out on me Tom!
--
Two Ravens
"Tom Newton, surely the William Topaz McGonagall of
alt.os.linux.slackware, and now, seemingly, comp.os.linux.setup and
comp.os.linux.misc.as well!"

#23 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 11:19 AM

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Two Ravens wrote:

>
> Helmut Hullen wrote:
>
>> Tom is a troll - why do you feed it?
>
> Its not so much that people are feeding the 'Troll' its more that Tom
> N/Tom Newton is an idiot, who is 'advising' some who may be
> inexperienced enough to follow his so-called advice. Others are

Indeed as it should be pointed out he only 2 1/2 months ago claimed he was
very new to all this so n00bies should hardly want to listen to advice
from a netkook like that

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Cheers
Res

mysql> update auth set Framed-IP-Address='127.0.0.127' where user= 'troll';

#24 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 06:09 AM

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:13:38 +0000, Michael Black wrote:

> "mr.b" (mist@b.com) writes:
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:46:24 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-02-28, mr.b <mist@b.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:22:44 -0800, Tom Newton wrote:
>>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>> aahhhh... one of the best things about setting up a new system...
>>>>
>>>> *PLONK*
>>>>
>>>> all over again!
>>>
>>> You felt the need to announce this five days after ''Tom's'' original
>>> post?
>>>
>>> --keith
>>
>> well...since I've only just got around to setting up Pan on this box
>> tonight...yes...and it felt good dammit...stop trying to steal my joy
>> dammit...
>
> Was that one of the joys of a new system?
>
> I installed Slack 12 last July, but then kept using Slack 10. I
> realized I was never going to make the effort to fix up Slack 12 to my
> liking unless I actually made the transition, so I finally did.
>
> Which likely means Slack Next, be it 12.X or 13.0 should be along any
> day now.
>
> Michael

I think he should call it slackwit linux.

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