It Works fine

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Quoting Jeff Krebs <jkrebs at tconl.com>:
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>> * Karl Larsen (k5di at zianet.com) wrote:
>>>    After so many problems seen day after day it is nice I think to hear
>>> about a success.
>>>
>>> F8 was installed from a DVD and came right up with a video problem 
>>> cuzz I
>>> have a Nvidia video card. Fixed in 5 minutes with Nvidia binary. 
>>> Then audio
>>> problems and found pulse audio the problem. I was told to yum remove 
>>> and I
>>> did and audio is fine again.
>>>
>>>    I have had all the updates and they appear to be real Updates! So 
>>> today
>>> December 10 2007 my F8 is working just fine. I have just one problem. I
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>> I will mark this down on my calendar, and ensure that it's engraved in
>> stone to pass down to historians.  Such a feat was certainly unthinkable
>> :)
>>
>>> seem to have a rootkit somewhere in the /home/karl/ directories. I 
>>> have RTK
>>> and this afternoon I plan to find the thing, or discover I have no 
>>> rootkit
>>> but rather another kind of problem.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>
>> How do you know that you have a root kit?
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> and while we're here, karl, do you remember how, really recently, i 
> suggested that it would be polite and courteous to everyone else on 
> this list (not to mention more meaningful) if your subject lines were 
> more informative than, say, "It Works fine"?
>
> seriously, karl, do you remember me encouraging you to do something 
> about that?  and yet, here we are.  so i have an absolutely 
> dead-serious question -- why didn't you take that advice?  is is that 
> you don't think there's any value to carefully-chosen subjects?  or do 
> you agree that there is, but you just don't feel like putting in the 
> effort because you have so little respect for all of the members of 
> this list that you just don't care?
>
> really, karl, those are your only two choices, and i'm curious about 
> which one applies here.  can you answer this question without 
> impugning my character, or my technical competence, or my nationality? 
>  because, sincerely, i want to know.  i want to know why, despite 
> numerous people on this list constantly giving you advice on how to be 
> a better list member, you simply never take that advice.  and it's 
> either because you don't understand it, or you do understand it but 
> you just don't care.
>
> so which is it, karl?  just call me curious.
>
> rday
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What is wrong with the subject? You dislike good news?


Karl


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