Cargo Cult sysadmining

[Dave Ihnat]

Once, long ago--actually, on Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:22:45PM -0700--Joe Zeff (joe at zeff.us) said:
> On 08/07/2012 01:05 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> I still remember when configuring X included selecting by hand the
> proper driver for your card, and how badly things would fsck
> themselves up if you had the wrong one.

OH, yeah.  That really stopped me from pointing neocluebies to Linux at
the time.

> After reconfiguring with the proper driver, I sent a nice little
> email to the maintainer, letting him know about the error.

Uh-oh.

> What I got back was an arrogant snotty-gram telling me that he's the
> one who wrote the driver and he knows that it works with my card.  I
> replied, telling him ...
> ...He shut up and stopped arguing.

You were lucky.  I'm dead certain he didn't agree, but at least he shut up.
It's a lot nastier when they really want to argue.

> The point of this, if there is one, is that things are much better
> now than they were back in the Second Millennium, and nobody in
> their right mind would want to go back.

I'm from Waaay Back.  I don't miss the Good Old Days one bit.

Cheers,
--
	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com