From: "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <kernel@blackhole.compendium-tech.com>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner@spectacle-pond.org>,
"'linux-scsi @ vger . kernel . org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-kernel @ vger . kernel . org'"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:05:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101161601110.17397-100000@sol.compendium-tech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010117003205.A711@werewolf.able.es>
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and that user will never
> use them. The average user you are targetting says: 'daddy, buy me a PC to
> run Quake and do my school jobs' or 'please, dear vendor, I want a PC to
> do my housekeeping'. I have seen so many cases (A buys PC, A tries to run
> brand new racing game that does not work, A goes shop and says: don't know
> what's wrong with this PC, look at it and call me when MyCarRacingGame
> works...).
Yup. Dummies dont need things to be done for them; they need to learn how
to do it themselves. That, IMO, is the beauty of UNIX. Nothing is sugar
coated, and almost everything gets back down to the K.I.S.S. approach.
> Average users you are targetting with that automagical
> card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just
> want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI
> and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some docs and
> rebuild a kernel.
Amen! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com
Software Engineer
Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771
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Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-16 16:43 Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 20:01 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-01-16 20:37 ` Michael Meissner
2001-01-16 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-16 21:23 ` Michael Meissner
2001-01-16 23:32 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-01-17 0:05 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson [this message]
2001-01-17 0:42 ` Michael Meissner
2001-01-17 2:14 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-17 17:22 ` Michael Meissner
2001-01-17 18:41 ` Douglas Gilbert
2001-01-17 9:45 ` Ishikawa
2001-01-17 15:45 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-01-16 23:51 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-01-17 19:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-17 20:32 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-17 20:46 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-17 21:26 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-18 16:55 David Balazic
2001-01-18 19:49 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-18 16:36 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-18 11:01 David Balazic
2001-01-18 11:35 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-18 13:01 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-01-18 14:03 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-17 11:04 David Balazic
2001-01-17 10:56 David Balazic
2001-01-17 10:48 David Balazic
2001-01-17 23:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-18 10:14 ` David Balazic
2001-01-17 10:21 David Balazic
2001-01-17 10:28 ` Boszormenyi Zoltan
2001-01-16 22:54 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 20:35 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 20:14 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 20:30 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-01-16 21:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-17 15:33 ` Mike Porter
2001-01-17 16:16 ` James Bottomley
2001-01-17 17:07 ` Craig Ruff
2001-01-18 12:50 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-18 17:59 ` idalton
2001-01-18 18:14 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-18 20:53 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-18 22:55 ` David Weinehall
2001-01-16 17:39 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 17:58 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-16 21:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-17 9:38 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-17 9:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-01-17 10:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-17 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-19 1:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-17 10:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-17 23:19 ` Russell King
2001-01-17 19:50 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-17 20:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-18 0:14 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-18 0:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-18 0:59 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-18 9:41 ` Helge Hafting
2001-01-16 17:30 Bryan Henderson
2001-01-16 17:04 David Balazic
[not found] <Venkateshr@ami.com>
2001-01-16 16:56 ` Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 19:52 ` John Summerfield
2001-01-16 16:51 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 17:09 ` Honza Pazdziora
2001-01-16 16:46 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 16:35 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 17:04 ` Brian Gerst
2001-01-16 17:24 ` Eddie Williams
2001-01-16 18:22 ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-16 19:18 ` Matthew D. Pitts
2001-01-16 19:54 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-01-16 21:04 ` Timur Tabi
2001-01-16 22:51 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-16 16:31 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 16:53 ` Eddie Williams
2001-01-16 19:48 ` John Summerfield
2001-01-16 16:19 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 16:23 ` Florent Cueto
2001-01-16 16:31 ` Brian Gerst
2001-01-16 16:40 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-01-16 15:49 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-16 16:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-16 16:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-01-16 16:40 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-16 16:45 ` Douglas Gilbert
2001-01-16 17:38 ` Malahal Rao Naineni
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