Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Alan Cox has been one of the most senior Linux developers. He also
seems to speak fairly carefully in public email. You may find his
statements hard to interpret (oracular) but they are likely correct.
His answers are usually right on, at least relating to the kernel. But
with status also comes the lack of freedom to express one's self as
anyone else can on a list. I could not believe the "don't talk about us
Americans like that" response from an earlier posting. Just let him talk
freely and good and accurate advice with a mix of humor added will come
our way.
Karl thinks gnome-volume-manager controls audio volume instead of
controlling mounting of things like removable media. Several people
have pointed this out to him. This is the bad advice he is talking
about.
volume = sound level, a section of a publication an many more meanings
which lead the word to be in the class of whatchamacallit in regard to
its descriptive meaning. Gnome-storage-manager would probably be a
better choice for a media storage manager.
I myself assumed volume manager was in reference to sound management
until I ran rpm -q --info. Still the crying about someone gave me bad
advice is not needed when references are not clearly included with the
response.
Mikkel
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A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to
govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures
on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins
itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and
manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
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