On Jan 21, 2008 8:35 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > Here is how I think answers to questions should look like. > > ... snip ... > > > Question: How can I get the driver for my nVidia video card? > > > > Answer: This is a two step procedure. ... > > or, as an alternative, rather than continually polluting this list > with badly-written advice that almost never works, you can try > something wild and crazy and start a blog, like this guy just > announced, and post the info there: > > http://totallybeginner.blogspot.com/2008/01/installing-nvidia-and-ati-cards-in.html > > where the aforementioned beginner even recognizes the value of other > peoples' work and simply links to a detailed write-up of how to do it > properly, including contingency plans for when something doesn't quite > work and ... and ... oh, screw it, why do i bother, since every > conversation with karl ends up as: > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/143296774_97691615cb.jpg > > is it too early for a beer? Sadly, Karl is one of those people who is too clueless to realize how clueless he really is. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org
