Re: Soft ejects
I agree completely.
Sean
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
>
> Fish Smith <dyson_sphere_explorer@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my
> > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is
> > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be
> > making those decisions because the machine is
> > unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the
> > user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance.
> (and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... )
> > Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea,
> > and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word
> > exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They
> > ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system
> > that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent
> > decisions) and instead makes them for you.
>
> Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many
> times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to
> talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to
> come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then,
> like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about
> that.)
>
> > Unlike many others, I don't share the view that "linux
> > needs to be made more newbie friendly." Doing that
> > will kill everything that made it great, and turn it
> > into another Windoze.
>
> I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the
> console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the
> system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time.
>
> > I don't care if the entire
> > world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have
> > them to get my work done.
>
> But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux
> wouldn't have developped as much as they do now.
>
> > If somebody doesn't
> > understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but
> > if they don't want to tolerate a system with a
> > learning curve then they don't have to use it, and
> > probably don't deserve to. Leave this domain to those
> > of us who do care to learn.
>
> I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering
> whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer
> involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you
> are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those
> commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?)
>
> > There are times in Word when
> > I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it
> > doesn't think I should. This is precisely the reason
> > we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software
> > always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is.
> > So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our
> > alternatives, please.
>
> (Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can
> be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by
> default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too.
>
> I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who
> is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be
> allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or
> unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other
> 'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me
> -- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts)
> more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on.
>
> Greetings,
> joachim
>
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