Do not appreciate the implication that I am "pathetic."

[Bob Elzer]

You can hear the tone in his voice by reading text ?????  Wow you have some
super human abilities, you should be on that show Heroes.

What tone, did I just use ?

My take from his message, was he thought the linux distro you are running
was pathetic, not you.

But you have never told us what disto this is, wouldn't that help us help
you.

If this were a system on the internet then people would tell you that not
updating the system leaves it open to all sorts of vulnerabilities.

But if you have legacy stuff that for some reason won't run on today's stuff
then you have no choice, but I'll bet if you told us what those things are,
we would try to help you update them so you could do updates.

:-)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Josef
Lowder
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 5:06 PM
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: OT: Do not appreciate the implication that I am "pathetic."

Craig White wrote:
> I can't quite figure out if this is an indictment on all Linux in 
> general or the specific distribution that he uses but this is pathetic.
>
> If the distribution you choose to use breaks because you update, you 
> need to find a different one...period, end of discussion.

Craig, your comment in response to my question seeking assistance regarding
'scp' is not only unhelpful, but it conveys an implication that I am (in
your opinion) "pathetic" because of my choice (and
necessity) to keep this one computer (of the six different computer systems
that I use) unchanged.  It is not possible to safely update this particular
computer.

This "old reliable" system is the one on which I do much of my work because
it incorporates a configuration and capabilities that are no longer
available and cannot be replicated.  Rather than being "pathetic," it is
actually remarkable that this old system has proved to be the *most*
rock-solid reliable of all of my systems.  It has been running 24/7 for more
than 4 years.  It is never shut down except for power outages and vacations.
And, praise God, I have *never* had a system failure or need to reboot.
This current issue with scp seems to have occurred because I changed routers
as became necessary to get a faster DSL speed.  I had not needed 'scp' since
that change until recently, and I have now learned that it was apparently
because of enabling "IP Passthrough" that the inet address got messed up and
I have not been able to get it restored.

Craig, you have sometimes offered some helpful suggestions on various issues
in the past (although often with a rather abrupt tone). However this kind of
belittling ridicule is definitely not helpful. It is so much more helpful
when comments are of a more positive and constructive nature and tone.
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