Dear Charlie,
After monitoring this list for about a year
and a half now, I think (as I'm sure MANY others do as well) that's it's time
for you to get down off your homemade pedestal and stop being such a
self-imposed JERK.
You are no doubt an excellent coder, but
that doesn't mean everyone else has to be, too. Otherwise, the only need
for this list would be to inflate some already over-inflated egos. We
all have our areas of expertise, while in other areas we depend on someone
else's. When done in a manner of genuine community spirit, not only
do great things happen, but we can enjoy doing them, too.
I'm sorry if you've had a bad day, but
really . . . with your knowledge and expertise . . . there is no excuse for such
poor email, or any other kind of, etiquette and common courtesy.
You will probably have a snide and clever
comeback, but might I suggest, that if you truly want to be the "mentor/teacher"
of this list, that you will simply accept this as constructive criticism . . .
silently; and remember it the next time you respond to someone less "gifted"
than yourself. We could learn a lot from you . . . if you would only
let us.
Shalom
Self-imposed ignoramus and
peacemaker
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: welcome message
At 4:39 PM -0400 7/29/02, Anne Judge is rumored to have
typed:
> I had this problem when I started with
Smartlist
It is NOT a "problem." It is a misunderstanding
on the part of the user as
to how to alter the specific file in question on
a list-specific basis. It is
operating EXACTLY as designed, and so cannot
be a "problem."
(Sorry, but it's annoying to hear someone
who admits they don't want to
bother learning how things work assume
there's a problem where none exists,
simply BECAUSE of their self-imposed
ignorance.)
> and I didn't use the
> unix delinking to fix the
problem.
I'm afraid you DID use "unix delinking." (For the
record here, there is no
unix delink command, there is rather a shell
script included with SmartList
that, "Gracefully disconnects a hardlinked
file." You might want to read it
to see what it does...I think you'll be
surprised. Feel free to FTP it into
your machine and use SimpleText to read
it...wouldn't want to learn cat,
right?)
> I just deleted the
subscribe.txt
> file, then uploaded (via ftp) to each list's directory
on the server
> the new subscribe.txt file I'd composed for that list on
my home machine.
Which does, of course, delink the file
data from the directory. A "link"
is a pointer to an area on the hard drive
telling the machine where the
requested data resides. If you delete a file,
you really don't "delete"
anything (that is, you don't remove any of the
data within the file), you
just destroy the pointer to the hard drive
sectors. That _IS_ delinking.
The "hard" links that
SmartList creates are just seperate pointers to the
same place on the hard
drive, so the same data has multiuple pointers.
Whether you specifically
use the .bin/delink command, or delete the file, you
ARE delinking the
file. You aren't using an "alternate method" at all.
> I didn't want
to get into learning the whole unix thing - that's what
> I have a
husband to handle
(*sigh*)
> plus I don't have
to spend time
> looking up unix commands which I don't use frequently
enough to
> actually memorize.
Again, it isn't a
unix command, it's a SmartList tool.
And, to be blunt, if
you're going to run SmartList, you should have a clue
about the underlying
operating system. If you seriously don't want to bother
wasting time
understanding a little bit about the OS and SmartList, might I
suggest
YahooGroups?
Charlie
(who wonders if you would, using the Mac, seriously
suggest
you don't need to learn how to use the
mouse...)
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