Fabian Steiner posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:46:49 +0100:
> Thank you very much indeed. This worked for me! Actually, I unmasked it > manually by adding it to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but something must > have gone wrong... Cool! =8^) Yes, sometimes things /do/ go wrong. However, I've come to realize that for me at least, the challenge of overcoming those occasional "gone wrongs" is a lot of what keeps me fascinated with computers. If it wasn't for that, computers would be about as fascinating as the UI on my freezer <g>, and I'd still be running the dual VCR (now likely upgraded to DVD and PVR) setup I had back in the early 90s, sitting like a bump on the chair zombified by the programming designed to cater to the most easily programmable to go out and buy what they see in the ads. (As many have observed, at least in the ad-supported market of the US, the audience isn't the customer, but the product. The customer is the ad industry which pays the bills. Thus, the programming is targeted at those most effectively programmed to buy what the ad industry is selling, so they will pay more for the ad slots the media industry serves. Effectively, therefore, the programming is targeted at those most easily impressed to go buy what they don't need, spending cash that they don't have by putting ever more on plastic, IOW, those that prefer not to have to think too much. No /wonder/ the programs seem so /stupid/ most of the time! I'll keep the challenge of the occasional "gone wrong" on the computer, thanks very much!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
