Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread can you guess?
... > I should know better than to reply to a troll, So which is it, Rich? Do you 'know better' but lack even minimal self-control, or do you, however dimly, recognize that there's actually a difference between 'trolling' and legitimate criticism (and are you so scared of the latter that you'

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Tim Cook
You've been trolling from the get-go and continue to do so. First it's "I have the magical fix", which wasn't a fix at all. You claim to want to better the project, then claim you can't be bothered because you don't really care. You rant and rave about how this is so much like wafl from a tech

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread can you guess?
> You've been trolling from the get-go and continue to > do so. Y'know, cookie, before letting the drool onto your keyboard you really ought to learn to research it. I said a good deal of what I've said recently well over a year ago here (and in fact had forgotten how much detail I went into ba

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Tim Cook
The only sad part is it's clear one or two people were fooled into believe there's any merit to your trolling. Grow up. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread can you guess?
Ah - no references to back up your drivel, I see. No surprise there, of course - but thanks for playing. - bill This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Tim Cook
Big talk from someone who seems so intent on hiding their credentials. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread can you guess?
> Big talk from someone who seems so intent on hiding > their credentials. Say, what? Not that credentials mean much to me since I evaluate people on their actual merit, but I've not been shy about who I am (when I responded 'can you guess?' in registering after giving billtodd as my member nam

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Dickon Hood
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:15:25 -0800, can you guess? wrote: : > Big talk from someone who seems so intent on hiding : > their credentials. : Say, what? Not that credentials mean much to me since I evaluate people : on their actual merit, but I've not been shy about who I am (when I : responded

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18-Nov-07, at 7:30 PM, Dickon Hood wrote: > ... > : If you're still referring to your incompetent alleged research, > [...] > : [...] right out of the > : same orifice from which you've pulled the rest of your crap. > > It's language like that that is causing the problem. IMHO you're > be

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread Anton B. Rang
Hint: Bill was already writing file system code when I was in elementary school. ;-) Seriously...it's rather sad to see serious and useful discussions derailed by thin skins and zealotry. Bill's kind enough to share some of his real-world experience and observations in the old tradition of sen

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-18 Thread michael schuster
Anton B. Rang wrote: > Hint: Bill was already writing file system code when I was in elementary > school. ;-) > > Seriously...it's rather sad to see serious and useful discussions > derailed by thin skins and zealotry. Bill's kind enough to share some of > his real-world experience and observatio

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-19 Thread can you guess?
> OTOH, when someone whom I don't know comes across as > a pushover, he loses > credibility. It may come as a shock to you, but some people couldn't care less about those who assess 'credibility' on the basis of form rather than on the basis of content - which means that you can either lose out

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and

2007-11-19 Thread can you guess?
> : > Big talk from someone who seems so intent on hiding > : > their credentials. > > : Say, what? Not that credentials mean much to me since I evaluate people > : on their actual merit, but I've not been shy about who I am (when I > : responded 'can you guess?' in registering after giving billt

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS

2007-11-17 Thread can you guess?
> > I've been observing two threads on zfs-discuss with > the following > Subject lines: > > Yager on ZFS > ZFS + DB + "fragments" > > and have reached the rather obvious conclusion that > the author "can > you guess?" is a professional spinmeister, Ah - I see we have another incompetent psyc

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS

2007-11-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, can you guess? wrote: > Ah - I see we have another incompetent psychic chiming in - and > judging by his drivel below a technical incompetent as well. While I > really can't help him with the former area, I can at least try to > educate him in the latter. I should know bette

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS

2007-11-17 Thread Tim Spriggs
Rich Teer wrote: > I should know better than to reply to a troll, but I can't let this > personal attack stand. I know Al, and I can tell you for a fact that > he is *far* from "technically incompentent". > > Judging from the length of your diatribe (which I didn't bother reading), > you seem to

[zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS + DB + "fragments"

2007-11-16 Thread Al Hopper
I've been observing two threads on zfs-discuss with the following Subject lines: Yager on ZFS ZFS + DB + "fragments" and have reached the rather obvious conclusion that the author "can you guess?" is a professional spinmeister, who gave up a promising career in political speech writing, to ha