Jey Kottalam wrote: > On 7/12/07, Alan Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> White on black text, which I have to manually set my X-term for every >> time I open a fucking window on Linux is the best compromise available >> for such crippled systems. =( > [Off Topic] > Sounds more like a crippled user than a crippled system. I just set > the default color in my ~/.Xdefaults file. Fuck you, jackass. I have not flamed anyone in years, and I when I have, I always took it offlist. You, sir, deserve it richly and in public. I am furious at you and everything you stand for. I hate your aditude, I hate your smug presumption that it is my fault for not knowing information that is essentially inaccessible to me. I hate every software developer who expects the user to spend what amounts to his entire life searching for this kind of shit. The worst thing about unix advocates is that they think Unix is better than DOS. It is not. If Unix was better than DOS then everything except the most trivial of utilities would be fully interactive and user friendly. If unix was better than DOS, than most unix console text editors would be mouse-enabled!!! If unix was better than DOS, Every program would have a comprehensive on-line help system or be so self-evident as to not need one. If unix was better than DOS, Configuration files would always be present and never hidden. I have been using my unix system for three and a half years and I do not have a ~/.Xdefaults file. If unix was better than DOS, the default help system would allow you to search within a help-file for keywords or arbitrary text. -- not to mention being fully indexed and searchable. ;) If Unix were better than DOS, then the system defaults would be almost identical to what you would want to customize it to. =P As it turns out, .Xdefaults is only mentioned once in the fucking manpage and then only in passing. The options you describe, ARE NOT MENTIONED IN THE FUCKING MANUAL AT ALL!!! XTERM HAS NO ON-LINE HELP, SO THEREFORE IT IS HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO KNOW THAT THOSE FUCKING OPTIONS EVEN FUCKING EXIST!!!! There is one fundamental truth that needs to be beaten into your skull with a 2x4, -- THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CRIPPLED USER -- 99% OF THE TIME IT IS THE SYSTEM NOT THE USER, AND 99% OF THE TIME, IT'S THE SOFTWARE NOT THE HARDWARE. Have a look at this: ################################ Search Results for '.Xdefaults': Top-Level Documentation Application Manuals Htdig error: Unable to read document database file '/home/atg/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.docdb' Did you run htdig? UNIX manual pages [nothing] ################################# Read it and weep!!!!!! I mean _CRY_. How the fuck am I supposed to know what to put in a .Xdefaults file when there is no fucking manpage to tell me how to fucking do it. Wait a minute, I just actually read that, DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN TO SAY THAT I NEED TO RUN AN OBSCURE COMMAND-LINE UTILITY IN ORDER TO MAKE THE HELP SYSTEM WORK??? I just tried said program and it appeared to stall waiting for input... I couldn't make it do anything useful. the manpage was, as usual, written in moonspeak... Nothing in it told me what I was supposed to do to make khelpcenter work. =( If Unix were even a tenth as good as DOS, it would set up these files for me and WALK ME THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CUSTOMIZING THEM... Want evidence? I can show you a copy of DOS which does exactly that when you install it! Actually, I have not used that installer for half a decade because DOS never fails and a DOS installation can simply be copied from HD to HD and still remain perfectly functional and absolutely reliable. Unix is several orders of magnitude too complex to be absolutely reliable. Truly, I wish I could sit everyone in the world down at a computer, ask them to load a text editor, and then immediately execute everyone who opened vi or any of its variants. =| Two years later, computers would be a thousand times easier to use! If I ever meet you in real life, I'll kill you on the spot with my bear hands! The last company to even show an effort at making a usable Operating system was BeInc. =( Want to know the truth? I've given up on computers. I no longer want to program them, I don't want to write an operating system, I don't even want to use them all that much. As long as I can keep using my web-browser and e-mail client I'm not even going to try to change anything on my computer for fear of breaking it in such a way that I would not be able to use either my web-browser or my e-mail client. Five years of painful unix experience has taught me not to try to do anything at all with the system which there isn't a pre-made script for. My most recent change to the system was to try to install a better video card, I was off-line for the better part of six hours trying to get X-windows to load again. Unix has no redeeming qualities. It is not worth another minute of my time. Then, I get on-line and am confronted by motherfuckers such as yourself who have the audacity to blame the user for the failings of a spectacularly awful system. If I am interpolating correctly from this kind of aditude, and what the uploaders have been spewing about, life as an upload will be a million million times worse than it is today and that most uploads will die accidentally by changing a config file in such a way as to cause their own malfunction. Where's the send button... -- Opera: Sing it loud! :o( )>-< ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=22057695-7de0d5
