[Gllug] TFT Monitors

[Nix]

On 11 Jan 2007, Peter Cannon said:

> On Thursday 11 January 2007 00:40, Nix wrote:
>
>> If he manages to do *that* and remain sane there are a lot of places
>> that might want to hire him, possibly after a course of psychological
>> rehabilitation.
>
> I see, so because you've not convinced me in respect of having a working 
> graphics card irrespective of the fact that the driver/module is tainting the 
> kernel your course of persuasion is to call into question my mental 
> stability?

WTF?

I was trying to state that your mental stability would be at risk if you
tried to debug problems on a kernel running binary modules.

Of course if you prefer to think that I think that you're already a
loony then you're welcome to think that (although I wouldn't recommend
it; my head is spinning just trying to say that).

> I don't normally take snipes personally insults are the last defence for a 
> desperate situation however having looked at the posts since Christmas I 
> notice predominantly your contributions are generally in the negative usually 

The posts since Christmas (until 2007-01-05) have been done over a
desperately slow and droppy modem line out in the Yorkshire sticks. I
don't dare write substantive posts from there: one sheep farting in the
wrong place and I'd lose the lot.

> I'm sorry you've taken some sort of dislike to me I've checked my posts and 

What? I haven't. I don't know you from Adam.

> don't see any personal slights against you (excluding, possibly, this mail) 
> other than ignoring your correct adhererance to the kernel rules which IMO is 

What `rules'? They're not `rules' as such. It's just that if you want to
use a binary module, you should note that it is risky, in considerable
part because it *does* reduce kernel stability and because when you
report a bug, the kernel developers will of their own free will tell you
to go away and unload the binary module before they can do anything.

If this is a `rule' then I can name several billion other similar
`rules', starting with `do not eat live coals'. Nobody has to be told
not to do that. They just choose of their own free will not to do it
when given the choice.

> irrelevant so long as my card works I know you disagree so there it is.

Arjan van de Ven has already shown the long-term consequences of this:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/354704>.

(The attitude to binary modules among kernel developers is hardening
fast. It used to be laissez-faire, more or less. This is most definitely
no longer the case. Arjan's post should give you a good idea why.)

-- 
`He accused the FSF of being "something of a hypocrit", which
 shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.'
   --- jimmybgood
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