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From: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd120@gmail.com>
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On 9/1/06, soralx@cydem.org <soralx@cydem.org> wrote:
>
> > If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that?
> > You did: by putting the disc in.
>
> Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie.

Indeed, no.  And putting a CD-ROM in doesn't mean I want to mount it
or read it.  And putting in a memory stick doesn't mean I want to read it
either.  But, well over 99% of the time, these things are what I want to do.

If I want to do something else with the DVD, well, I close the movie player
and do something else.  But 99% of the time, I'm grateful for the time
it saves me.

Also, if I'm the type who only ever inserts DVDs to rip them or do other
nefarious things, I can always set up the system to *not* open the movie
player automatically.

But then most BSD users see things differently.  How does the system
know that I *want* /dev/ad1s2c mounted as /usr/local?  I may sometimes
want it mounted as /opt instead.  For maximum flexibility, boot in single
user mode with a ramdisk, and then mount all disks and start all services
by hand.

Rahul