Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:04:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. Message-ID: <199710130104.SAA04724@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971012202653.14368B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Oct 12, 97 08:39:46 pm
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> > No, I check it if I have unexplained problems. Besides, I learned to > > read the significant stuff scrolling at 19.2 a long time ago... 8-). > > Which means you don't fix things until _after_ you've had > unexplained problems... I tried it the other way, but it just didn't work out; everyone called it "research" for some reason. 8-) 8-). > Regardless of wether I have a case or not (I happen to think that > in the specific instance I do -- someone brand new to the OS > should assume that things going wrong are their fault and not the > result of an `internally inconsistent' OS) little Johnny is still > not going to benefit from a thousand or so "disabled, not probed" > messages. > > Hm. Come to think of it, Johnny might not be aware of the dmesg > command or scrollback capabilities, making it all the more > important that only truly relevent information is spewed forth at > him. I think "Little Johnny" will be more interested in a login prompt than if his probe messages say "disabled" or whatever... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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