Further adventures in Firewall upgrades

[Eric Rossiter]

DCT Jared Smith wrote:
> 
> <rant>
> Actually, "further frustrations to follow" is going to frustrate
> me, if you post it. Go ahead and post, but can I recommend
> that we conserve bandwidth dedicated to complaining, and
> use it to make things better? All you're doing is boasting about
> how cool you are for remembering the days when Linux could
> fit on a floppy disk. Well I'm bored, because this is no way to make
> Linux better. I'm not a kernel hacker so I can't do much about
> the problems you're pointing out, but I can wish you'd write
> about solutions instead of problems. Grump grump grump. I'm
> sick and tired of people who are sick and tired. I'm personally
> disgusted by the willingness of even oldtime Linux advocates to
> turn and rend their own, as if Linux has 'sold out' when only they
> actually have. Remember when you used to see these same
> problems, and put the 90+ hours into learning how .conf files
> worked, and never complain a minute because you were learning?
> Well all you're saying below is that you've grown weary of
> learning.  For heaven's sake, I walk uphill both ways in the
> snow, too. If we've got work to do in Linux, it's fdisking this
> whole layer of people who think they're gurus, when all they
> do is sit around and grump. Grump. Grump. True gurus enjoy
> what they do.
> 
> This is the downside of building an OS which is Anti-Microsoft.
> 
> What a lame foundation to justify an OS. If you hate Microsoft,
> as nearly every Linux user I've ever met does, then all you do
> is turn and rend your own project as soon as Microsoft is beaten,
> because you have no way to slow the momentum of criticizing,
> criticizing, criticizing. When, oh, when, will Linux advocates
> advocate by our strengths, rather than by M$ weaknesses?
> 
> In other words, "are you getting paid by M$ to spam the LUG
> list with complaints about Linux?" Now I know you're not, but,
> jeez, you might as well be.
> 
> </rant>
> 
> -Jared
> 

Far out, man.

Nice rant.  8-)

Eric