A Linux USB keyboard/mouse question

cragos at gmail.com cragos at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 20:49:55 CDT 2007


By the way, flame wars = bad, and nobody can "hate" Illinois and their
noble residents, unless they drove through it over Labor Day this
year. Completely off-topic, but drove through my home state and
counted over a hundred highway patrolmen between St. Louis and
Chicago.

-Sean

On 9/22/07, cragos at gmail.com <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oi.
>
> Or I was using a colloquial expression that is not common in my
> distant home country of Illinois?
>
> Bigot. Bet you're voting Hilary too.
>
> /me ducks
>
> On 9/22/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Language/Logic Nazi Alert!  As people smart enough to make computers work
> > well, we have an obligation to not perpetuate stupid expressions.
> >
> > On 9/22/07, cragos at gmail.com <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, even that's not normally necessary. I've used some old Super
> > > 7 motherboards that required that be enabled to have the BIOS respond
> > > to the keyboard, but Linux could care less - it Just Worked.
> >
> > Please don't use the phrase "could care less".  Logically, if it could care
> > less, then it must care some.  And that's probably not what you're trying to
> > say.
> >
> > The phrase you're looking for is "couldn't care less", which is itself a
> > cliche, which may explain why people have felt the need to rework it.  If
> > you want to anthropomorphize the Linux kernel in this manner, simply say
> > "Linux doesn't care".
> >
> > Don't say someone is "head over heels" in love, because you aren't saying
> > anything special in noting that someone's head is over his heels.  Perhaps
> > "heels over head" evokes imagery too graphic for polite conversation; it
> > doesn't explain this illogical expression.
> >
> > While I'm at it,
> > a slash leans forward /
> > a BACKslash leans back \
> > It is not just a formal name for 'slash'. There are NO backslashes in
> > Uniform Resource Locators/Identifiers.
> >
> > The name for the little star * is "asterisk", (literally meaning "little
> > star") which is pronounced /as' tǝr isk/, not /as' tǝr ik/  or /as' tǝr
> > iks/.
> > A colon is one dot above another dot :
> > A semi-colon is a dot above a comma ;
> >
> > AND STAY OFF MY LAWN!
> >
>


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