Screen Display, Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:39:56PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> >From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Jay Ashworth shouted:
> > [ redirected back to list ]
> > 
> > I suspect a rousing chorus of "you should get someone who is to do
> > that for you" is in order here; what'cha think, folks?
> 
> While I technically agree she should probably hire someone in-house or at
> least contract someone to manage the linux system (that's assuming she's in
> charge of it currently and wasn't just assigned one issue to fix, which is
> entirely possible)--I don't think it was particularly good form to forward
> it back to the list the way you did, Jay.

She didn't ask me not to; and it's usually considered bad form to take
such questions off-list -- on most of the lists I'm on -- depriving
those looking through the archives of the answer when the person
providing it commonly charges for the service.

> If I were her, I'd be pretty miffed at you, honestly.  That was pretty
> brutal.  I mean, you could have just told her the same thing privately and
> referred her back to the list--not shoved her back forceably in relative
> public embarrassment.  We're both known for being more than blunt, but that
> crosses the line on my definition of treating someone civilly.  I may have
> an odd definition of doing so at times, but -if- I were going to make a
> public comment like that, their comment would have had to have been public
> first.  That display wasn't even good ettiquette, man.

Clearly, Rick Moen has rubbed off on me a bit too much.

> I'll chalk it up to it being a bad Monday and just move along now.

No; bad Sunday; I was out of bed for maybe as much as an hour
yesterday; you don't want me to itemize what I spend that time doing.

And yes, it's leaked over.  Apologies.

Cheers,
-- jra
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