From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente" <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:35:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb4c8d190705111535u108b4ee4ta9247223d005ad4c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16ef1735a4e044af3d1bc05bdc68eaa1@proxima.alt.za>
I am gona put the face to those XXXX, lucio.
I am not looking for fame, I am looking to get some hardware working.
The system didn't have those drivers, so I googled, I asked and
perhaps I asked the wrong place.
Ok...Starting several projects, even if they are already done, has
tought very interesting and cool things :D But sometimes you can start
to think about something else if you can stop worrying about your sata
drive, your vga card and your network card. I don't like the sensation
of starting something and then, some time after that, getting a
message saying "well I did that last eon"...
Probably I asked in the wrong places in the beginning. I've noticed
that many members of this community do not use IRC.
Everybody is free to do whatever suits with their code. I find
sources/contrib a good thing, but I have also noticed that there are
things missing there. Someone looks for a driver, the driver isn't
there... Then looks in 9fans... Ask in irc.. Nobody answers... Until
you are facing some problem and ask, a couple of weeks before... It is
magic, someone had done that before...
All I want... Is world peace, universal love and no child never ever
left behind.
Bah, It doesn't matter anymore... It is just that I don't feel useful
if someone else tells me that has done my work a long time ago... It
is like blowing in a pinholed baloon... It will never grow.
I am sorry If my complaint offends someone.
Cheers!
On 5/11/07, lucio@proxima.alt.za <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > 12:05 < XXXX> I find quite frustrating to start a project that is
> > already done...
>
> Rather than pleased that something wanted is already available?
> Please spare me the whinging and rather admit, both of you here, that
> Plan 9 is not ripe for those who seek to stand on the shoulders of
> giants, not to see further, but to be noticed from a distance.
>
> > 12:05 < XXXX> To look for a driver that is already there...
> > 12:05 < XXXX> To have an idea that someone else is doing...
>
> Asking tends to solicit replies. Is it our fault that we aren't
> exactly interested in using IRC?
>
> > 12:06 * XXXX grrrrsss and rants...
> > 12:06 < uriel> talking about 9fans?
> > 12:06 < XXXX> Of course.
> > 12:11 < XXXX> [sources/contrib] is great, as long as people put their
> > work there...
> > 12:11 < XXXX> And an INDEX...
>
> No one has ever stopped anyone from setting up a CVS repository or
> anything else that might be more useful than sources. But the reality
> is that Uriel and colleagues are looking for a platform for fame and
> fortune. Sadly, Plan 9 is not "American Idol" and those who really do
> contribute are concentrating on their tasks instead of, as Uriel would
> like, on making Plan 9 leave up to popularistic expectations.
>
> My take: "thank fuck!"
>
> ++L
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 8:34 Antonin
2007-05-10 12:14 ` Antonin
2007-05-10 12:25 ` Federico Benavento
2007-05-10 13:33 ` Antonin
2007-05-10 13:45 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-05-10 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-10 14:35 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-05-10 15:18 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-05-10 13:46 ` C H Forsyth
2007-05-10 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-10 14:15 ` C H Forsyth
2007-05-10 15:59 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-05-10 19:26 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 3:57 ` Vester Thacker
2007-05-11 4:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-05-11 4:50 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-05-11 10:30 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-05-11 11:58 ` Steve Simon
2007-05-11 4:42 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 4:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-05-11 5:13 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 5:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-05-11 5:48 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 6:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-05-11 6:28 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 17:35 ` lucio
2007-05-11 19:24 ` Uriel
2007-05-11 19:52 ` lucio
2007-05-11 20:05 ` lucio
2007-05-11 22:35 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente [this message]
2007-05-12 4:11 ` lucio
2007-05-12 4:13 ` lucio
2007-05-12 0:43 ` Tom Lieber
2007-05-12 4:34 ` lucio
2007-05-17 9:50 ` Dave Lukes
2007-05-17 10:23 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-17 11:25 ` matt
2007-05-17 11:52 ` Dave Lukes
2007-05-17 11:59 ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-17 13:04 ` W B Hacker
2007-05-17 17:53 ` lucio
2007-05-11 11:37 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-11 14:57 ` Paul Lalonde
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