Re: Debian sucks // Ion may become (DFSG-) "non-free"

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:56:39 -0000, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2007-03-07 08:21 -0000, John Robson wrote:
>> I don't like xinerama therefore:
> ... I am not going to waste my breath supporting it.

in itself a fair excuse for not supporting it, but not a good reason to  
tell anyone with more than one monitor that they're stupid.

--8<--
>                                                 So, there,
> you techno-toy fetists chasing after the latest cool gizmo
> and upgrading your hardware every few months
--8<--

Actually I have had my current pair of monitors for 5 years - the pair I  
had before that are now in use at church office (pastor and secretary),  
having now had a useful life of around 10 years and counting*. My graphics  
card is about 7 years old, the rest of the machine ~4 I think (with no  
immediate plans to upgrade)

I don't think I count as a "techno-toy fetishist", just someone who can  
see more than the <1 steradian occupied by a single screen at a sensible  
distance in front of me**.


John

* Actually as I had one of them for a couple of years before the other  
that's proably an aggregate of 11 years - I used my old 14"CRT with the  
shiny 17" CRT for a good while - the 14" screen still finds itself stuck  
in my loft for occasional use.

** Have you read the "anti-mac" interface article  
(http://acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm) - basically decrying WIMP  
interfaces as a regression in terms of limiting us to pointing and  
grunting at things we can see.  I feel the same about having to wear  
blinkers when I'm working, why did I bother with eyes that can see a  
decent space in front of me?