A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?

Fafa Hafiz Krantz fteg at london.com
Wed May 11 02:48:31 PDT 2005


Clifton!

I've never read a better e-mail.

Thank you for your words, wise man.
I've been inspired now.

:)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr at tikitechnologies.com>
To: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg at london.com>
Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:23:52 -1000

> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:18:36PM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
> ...
> > Real memory  = 100663296 (96 MB)
> > Available memory = 93036544 (88 MB)
> >
> > Doesn't.
> >
> > > As you suggested, I compared these with diff, ignoring the gratuitous
> > > spacing modification using "diff -b".
> > > > In the end, I don't think I can consider even one of your changes to
> > > be an improvement.  The closest you came to a useful change was the
> > > capitalisation of "Real memory", but that's hardly necessary, and
> > > the accompanying change to the next line upsets the formatting.
> >
> > Ofcourse it doesn't improve the functionality.
> > And I get the feeling that's what you're all about.
> 
>    Indeed, you understand correctly.  Functionality is exactly what the
> BSD family of OSs is all about.
> 
>    Most kernel developers are busy with activities like improving system
> performance on multi-CPU systems, increasing OS reliability with SATA
> drives, and other activities of a deep and essential nature.  I don't
> generally tell the kernel developers what to do, because I know that
> they know their own knowledge domain far better than I do.
> 
> [...]
> > > In short, I think you should find some other way to pretty up your FreeBSD
> > > boot.  As suggested earlier, try "man splash".
> >
> > Again, I want it to look correct.
> 
>    The appearance is a matter of personal taste, and "de gustibus non
> disputandum." Your claim that your personal preference is "correct"
> does not cause other people to prefer it.
> 
>    It should be clear by now that you are getting nowhere trying to
> persuade others to implement this for you, so your only course is to
> implement it yourself.  If these changes matter a great deal to you, I
> suggest you invest the sweat to change it on your own system.  You have
> all the sources, you have the power.  If you don't know how yet, you
> have the opportunity to learn.  If you succeed and post public patches
> to do it, then others can share the changes if they wish, and you will
> get some smidgen of positive recognition and credibility.
> 
>    If this matters so much to you, it should be worth your effort.
> 
>    If you are incapable of making these changes, then your preferences
> will get some smidgin less weight, as there will be that much less
> evidence that your opinions should be valued.  The open source world is
> largely a meritocracy and technocracy; this is not to say that
> "politics" and opinions play no part, but generally speaking "working
> code wins."
> 
>    Mostly people in the OSS world take it for granted that others
> understand this, which may be why nobody has told you this in so many
> words before now.
> 
>    -- Clifton
> 
> --
>            Clifton Royston  --  cliftonr at tikitechnologies.com
>           Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect
> "I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
> And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..."
>                                              -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair



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Fafa Hafiz Krantz
  Research Designer @ http://www.home.no/barbershop
  Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf



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