Re: New releases query

"Unruh" <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message 
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> ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:
>
> ...
>
>>One problem that has appeared on "popular" distributions is
some helper
>>nanny that will silently correct your mistakes. Now I can understand
>>the rational for something to reset permissions from 0777 or such, but
>>when I set /etc/resolv.conf to be 'this', and some application author
>>decides I really wanted it to be 'that' and "I'll fix it for
you",
>>that nanny program is history, and if it doesn't come out easily, then
>>the whole distribution is going to be replaced by something that I
>>know is going to work.
>
> Yes, Mandriva has driven me batty because they decided that alt-ctrl-del
> should reboot, not shutdown. So if you change the line in /etc/inittab so
> CAD shutsdown, that night it gets changed back. Idiotic for laptops.

Shhh.  Not so loud.  Some moron might come up with the stupid idea of making 
CAD required to login... 

ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:

...

>One problem that has appeared on "popular" distributions is some
helper
>nanny that will silently correct your mistakes. Now I can understand
>the rational for something to reset permissions from 0777 or such, but
>when I set /etc/resolv.conf to be 'this', and some application author
>decides I really wanted it to be 'that' and "I'll fix it for
you",
>that nanny program is history, and if it doesn't come out easily, then
>the whole distribution is going to be replaced by something that I
>know is going to work.

Yes, Mandriva has driven me batty because they decided that alt-ctrl-del
should reboot, not shutdown. So if you change the line in /etc/inittab so
CAD shutsdown, that night it gets changed back. Idiotic for laptops. 

I have to edit the /usr/share/msec files to "Fix" stuff. 

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article
<47f3f3b9$0$12569$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Leslie Rhorer wrote:

>"Unruh" <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote

>> ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:

>>> some application author decides I really wanted it to be 'that'
and
>>> "I'll fix it for you", that nanny program is history, and
if it
>>> doesn't come out easily, then the whole distribution is going to
be
>>> replaced by something that I know is going to work.
>>
>> Yes, Mandriva has driven me batty because they decided that
alt-ctrl-del
>> should reboot, not shutdown. So if you change the line in /etc/inittab
so
>> CAD shutsdown, that night it gets changed back. Idiotic for laptops.

Mandriva isn't the only one doing that stupidity.  I'm told you can
remove the 'msec' security package to "fix" this problem, but I'm
sure
the updates will reinstall this "critical" application.

>Shhh.  Not so loud.  Some moron might come up with the stupid idea of
>making CAD required to login...

A friend set /etc/inittab so that the trap runs an audio that sounds
like a car alarm when someone tries that key pattern. The klown from
the local cable service was out to "fix" a modem problem, and
couldn't
get to a windoze boot screen no matter how he tried (my friend wasn't
home, and his non-techie wife was overseeing the service call). He
suggested that the box needed a reinstall as it obviously had something
terribly wrong with it, and inquired what version of windoze was
installed.   X11?   Isn't that from Apple?