[plug] [OT] fear of posting

[Brad Campbell]

Bret Busby wrote:

> And, ask yourself this, Craig; is the purpose of PLUG and the mailing 
> list, to see who can win at one-upmanship, to belittle others, and, to 
> see who can have the last word in incessant bickering?
> 
> Think about it, because the direction of the list lately, has been 
> around those three things, and not much else.
> 

I disagree with that. I have always got a useful answer to most questions. I do get my spelling, 
grammar and punctuation picked on at times, but always a clue when asked for.

On the topic of language, up here a lot of people speak multiple languages. When asked if I spoke 
Arabic my reply of "I'm Australian mate, I can hardly speak Engligh!" Was met with a well puzzled 
expression. <sigh> They just don't get western humour. Try sitting in a multi-national/cultural 
meeting and expressing "Not happy Jan!" then having to sit and explain the origin for 10 minutes.

OLC: If you install debsums you will find it does not have md5sums for all the stuff you installed 
prior to this. There is an option to get debsums to re-download all the packages you have and 
calculate sums for them from the freshly downloaded packages. It's time consuming and bandwidth 
wasting but in a pinch may be worth the effort. Tip of the day : Install debsums as part of your 
base debian install and be happy!

Brad