hot new laptop for ubuntu 10.04, and detecting DDR3 memory?

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> On 05/16/2010 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> > On Sun, 16 May 2010, Karl Larsen wrote:

>>> for the love of god, karl, take everyone's advice and get a blog
>>> where you can spew irrelevancies to your heart's content.  or just get
>>> a bucket and a squeegee and go yell at passing cars or something.

>  karl, i am not the only one who's tired of your senile ramblings.
> numerous others here have asked you to (how to put this politely?)
> shut the fuck up.  i am simply in the unenviable position of
> remembering your participation on the fedora list, where you similarly
> insisted on dispensing useless, irrelevant and, on more than one
> occasion, horrifically bad advice that, had it been acted on, would
> have resulted in some poor bastard trashing his system, and inspired a
> number of knowledgeable members of that list to post frantically,
> warning any unaware readers away from your disastrously bad counsel.

>  and that's the biggest problem, karl.  it's not that your
> contributions are uninformed, useless, inane and decidedly off-topic,
> with no redeeming value whatsoever. it's that they're *dangerous*, and
> woe unto any new list member who isn't aware of that and decides to
> take your advice.

>  and even when you're not being dangerous, karl, you're being utterly
> useless.  you're like the drunk who lost his keys down the street but
> looks for them under the streetlight because the light's better there.
> when someone asks a specific question, your astonishing ignorance
> doesn't stop you from addressing it, but because you know nothing
> about *that* topic, you simply ignore the question and insist on
> addressing the one supplied by the voices in your head.  case in
> point:  i asked about nvidia graphics cards, you thought it important
> to let me know what you thought of your *intel* card.  what the fuck
> *for*, karl?  what possible value did your posting have?  zero.

>  i'm just a bit miffed about this because i remember you from the
> fedora list, karl, and i remember how you -- single-handedly -- made
> that list a less productive forum with your rambling and your
> horrifically bad advice.  mostly, i remember how you relentlessly
> berated other, far more knowledgeable list members because they
> committed the cardinal sin of somehow not appreciating your dizzying
> intellect.  it's just deja vu all over again.

>  you're right, karl -- your earlier posting was *not* blog material.
> it was too vacuous and mind-numbingly useless even for *that*.

> p.s.  if anyone cares, there were a number of fedora ML members who
> seriously proposed banning karl, for a couple of fairly compelling
> reasons.  the first, of course, was his perpetually bad advice, which
> on many occasions would have inspired some poor newbie to totally
> trash his system.

>  the second (and, IMHO, more important) reason was that karl, through
> his ignorance, was constantly screwing up his system and breaking it,
> upon which he would *inevitably* blame the OS and accuse it of being a
> bug-filled, error-ridden piece of junk that should never have been
> released.  and intelligent fedora devotees were getting *really* tired
> of having their preferred distro constantly bad-mouthed like that and
> getting a bad rep.  any of that sound familiar?

>  if the ubuntu ML admins have any sense, they will simply remove
> karl's posting privileges, but allow him to remain a read-only member.
> maybe then he'd actually take the time to *read* the postings by
> people who know what they're talking about.

>  i am, however, not optimistic. as i said, i've seen all this
> before.

There have been many threads asking Karl to amend his ways and
requesting that Karl be banned. He was eventually moderated for a
while (I assume that he no longer is). I very much doubt that the
Fedora ML would have tolerated the behavior that Karl has exhibited
here because there are too many "Fedora people" on that list. I have
never seen a post here by an @ubuntu or @canonical address so there's
no first-hand knowledge of what goes on here...