Bad Linux Programmers
Actually, with the exception of some winmodems that don't even have a speaker, that mode is the default at power-on, and if you use the...
No. I'm not knocking Linux in general, just some of its code writers, and am grateful for their work even while I complain about certain aspects of it.
I was cleaning my computer last week and unknowingly knocked my serial card loose. Not visibly so.
Without knowing the modem, or communications software, and the local setup (init string, etc.), I might be looking at the...
So I try to connect to the Internet later and this is what I get:
pppd: started ttyS3: LSR safety check engaged! Connect script failed pppd: Exit.
That's fromvar-log-syslog. The same error message was echoed to my console.
Captain Dondo True. And I should preface this by saying that I have little sympathy with the OP on just about anything he says, but this is one place...
What the hell is an "LSR safety check"? Took me an your to track it down, and I had to go to the driver's SOURCE code in the kernel sources.
* linux-drivers-char-serial.c * * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds * Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, * 1998, 1999 Theodore Ts'o * * Extensively rewritten by Theodore Ts'o, 8-16-92 -- 9-14-92.
Good thing I know a little C and was able to decipher his comments.
It turns out that what that means is that the driver couldn't find my serial card.
So why didn't the error message just SAY that!!!???? Why write error messages that only programmers of similar devices can understand!?
A newbie, who probably wouldn't have had the kernel sources around and wouldn't have known to look there if he-she did, would have been totally stray.
So I email him, asking him to correct this in the master source, which he controls (it's hardly a big job!) and any other similar error messages. I am very polite and thank him for his excellent work.
My mail doesn't bounce, but I haven't received a reply from him (I pbuttlisted him quite thoroughly, writing a filter recipe that would pbutt any mail with his name in it and any mail from his domain and any mail with a phrase that was part of my mail to him. I also checked my logs....)
I have setup a departmental server that I can't get working in UDMA mode. It's running...
No, trolls, I was not using the address below.
So he is doubly a bad programmer, one of these elitists who doesn't give a poo about the people who use his programs, just that he get credit for writing it among his peers and superiors in Academia.
Given a choice in the future, I will avoid any of his programs.
AC
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