From: Jim <JimHudock@comcast.net>
Date: December 26, 2006 3:27:26 PM PST
To: jwz@jwz.org
Subject: I mneed your help
I do not quite know what I am doing when I get to your site. I want to download the 200 screen savers. I'm running fedora core 4 on and hp computer. What ever I click it doesn't give me the option to install, can you give me a little help please?
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
Date: December 26, 2006 9:53:40 PM PST
To: JimHudock@comcast.net
Subject: Re: I mneed your help
Fedora packages a version of xscreensaver for you. Just install the Fedora "xscreensaver-base", "xscreensaver-extras", and "xscreensaver-gl-extras" packages instead of downloading the source code.
From: "Jim" <JimHudock@comcast.net>
Date: December 28, 2006 10:04:16 PM PST
To: "'Jamie Zawinski'" <jwz@jwz.org>
Subject: RE: I need your help
Why don't you just tell me how to get them from your site, because it takes too long to reinstall the software?
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
Date: December 29, 2006 2:50:42 AM PST
To: Jim <JimHudock@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: I need your help
Because if you didn't understand the instructions on the download page, that means it will be far, far simpler for you to figure out how to install Fedora's binaries than compile it from source. It's not easy.
From: Jim <JimHudock@comcast.net>
Date: December 29, 2006 12:14:59 PM PST
To: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
Subject: Re: I need your help
Reply-To: JimHudock@comcast.net
Then you should remove yourself from the download site, if you don't have the patience to tell me.
Since it took you so long to answer me, I had time to figure it out for myself.
I do not need your help anymore.
Err.. LOL?
You can give free advice to the guy how to commit suicide though :>
sadly he wouldn't be capable of following it..
I'm running fedora core 4 on and hp computer.
linux is now sufficiently mainstream that it reaches people broken due to idiocy, rather than autism. an advance of some sort.
wow. its nice to see that he got that in just as the wire was coming down for Douchebag of 2006 awards voting.
Wow. That's ... special.
Can I suggest that a quick look in the BOFH's handbook would be in order at this point, in case he pollutes your inbox again?
He's clogging my tubes!
ok, that's the second time *today* i've heard this phrase.
wtf?
Tubes. The internets is made of them.
Wikipedia to the rescue: "Series of tubes."
Pedanticism FTW.
I use it every day at the ISP where I work. I will NEVER let it go.
*blink*
Being that you appear to have left his email address intact, I suspect it's likely he'll be hating you even more. :)
if (username == "JimHudock" ) {
printf ("Clue not found. Please delete yourself from the interweb.");
self.Uninstall ("all", 0);
}
I'm willing to bet this is a c-l-o-w-n.
yeah! damned packet managers. ;) Why can't we just grab the software we need from the thousands of well maintained webpages? Isn't that why god invented rpm?
;)
"Since it took you so long to answer me"
Let's see, second request for help: 10 pm Dec 28. The response is at 2:50 am Dec 29.
Almost five hours is too long?
Beyond all the other idiotic elements, that claim is suspicious. I don't think this guy is really an idiot, just damned lazy. Realizing he couldn't get jwz to make it easier for him, he finally RTFMed.
If he were really an idiot, i might feel a shred of sympathy for him.
He sat in the internet cafe, refreshing his isp mail page furiosly, waiting for answer impatiently. Evil evil jwz took whole 6 hours at first to answer!
Wow. You were a lot more patient than I could have been, by that last exchange.
I'm surprised and slightly impressed that you were so polite to him in the first place.
Agreed. Far nicer than I would have been, or would have expected you to be, Jamie.
What gives?
I'm guessing jwz used his very last bucket of cocks to choke someone back in November.
He usually runs short by this time of year.
Well, he initially got a little sympathy from me because he clearly shouldn't be using Linux in the first place, and making fun of someone in that situation is just not sporting.
I got over it, though.
HELP! I cannot find my ass!
Wanker.
Use BOTH hands!
And a map!
I keep looking, and I always end up stuck in this hole in the ground!
HALP ME!!!1!~!one! WHERE DO I FIND SETUP.EXE FOR YOUR SCREENSAVERS PORGRAM???/?
lol, really. So funny
Your first warning was his "mneed" for help; I thought this was going to be a 419 thread.
I'm surprised SA didn't eat the email.
Such restraint.
Who the fuck are you, and where did you put JWZ??!
Maybe he really did remove himself...
JimHudock@comcast.net
That doesn't sound like someone whose first language isn't english.
It's amazing how people born and raised on English can suddenly talk like a chink with a bad engrish dictionary when using a keyboard. grammer goes right out their ass.
Bing part chink, I will raise your RAM and LCD prices for that remark.
And being a stupid white man, I will continue to buy it at inflated prices against an undervalued currency keeping the trade deficit nice and high. But hey, I can play games!
Your email address must be in every single spam list on the entire internet, nevermind the endless stream of complete useless crap like the above flowing in.
How is your mailbox still readable?
Although it is deserved, posting his name and email address is a bit cruel.
He's got just what he deserved. And happy new year to him, too.
You were remarkably patient with this dipshit.
I get emails like that sometimes from other people I work with, some IC engineers, but once in awhile other sysadmins.. people who are basically too goddamn lazy to take two seconds to use google, search our internal docs, or read the status mail I sent out 1 hour earlier with the details.
Serious pet peeve of mine... closely followed by the email telling you a change you need to make to a script for them. A change small enough that it took longer to craft the email (which, of course, includes the code) then it would've taken to simply make the damn change themselves.
As far as the engineers go, remember that installing linux at home means they're now qualified to be a sysadmin, and know far better then IT does how everything should be done too.