How many Geckos does my Penguin

[ram88]

Originally Posted by kgroneman

...As for getting rid of the geeko....put a piece of tape on your monitor where the geeko shows up.

Revolutionary! I even can rename myself! Or hide my personal information like passwords credit card number, all I need is just a ... tape.

[hendersj]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:02:10 +0000, goldie wrote:

> that said, i will cease encouraging others to break your reading of the
> T&C's *intent*...and wonder if it will now be rewritten..

Well, I talked it over with the rest of the mod team - but it's pretty
clear to me that the intention is that it be easy to identify individual
users.

So let's just go with that as the reason - please don't make my job more
difficult, or give NNTP users a bad rap by changing identities/names. :-)

Jim

--
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forum Moderator

> Well, I talked it over with the rest of the mod team - but it's pretty
> clear to me that the intention is that it be easy to identify individual
> users.

that may have been the intention, but it is certainly not stated..

anyway, it is apparent to me that the intention is exactly as stated:
"Members may not create or use secondary accounts...", and since i've
not created a secondary account none of the other words in that
section applies..


> So let's just go with that as the reason - please don't make my job more
> difficult, or give NNTP users a bad rap by changing identities/names. :-)

how might a person who is not breaking any T&C while using more than
one IP, or more than one handle, or more than one spam-free email
address make your (or any mod's) job more difficult?

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goldie

i've come back to this now after starting my second cup of morning
coffee, and with reflection i feel the need to add a few thoughts:

it is not my intention to:

- put up a personal affront to our newest moderator (whose selection
and addition i openly welcome and applaud)

- make any mod's job (or member's experience) here more difficult..

- challenge the authority here, nor its rightful ability to control
the (potential) mob..

- attempt to hide my identity in order to violate any of the T&Cs,
including all of those in the legal document's Rules of Conduct

- attempt to hide the actual posting IP or serving ISP's unique
message/user ID numbers which remain traceable directly to this
machine's connection..

those, and others might cause one to ask:
Then what _are_ your intentions?

i intend to:

- be helpful to open source software in general, Linux in particular
and (currently) openSUSE exclusively..

- "pay back" to those who helped me become reasonably comfortable in
using Linux by helping, supporting, training, guiding, encouraging and
etc those that follow to grow in knowledge, capability, and self
reliance..

- set an example of helpfulness which might 'rub off' on a few who
will want to help those who come even later..

- do those three things to the best of my ability without payment of
any kind, including but not limited to: cash, barter, 'pay-back',
esteem, or praise..

which might then prompt one more question: Why do you change sigs?

simple: i neither need nor want recognition/praise/esteem in terms of
community/forum titles, ranks, post counts, reputation points or
geckos/etc lined up next to my account ID..

--
goldie

[ulenrich]

Although full aka:
"i neither need nor want recognition/praise/esteem in terms of
community/forum titles, ranks, post counts, reputation points or
geckos/etc lined up next to my account ID.."

my thread is continuesly pirated...

[hendersj]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:20:22 +0000, goldie wrote:

> i've come back to this now after starting my second cup of morning
> coffee, and with reflection i feel the need to add a few thoughts:

And I thank you for your clarification here, and appreciate that you
don't want to make my job harder. :-)

Jim



--
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[techwiz03]

Originally Posted by goldie

simple: i neither need nor want recognition/praise/esteem in terms of
community/forum titles, ranks, post counts, reputation points or
geckos/etc lined up next to my account ID..

--
goldie

In the words taken from the classical dumb blonde "I correct what I write with white-out and correct what others write with felt marker, but I hate this d** screen cause as I add lines or read further comments the white-out and / or felt marking keeps moving over the wrong words! My boss has taken to looking at me funny".

too bad it doesn't work that way in real life eh!

[wakou]

I Confess! I did not read the T&C's and set up two different accounts. One was for posting from windows XP and the other from openSuse. I have not used my other account for a very long time.......