…eat? None - my penguin is vegetarian!
How do I get rid of one of Penguin or Geckos?
For me as an older aged user this is too much of info. I get nervous about the zoological details… And I would like to get rid of the ever same join and location dates.
Looks like you found how to get rid of your location. Join date is just part of the software so if you want to participate here, you have to put up with having your join date show. As for getting rid of the geeko…put a piece of tape on your monitor where the geeko shows up.
come in via nntp and you see no penguins, no geckos, no join dates, no
winkie-blinkie avatars, no smiling/frowning faces, no thumbs up/down,
etc etc etc…just the pure and simple words…
FAST, CLEAN, EFFICIENT…and you can change your name for every post
if you wish…(or, you can link it to your existing ‘ulenrich’ and
boost up your posting count along with all of those who worry about such…
wanna give it a whirl? see
http://forums.opensuse.org/faq.php?s=&do=search&q=nntp&match=all&titlesonly=0
http://en.opensuse.org/Newsgroups_Reader_Configuration
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goldie (today, something else later)
goldie adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 20 Aug 2009 18:03 to write:
> come in via nntp and you see no penguins, no geckos, no join dates, no
> winkie-blinkie avatars, no smiling/frowning faces, no thumbs up/down,
> etc etc etc…just the pure and simple words…
Goldie,
Except for my AFDB wearing tux.
I do make the exception of X-face
But those are the very reasons why I use nntp.
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Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
OH, you are right…there ARE and 
not to mention:
.~.
/V
/( )\ <on a diet
^^-^^
@~@
/ v
/( _ )\ <old, fat and with glasses!
^ ^
.
/_ _. (.X.)| |\_/'| )____
//_V _\
(( | (_) / \> ' / \ \ \.__./ / -’ `-’
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goldie ,_
>’ )
( (
‘’|\
goldie adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 20 Aug 2009 21:23 to write:
> @~@
> / v
> /( _ )\ <old, fat and with glasses!
> ^ ^
I thought I had switched my webcam off.
And you missed an “r” out of fat there.
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Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:03:09 +0000, goldie wrote:
> come in via nntp and you see no penguins, no geckos, no join dates, no
> winkie-blinkie avatars, no smiling/frowning faces, no thumbs up/down,
> etc etc etc…just the pure and simple words…
>
> FAST, CLEAN, EFFICIENT…
All of this is true, but goldie, bear in mind that posting under multiple
identities does violate the Terms and Conditions of using the forums.
It’s not a good idea to encourage people to violate the T&C, so please
don’t do that.
Not only that, but it makes it very difficult for you (as a user) to keep
track of the posts you’ve made. Pick one and stick with it, please, for
everybody’s sake.
It is also a good idea to link your ID up with your OSF login - the FAQ
that you’ve linked to explains how to do that as well.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
> It’s not a good idea to encourage people to violate the T&C, so please
> don’t do that.
hmmmm…perhaps you are correct that it was the intention of the T&C
author(s) that “posting under multiple identities” via nntp is an
infraction…but, i read it a different way:
“Members may not create or use secondary accounts for deceptive
purposes including but not limited to: …”
and note that i have created only ONE account…and, since changing
the “signed name” of a nntp ‘guest’ does not constitute creating an
‘account’ i feel ok about it…secondly, nntp posters are free to post
without creating the first account, making it doubly impossible to
break that section of the T&S while entering via nntp…
oh the other hand, if i (for example) spammed via nntp (or encouraged
same) that would be different, as it breaks the T&C for reasons other
than “creating a secondary account for deceptive purposes”
anyway, we know the mod’s have access to full headers whether they be
of hhtp or nntp origin…and, if i actually violate the law (or T&C)
the full force of legal remedies are available to Novell or ‘the
community’…(and, i’d guess IP blocking is drop dead easy)
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…
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goldie (maybe, soon to become and remain “guest”)
Nevertheless I wanted to get funny…
This is a real concern regarding the forum webinterface:
for older people. If you copy/paste information and condense you get less than 25% …
> for older people
yep…it seems that very few under some magic age are able to fathom
the potential utility of a simple search…most seem to think they
MUST be the first person on earth to could possibly want to change the
background as their FIRST action after install…for example.
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goldie
Revolutionary! I even can rename myself! Or hide my personal information like passwords credit card number, all I need is just a … tape.
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
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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…
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goldie
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…
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
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
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! rotfl!
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…