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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 24 Dec 1995 16:49:44 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4bk0b8$nnq@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <DJnHBn.BE2@endicor.com> <4b337j$bfm@felix.junction.net> <DJsv8t.7po@hamartun.priv.no> <4b5pqd$asb@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4b79ka$1t5@park.uvsc.edu> <4b9p16$8ov@interport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] David Tay (davidtay@interport.net) wrote: : I hate to be a snob, but.... : : As a typesetter and designer, I gotta say that the Linux Journal is : pathetic. As sloppy as their whole goddamn distribution. Agreed! They have one colonmist that keeps writing articles about free software, but keeps saying he can't figure out how to use half of it. (If you've read a few Linux Journals, you know who is this.) Thus telling us to disreguard his conclusions. I've found numerous technical errors in many of their articles. Doesn't anyone with any sysadmin experience proof read them? I liked the advice on moving home directories across partitions that said to use "cp -rp". Now can anybody give me just one reason what's wrong with this? Seems so many user's want to write an article to say they "made it", but don't have much to say. Personally, I would read such a publication to learn something (and learn it right). Not to be mislead. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)