FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

Marc M linuxr at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 05:34:10 UTC 2005


>From dictionary.com it is both a noun and a verb. 
(edited) troll1   Audio pronunciation of "troll" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (trl)
v. trolled, troll·ing, trolls  v. intr.  
         1. To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly
moving boat.
         2. To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
         3. To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
   2. Slang. To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: "
[Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways" (Pete Axthelm).
   1. To fish by trailing a line, as from a moving boat.
            2. Slang. To patrol an area in search for someone or something.
     ------->>>>     A lure, such as a spoon or spinner, that is used
for trolling.
   
[Middle English trollen, to wander about, from Old French troller, of
Germanic origin.]troller

---->>>    A supernatural creature of Scandinavian folklore, variously
portrayed as a friendly or mischievous dwarf or as a giant, that lives
in caves, in the hills, or under bridges.

Or   (my definition) 
1.  A person who mindlessly posts rant level stuff on lists just to
get a rise out of people, like posting on the Chevy list (Chevys suck)
or something like that.  The transparently intentional starting of
fights, flame wars, etc. with a group of people expressing their
shared views and interests in a topic online --of which the poster is
strongly opposed.

-Marc

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:16:52 +0800, Edward Yang
<neo_in_matrix at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>  Thomas Cameron wrote: 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Edward Yang 
>  To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:45 PM 
>  Subject: FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory! 
>  
>  
>  I am *not* exagerating. Please look at the attached screenshot for detail: 
>  
>  1. I think eggcups is the process for printing. Why it takes up more than 
>  40mb memory? On Windows 2000, the spooler printing service takes up 
>  only a little more than 4mb memory and less than 3mb virtual memory. 
>  
>  2.  And, eggcups belongs to my session. I am not familiar with the 
>  terminal concept. I guess if a user logs on thru a dumb terminal, he/she 
>  will get his/her own eggcups; and 40mb memory will reduced from the 
>  server. Is my guess true? 
>  
>  3. If I 'kill nnn', where nnn is the pid of eggcups, it somehow respawns. 
>  How can I stop this? Anyway I don't want printing service right now, I am 
>  just learning programming on Linux. 
>  
>  4. I don't want xscreensaver, because I am running FC3 inside Microsoft 
>  Virtual PC. How to stop it? 
>  
>  5. What is gnome-vfs/esd? Are they a must to for a user session? 
>  
>  Please forgive me if my post aroused some kind of holy debate. I come 
>  from Windows world, it's inevitable for me to compare Linux/FC with 
>  Windows. But I will appreciate very much if someone can help me, instead 
>  of just saying 'Only newbies don't understand' or even 'Only morons don't 
>  understand'. 
>  
>  Everyone say it with me:  "Don't feed the trolls." 
>  Okay, I am not English and I don't know what is a *troll* is. But I think
> those who post useless messages to this list are *trolls* themselves.
>  
>  
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