links for 2009-07-31

Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D. Blog July 31, 2009 1 Minute

Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide

This came up at the GSoC mentor's summit earlier in my session on assholes (although I don't think it quite fits the definition), and it seems that it came up again in the FLOSS foundations meet-up at OSCON.

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Published July 31, 2009

2 thoughts on “links for 2009-07-31”

nightmorph says:

August 10, 2009 at 12:05 am

Sometimes I think all the folks that come into #xfce are Help Vampires.

Then I realize that they’re just users who haven’t read/refuse to read/don’t know about the official documentation and other resources of their distribution.

There’s a higher percentage of clueless users on #xfce than on any Gentoo channel or forum that I’ve ever seen. A corresponding higher increase in HV false positives. I wonder why that is?
Donnie Berkholz says:

August 10, 2009 at 12:24 am

The closer to the naive user you are, the more of them you find. Just to get Gentoo installed takes you a level beyond where many Xfce users are (Xubuntu).