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The Ghost In The Machine
I got that exact error message yesterday afternoon trying to boot Mandrake 10.1, and used it as an excuse to reinstall. How Windowish of me! But the install went well.
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:49:38 -0400 (qua: in the capacity or character of -- hmm, perhaps...
An illegal act I buttume.
Oh, I don't know about that. An entire community of Linux nuts sits around and marvels at it.
The average people?
Where does frustration fit? How much cost do you attach to it?
When changing the screen res in Mandrake forces a shutdown-restart of X, but doesn't reload KDE and instead leaves the user at a login prompt (and it will), does that require an entire 4a subsection?
How about the excessive online queries about fixing Linux?
Very much so. A few lines of VBA, a repository of willing Word files, and voila. Even a DFS monkey could write it.
I think most people will say they don't care - until they start using Linux a
How fair and balanced of you...
Hmmmm.... you're wordy like Rex Ballard, but details-knowledgeable and humble to a fault. Good post.
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