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I did. I take chances like that all of the time. I've only rarely been inconvenienced by it.
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:17:56 +0000, Rich Bell I think you're a liar. *All* of your hardware unsupported by Linux? Every single little bit? Do come off...
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:37:56 +0000, Rich Bell Yes. What's your point? You still claim all of your hardware is unsupported? I...
No, Fishie is running around calling s-h-itself somethingorother Farter.
I did. It worked. Despite rumors of laptops being troublesome, and uncertainty about video, and concerns about wireless. I knew, one way or the other, it was going to work. Except the built-in modem, which is a Windwoes-Modem. I didn't need that anyway, and I couldn't find a similar model (READ: cheap) without one.
CORRECTION: Something happened to mess up the drive. My recollection is that only Windwoes was installed at the time. Plus a couple of other tools. You know, to make things bearable.
Do you know that it didn't? If so, how do you know?
And, he didn't say Winders messed the drive up. He said it wasn't able to boot. That could be caused by something as simple as a screwed-up registry. Or a DLL getting corrupted during an install of an update or something else. For that matter, it could be caused by some virus or worm that none of you Windummies ever get, despite there being approximately 54,000 infections per hour (KC Star, 20050802, page 1).
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