Mattias Dahlberg wrote on Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:27:13AM +0200 : > > > The real question is, "what are you doing up at 4 AM"? :) > This seems to be the number one misconception among developers, that
Well I'm not a developer, but... > everyone has their computers turned on during the night. Many "desktop > users" don't. As simple as that. Which means that *all* the cron.dialy > tasks kick in when they start working on their computer. Cron.hourly in 5 minutes, cron.daily in 10 minutes, cron.weekly in 15 minutes. 'rpm -e anacron' will take care of that little annoyance. But that still doesn't take care of your original complaint: You want Mandrake to come out of the box harder to use and require more manual configuration. I honestly don't know what to say to that because Windows users tell me that it's already hard enough to use. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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