Mallard wrote:
>
> Allen Bolderoff wrote:
>
> > I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the
> > crap.
>
> Yea, let's get a mandrake kiss ass corporate employee to censor out
> stuff so you won't find out how crappy this 7.1 release really is.
>
> That way the stock price will dictate what you can and can't post to the
> list.
>
> Good move. So I was pissed when I wrote my little rant, have you ever
> thrown your keyboard and mouse across the room? Yes, I have a bad
> attitude towards lame geeky user interfaces, but that's just me.
>
> I think they need to hear loud and clear that when they put out releases
> or call things "stable" that arn't, they will cause people great
> frustration, including damage to anything close by :)
>
> I don't want to cause this list to be censored, please don't even
> consider it. Just take the responsibility of setting your filtering on
> your mailer, or even better, write a nasty message to your mailer
> developer and ask why they don't have a way to simply "right click" on a
> message and say "block this thread of messages" so you don't have to
> miss out on all my messages, sometimes I help people (really I do).
>
> This reminds me of when people ask the government to be mommy and censor
> the net for them. (there goes that nasty attitude again, I better shut
> up)
Ok Mallard. I believe you. Everyone is entitled to a good old rant now
and then. I shouldn't have been so short and off the cuff with you.
Please forgive me and let's try this again.
Hi...my name is Mark. And while it appears that you're having a real
rough time with mandrake 7.1 I haven't experienced any of these
troubles. I'm sorry that you are. Maybe the differences are that my
system is mostly a 'mutt' system where the hardware is mostly
standardized with few specialized parts. Which I'm told can give folks a
real fit when attempting to install Linux, and Linux mandrake on their
machines.
I did out CPA's laptop the other week. Most of the install went well
till I started trying to get the video working correctly. That really
challened both my patience and my technical knowledege of Linux and
computer hardware. I spent 3 1/2 hours before I got the display correct
at an 8 bit color depth and another hours getting to display 16 bit.
Still haven't gotten the sound to work, and the modem is a stinkin
winmodem so I know for sure that's out-a the question.
All in all though he's really liking it and I, even though for a time I
was REALLY frustrated with the whole thing, learned a lot that day about
Linux that before that I didn't know.
--
Mark
