Philip,
When ever you post on CLUG, PLEASE make sure that you start a new thread
for a new topic as important as this one was/is.
I am far to busy to be ever interested in John Carters - Re: Google
Summer of Code (NZ Winter of Hacking?) , past the first posting.
I do however have more than enough time to help a local user with
problems that you supplied disks to.
Perhaps we can avoid upsetting our northern folk.
Cheers Don
John Rye wrote:
> </rant-mode>
>
> Phil posted at request for help at 13.43 on the 20th.
>
> Nothing showed on the list until I posted at 17.22 on the 20th having
> spent 2 hours on the phone from New Plymouth.
>
> I am familiar with Mandrake/Mandriva (since 1999) and I could not
> establish the source of his problem from here which is why I posted
> requesting that a local guru contact the OP and arrange to _*LOOK*_ at
> what his problem was.
>
> The tooing and froing we've seen today is exactly why linux "geeks" get
> the ELITIST label.
>
> Dammit guys, Phil asked for someone to contact him after he had spent
> some time trying to solve the problem. I did some 2 hours after Phil
> had posted, I couldn't solve it from here because of communication
> difficulties.
>
> All it needed was the elusive 'someone' to extract his bloody finger
> and poke 7 bloody digits, which where posted in the first post, into a
> dial pad and speak to the fellow.
>
> Come On!! Is it any bloody wonder M$ has us by the balls when it comes
> to encouraging new or inexperienced users, especially those who have
> difficulty communicating!
>
> </rant-mode>
Philip Charles wrote:
I have just been on the phone to David Jarman 03 322 9811 (ChCh). He is a
Mandriva user who has run into problems with 2007 (2006 was okay).
He has no email at present and not much in the way of Linux skills. We
have spent some time on the phone, but this did not achieve anything. He
has asked if I can locate someone to look at his system, this is what I
am doing right now.
It seems that the system will install, but on reboot the gui remains
blank.
Would someone contact David and look at his system please.
Phil.
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