Ok I am over it now. Thanks for the support. This is a great list.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
> On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I understand your frustration level. Sometimes you just
> have to step back, have a brew and shut the computer off
> for awhile. :-) Trust me, I've been there... :-) And I'm
> STILL there sometimes. I work for an ISP and sometimes have
> to work on customers' computers which are real pieces of
> cra^H^H^H junk. F'r instance, we got an old PS/2 model 95
> in here....had OS/2 on it and I had to load Windows on it.
> Unfortunately, the Windows diskettes were bad....I
> eventually got it working by taking the hard drive OUT of
> the machine (SCSI) and hooking it up to my personal SCSI
> card and copying the files over from a CD. But, it took me
> several days of working on it to get to that point. :-)
> >
> > I just think sending
> > Venus out with such serious problems was bad, but then not to update the
> > packages shipped long after the release was really bad.
> > Jeanette
> >
> Umm....well, what do you think Mandrake 6.1 is? ;-) Think
> of Mandrake 6.1 as a "bug-fix release" of Mandrake 6.0. :-)
> Kinda like Windows 98SE is a "bug-fix" for Windows
> 98...only it took Microsoft about 2 years to get it out,
> instead of a month or two... :-)
> Can you HONESTLY say you've *never* gotten the BSOD from a
> Microsoft product? And yet, you don't have this level of
> frustration at Microsoft.... :-) My guess is you had your
> expectations unfairly raised about Linux/Mandrake being so
> much better than Windows. Well, in many respects it is,
> but these guys are just human...they make mistakes but
> they're a LOT faster at fixing it than Microsoft. :-)
> John
>
