On December 26, 2002 05:58 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: <snip> > I was unable to reply immediately when I got this advice, but God bless > you, because it did the trick. > > It would seem to be a fairly significant bug that they should have issued a > patch for. However, your advice worked, and has saved me a lot of grief. > Thanks very much. > > Seth Williamson > Floyd, VA > USA
As long as it's working in an acceptable manner Seth who cares how long it took. :-) You are welcome. Super-mount has worked well occasionally in the past; not at all after the next "update/bug-fix" quite often, and for me on this old clunker anyway, flawlessly exactly once. Counting from version 7.1 of Mandrake. It may not seem to be a priority for developers but you are probably correct that it would reduce the anxiety level for new users should it always (gasp!) work. It's difficult; however, to try to convince any developer (whether the ones on the payroll, or the fine volunteers that work in their "free time" 'cause they love it) to chase bugs out of something that bores them to tears. Especially something a developer wouldn't likely be using anyway. I want to thank you for letting the list know that your problem has been worked around though. Too many people never let the rest of us know whether the advice given was of any use. Your doing so is a welcome change. [OT rant] Enjoy Mandrake while you can. If the doom'n' gloomers on the mailing lists, and the chilling statements in e-mails from Mandrake-Linux, have any factual basis we'll all be looking for a new distribution soon unless we help "save the company." Become "Club" members, buy shares, or donate, in other words. In the interest of 'helping the cause,' I've bought retail box sets for every (at least) second release since 7.1. At times more than one set per release when a friend 'borrowed' but didn't return it. That wasn't possible for 9.0 (out of sequence for me) since the damned box sets weren't in stores in anything resembling a reasonable time frame here in western Canada. As soon as it's made easy and I don't have to pay double the posted price in a lump sum I'll jump right into the Club. Canadian "Monopoly Money" isn't the worst currency, but it sure as hell ain't US dollars. Adding the option to pay at $10 or $15 per month would make "helping" a real attainable probability for a lot of low income people, but there's no provision for that. Nor does it seem there's any interest at Mandrakesoft for making it so. Is Mandrake at all interested in my (and probably many others) ongoing $15 CDN per month? It would seem not. [\OT rant] Sorry about the above OT. Amazing what spews out of me when "my buttons are pushed." Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants.
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