> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman > Sent: 03 September 2001 09:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] The myth that is "Mandrake Support". > > <snip> > > Everybody, > > Ever' once in a while I feel compelled to post this opinion. Most > problems are _USER_, then software applications, then the OS, even if > it's Windoze. I'd place the USER fault at about 80+%, apps maybe ~10% > (more if it's Windoze, less for open source like Linux), and the OS > last at less than 5%. > I'll grant you that. But I'm not asking of anyone to _solve_ my problem, I'm just asking for ideas, because I've run out of them, I don't know what to try to get past the problem I experience. Now, If I (the user) is the problem, then I'm comfortable with that, just tell me what I have to do to better myself and get LM 8.0 working too in the process. <snip> > If you need OS support or hand holding, I suspect you're approaching > problems bass-ackwards. As always, YMMV ;) I suspect if you ask a > support person, they'd classify it as USER > USER > user ;~>> I don't care how I approach the problem, I just want it solved. Wiyhin my frame of reference I do what I can, I accept that you are very clever and technically minded - however I'm not. > -- > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay > > I repeat, Im not asking anyone to pontificate to me to find the sinner in myself, I ask only for ideas as to what to try next to solve a problem I see no way to reslove as it stands at present. Yours, Lex.
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