On Sat September 29 2007, James Knott scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > Richard Creighton wrote: > > What a world Microsoft has created! It makes honest people > > *think* they are thieves!!!! > > > > Lynn, STOP feeling guilty about USING Linux and certainly stop > > feeling guilty about asking for help, whether or not you eventually > > make a profit from the information is irrelevant. > > > > Richard > > A few years ago, someone tried telling me it was illegal to buy a > computer without Windows loaded. > Yup, I also had some alleged engineer, tell me the machine could not boot w/o an autoexec.bat.. that was clearly not true, I booted the machine in front of him, several times. I kept telling him there was NO autoexec.bat and he just wouldn't believe it. that was Os/2 He also was certain that there had to be something wrong w/ the boot sequence.. it didn't boot Windows, or ask or show some weird window that basically would have been a boot manager.
I have since had similar problems w/ ppl claiming to be people w college degrees in computer science, who haven't seen any OS except windows.. it's just weird. As everyone else has said, jump in and splash around.. If you think its' getting too deep, just send up a flare. We will try to help. But one caveat.. if you post something, and don't get an answer, you aren't being ignored.. chances are no one who saw your post knew the answer... And those who knew the answer weren't online that day.. just post it again. And use google to find a lot of things that sound like they are a joke. because they, for instance , allow you to use your own music on various bits of hardware.. you don't lose the music or art because you don't have it on your mp3/ogg-vorbis player.. -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
