I normally and wisely refrain from ever commenting on the technical stuff that often fills silkmaill....but...
Let me quote: "I suddenly developed some hardware problems with my old computer (running dual boot Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog and Windows) and did a quick and dirty inexpensive upgrade of Motherboard, CPU, RAM , HDD and box to an AMD 64 bit with 1 GB RAM and 160 GB SATA HDD (@ Rs 10,000 for the lot) Installed Win XP first and tried to install Ubuntu 6.06 - but the graphical partition manager did not work. So I had (previously downloaded) a CD of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn I think). This was a dream installation. The online upgrades and kde related downloads totalling about 600 MB more were flawless. I had no trouble importing all my email onto the new kmail installation - using the importer (downloaded separately via synaptic) Downloaded and installed Flash player for Youtube videos. Easily modified /etc/fstab to access my usual FAT 32 Windows partition, but I still have not tried accessing a NTFS partition. The installation recognised my (HP 3100) printer/scanner first time and is prinitng and scanning with no sweat on my part. A Bluetooth dongle was recognised first time and connected to my cellphone (Windows Mobile on Moto Q)" Anyone who writes all that may be a non-techie but NOT a "dumb user"....too much self-deprecation not allowed!! But... >mistyped my password for internet banking and locked myself out of my >account. But that is my fault. Now...THAT sounds more like me....me, for example, I have no clue what these words even MEAN: Hoary Hedgehog 160 GB SATA HDD (ok, I guess HDD is Hard Disk Drive?) graphical partition manager Feisty Fawn (any more alliterative animals that Ubuntu has spawned?) kde related downloads modified /etc/fstab FAT 32 Windows partition NTFS partition dongle (no, that can't be what I think.) I am doing all this cut and paste now...I usually skim through, and delete, all such tech stuff as I firmly believe in learn-only-as-much-as-you-need-about-software-as-it-shall-become-obsolete-in-about-twenty-minutes....! Shiv, you have always been one of the most computer-savvy non-computer professionals I know. Perhaps, like someone else I know, you too might suddenly switch from being a medical practitioner to a software techie...but no, I don't think that will happen..but it very easily could! Deepa.
