On May 21, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: > On 19/05/2011 19:50, Richmond Mathewson wrote: >> >> My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fairly >> effectively hosed his >> laptop; now into week 4 of a trans-Europe (England-Bulgaria) e-mail >> attempt to "unhose" >> things . . . > > I've done that with ubuntu too, the impressive part is how it hoses the > update thing itself. I assume that's to prevent you making the same > mistake again. > > Updates, pah! We don't need no stinkin' updates.
Definition: Update, n. In software, a program revision that introduces a new set of bugs, typically even more unexpected and serious than the user has been accustomed to. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
