Haha,
Actually, I've been getting that error with linuxconf since Redhat 5.0...never
figured out why

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Bloody Australia and damn Australians.  Place has gone down hill since they
> stopped drinking Swan Lager and started on that awful stuff that comes out
> of green cans.  Still Justin Langer is in the test team so it can't be all
> bad.  And for the record the Mandrake programme sure knows what Western
> Standard Time is.  If Mandrake can find Perth then it's certainly got its
> priorities right ;-).
> 
> Australians have a bizarre preoccupation with rats' arses.  Don't ask me
> why.
> 
> Aaron.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Laurie Dare [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent:       Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:57 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:    [newbie] Mandrake 6.1
> > 
> > Hello from Downunder. As a happy and contented user of Mandrake 5.3 I
> > was a little tentative about 'updating' to 6.1. I had good reason! 6.1
> > has more bugs than my bed! For instance; the bootloader won't load LILO
> > onto hdb1, at least not the first time. Many of the program icons on the
> > desktop just look at you whwn you attempt to load the application...too
> > many to list. But the daddy of them all is the cute German/English
> > message..
> >    "The file as a revision date in the future. This probably means that
> > you system time is wrong or as been wrong at some point." Ratsarse!! The
> > installation program can't tell the difference between EST (Australian)
> > and GMT ( or UTC if you will)!! Consequently many files have tomorrow's
> > date, and the above message comes up each and every time one is envoked.
> > Jesus, if I'd wanted all these hassles I could have installed Winblows
> > 98!! Why must you people release such buggy software? Haven't you learnt
> > ANYTHING from Gill Bates? I'm off to purchase SuSe (or is it sUsE hi )
> > tomorrow...nothing's cheap if it doesn't work. Oh, and don't waste your
> > time flaming me. I've already quit this list.
> > Good riddance to bad rubbish!
> > 
> > Laurie Dare
> > 
> >

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