Shane, Now you'll just get Rigby all upset and he'll respond with a fourteen page questionaire for your wife to fill in proving she's a geek who cannot be safely allowed to cross the road without computer guidance. Please stop with these success stories. You'll just encourage people to expect it to be easy. I'm a computer consultant. If it's not hard I don't make a living!
So come clean. She's a computer science Phd who writes compilers in vi right? cheers Brian On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 09:17, shane wrote: > well i finally got 8.2, mostly cause my brother in-law got it onto the > university server and gave me access. talk about slashdot effect..... > anyway. > > to test the current "it can't be installed" spam from a certain party that > has appeared lately on the mandrake newbies mailing list, i had my wife > install it on a slave drive on her win2k machine. she couldn't do it. > turns out she didn't know our dns address. i told her and she had no other > problems creating a dual boot machine. she must be a geek. ;-) > > after using it for the past couple of days to write docs, play music, surf > and read email, along with a short cd-burning side trip, her comments on it? > > "well it certainly is faster the 2000 and nothing has crashed yet!" > > i don't have the heart to tell her she 1) hasn't enough RAM to run at a > "real" speed 2) she is using the memory munching KDE with all the eye candy > turned on (she turned it on, but does she know how much of a hit that > takes?) and 3) she is running setiathome in the background. that can't > help. > > -- > "The linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do > it yourself.' That's it." -L. Torvalds > > shane > Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html > Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 > Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ > Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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