>       I'd be pretty irked too if he actually started rebooting my pc on a
> regular basis.  Thankfully he hasn't -- I was just imagining to myself a
> possible outcome of me trying to be sneaky and prevent him from leaving
> linux by confusing him(since at least once he has reset the sucker on
> accident -- thankfully I've got a journalling filesystem installed :). 
> I don't think he would ever reboot my pc maliciously, since he's a great
> guy.  I just meant that I could easily see him doing something like that
> out of ignorance(again) were he to be bewildered by a lack of the normal
> readily available reboot option.  He actually has my permission to use
> my pc, and I haven't forbidden him to go into windows -- he wouldn't if
> I asked him not to -- since I genuinely want to support his family
> history work.  I just would prefer to have him do it without leaving
> linux, since I often have a lot of processes going on that he's not
> aware of, and I don't want to have to stick a post-it note on the
> monitor every time I take off and leave it doing something that would be
> better left uninterrupted.  Plus now I've started fighting with wine and
> paf and my pride will not let me give in easily.  
> 
>       Just thought I ought to defend my roommates honor (:  It's no sin for
> one's pc experience to be limited to clicking pretty icons on the magic
> desktop. 

I knew it!  You *ARE* too nice.  *sigh*  I guess we can't all be mean
people.  :)  I hope you get it figured out, and I hope even more that
the solution leads to the removal of the windows parition.  :)

-- 
Michael
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