> Maybe it is just me, but I would be a little upset at the whole idea of a
> roomate rebooting my machine, ever. I would politely inform the
> offending party that they are more than welcome to use my cpu, using
> their *own* account, and if they ever rebooted again they would no
> longer be welcome using the computer. That is just my take, you are
> probably a nicer person than I am, but it would irk me to have someone
> else reboot my computer.
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.
> As for PAF, I have never used it in either windows or wine. :)
Don't worry, it will hunt you down eventually.
-James
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