From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:

>  Actually, that cruel attack on my sanity gets right to the heart of
> the matter. It's okay to say "Just say no," and cure the world's drug
> problems, but people don't work like that. Some of us are human.

  Yes, some of us are still living in la-la land where something untreatable by 
drugs is treaded by... drugs.

>  Some of us take in old TV sets, fix them, and throw then out again,
> or even open a .DOC file without worrying about the macros.

  And some people are just plain stupid.

> At least
> 99% of computer users use Microsoft products and upgrade regularly
> because everyone knows you can trust big companies.

>  I rest my case.

  I thought state rail proved against that?  Didn't their whole comms network 
crash due to a virus?  And yes, they are running windows, it's evident by 
looking at their monitors when it crashes.

>  BTW, I tried to load SuSE Linux on my old 486 computer and it
> barfed. For some reason, Linux does not like my hard drive. If
> flat-refused to format it, and when I tried to put Linux on the DOS
> format (it *can* be done) it barfed again.
 >
>  So... now I either try again with Redhat, or cut my losses and buy a
> new computer. What's an AMD motherboard worth nowadays?

  It must be something wierd with your machine.

  Over the weekend, I backed up my drive with CDr backup software that wrote at 
10x, but used in a system with a SCSI card that only has capacity for 8x write. 
  I never bothered to test it. Total 60Gig of data to back up, of which about 
40Gig wasn't already backed up- and what WAS already backed up  was at least a 
year old.

  I repartitioned with software that I've never played with before, and loaded 
a very beta release of Fedora (the open-source Red Hat).  And not even the 
latest version of that.

  It complained about the partition table incorrectly specifying drive geometry 
and that it's recommeded I create a rescue diskette.  Or some shit like that. 
Yeah right- rescue disks are for girls.

  It all worked fine.
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