To the very smart person that Torpedoed all my Linux Installations..

[John Gill]

Oh dear, I'm the person that the original post was directed at.    I
actually just deleted it originally because I had no idea what it was really
about.   Oh, and I'm not hard to track down.   I also have a compromised
immune system, I have Myasthenia Gravis and am on immune suppressants to
treat that.

I think I pointed Alfred at this posting on my blog:

http://bytesnbikes.blogspot.com/2009/11/karmic-koala-on-acer-aspire-116-za3.html

I used the poulsbo fix myself and have had no problems at all with it.
 Note the instructions I linked to re poulsbo are on ubuntuforums.

As you will see from my blog comments, Alfred posted anonymously to the blog
reporting problems, I asked for more information and got no response.

I would be very surprised indeed if lucazade's scripts caused the problems
that Alfred is describing, but it would be good to dig into this a bit
deeper and find out what really happened.

If you read my blog I think you'll see I'm someone passionate about Ubuntu
and open source in general.  I put the posting out there in the hope it
would help someone else with the same hardware find the solutions I had
found -- which reminds me, I should post on how to get poulsbo working in
10.10.

Alfred, if you are ever in Ottawa, I'll buy you a beer and hopefully we can
have a constructive conversation about Ubuntu.

John

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:37 PM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> On 13/06/2010 5:10 PM, Phil Woodland wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 13, 2010 04:06:04 pm James wrote:
> >> alfred seriously tl;dr ... learn to write e-mails not novels...also do
> not
> >> accuse ppl on the list
> >>
> ....
> >
> This all started in January. A person from this list, told me about a
> Puolsbo Chip fix for an Acer Aspire One. In order to download the
> required fix, you had to use sudo to get the fix File. I know that using
> Sudo is risky before going on the web, but this person made it sound
> like this fix really worked for him. So I gave it a try. I was
> Downloading about 1.2 gigs of files, and that Poulsbo Fix, whish cost me
> about $60.00 in High Speed Internet fees, over a three day period. On
> the last day there was that Poulsbo Fix, that was supposed to fix the
> video problem. When I rebooted 184 Megs of Software got deleted from my
> machine the Acer Netbook, and there was a criptic message about what to
> do which had no effect at all, it was a complete, start over from the
> beginning sort of thing. I lost about $200   worth of software Downloads
> in addition to those last three days. Plus my Accounting, Plus many of
> my personal files. The last backup was about a month earlier. I wrote
> this person from this list an email telling him what happened. and
> suggested that if it was his doing that caused, the problem, perhaps he
> should stop doing that, because some other person might get rather
> Violent with him. Which is the Truth! From that time on, it just
> continued month after month. On Three Computers all my Installations got
> destroyed. All my backups acted like viruses, all my Personal files got
> completely destroyed, about 30 gigs of Pictures from my Mother She's
> dead now, letters, Emails I sent to people, things I did. ODSP Files,
> all got destroyed. When I tried to restore the backup it put 224 Gigs of
> Junk on my Hard Drive, so My Linux Box the second one would not even
> boot. Something about GDM not able to be Accessed. I keep that hard
> drive in tact. During the time my First Linux Box had a 100 % CPU usage
> that cooked my Athlon XP -$170 loss. My second homemade Linux Box had on
> it easily $300.00 in Linux Software just in Download fees. The Back ups
> with Simple backup did not work. So I lost all of it!
>
> I made mention of these things on this list and got no reply, I made
> mention about this on Landscape, and got lots of excuses, and no help at
> all. Fact is I've lost confidence in Landscape to help me with anything!
> It could really be anyone,and none of you on the list, and I stated
> that, and all the BS, well that's my experience with this world, it may
> seem like BS to you out there, but to me it is not. I just got very
> Frustrated, that for months now I'm not able to use Linux. I don't have
> much faith in Windows, but it seems to work ok now, not like windows 98.
> All I have now is a bunch of Photo's that need Scanning, and a few CD's
> with bits of data on them.
>
> Today I met someone that confided in me that they were a Computer
> hacker, and that it was not very nice of me to refer to Computer Hackers
> as Some Computer hacker. She Spoke like her hacking and destroying
> Peoples Property was some sort of Rightious thing that she was doing.
> Hackers have cost me Thousand of Dollars, and perhaps I missed something
> along the way. I've known about some Religious Angle, but then I'm not
> from that religion. I didn't want to live the way they do. Hey within
> that religion, everyone can live by it's laws, but I have the right to
> live by what I would like to live by, and I live and let live for that
> religion. She didn't say much, but sort of left it as some sort of threat.
>
> I can write very short things too, still don't know what tl;dr means!
>
> It seemed to start on this list, but it may just be some coincidence, I
> have no way of knowing about. All I know is that I got three Computers
> with Ubuntu on them that now don't work at all! That I get upgrades that
> on reboot, make it so that my Computers no longer work! Guess I had to
> Vent somewhere!
>
> Alfred!
>
>
>
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