HC Brugmans hcbrugmans at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 16:41:13 CST 2005


John Nilsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 12:22 -0800, George Farris wrote:
> 
>>-------  Dialog box  ----------
>>
>>Your CD/DVD burner system is too slow, possibly DMA is not enabled on
>>your burner,  would you like to enable it and try again?
>>
>><Yes>  <No>
>>-------------------------------
>>
>>This message would at least make more sense and give the new user a way
>>to deal with the problem.
> 
> 
> I don't agree that the word DMA necessarily makes more sense to a user.
> 
> Could the word "DMA" be a hyperlink? I suggest to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Memory_Access.
> 
> Regards,
> John Nilsson
> 
> 
"..not optimally configured for cd/dvd burning. Would.."

Even ubuntu still suffers way too much from technical slang.



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