Cannot access broadband on 9.1

[Arthur Trevaskis]

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From: "Chris Jones" <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Cannot access broadband on 9.1


>
>> As a child at school. I was taught to suppress unwanted zeros (to the 
>> right
>> of a decimal point), so to me, 9.1 is 9.10, 9.100, etc. I still do it,
>> doesn't everyone?
>
> Mathematically you are correct. However the Ubuntu version isn't a
> 'number', like 9.1 or 12.23... 9.10 means (2009 10th month). Ubuntu
> releases always come out in either April or October, hence the releases
> are always X.04 or X.10
>
> So, shorting 9.10 to 9.1 in this case is wrong, as that implies January
> 2009, not October.
>
> Chris
>
Thanks for the lesson, but I'd rather get Linux on the air - otherwise I'll 
have to stop wasting my valuable time on it. Some of us have to work too.
Arthur 


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