8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 3 01:36:09 UTC 2010


On 03/09/2010 01:58, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 31/08/2010 00:32, Pastor JW wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sunday, August 29, 2010 10:27:32 am Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On 29 August 2010 18:19, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>>       Well, your a person who had zero problems upgrading from 8.04LTS to
>>>>> 10.04LTS, is this the case?
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I didn't keep public notes but I recall no problems. Do you have
>>>> access to my sekrit pink diary where I write down every little secret
>>>> I've ever had? Have a look at there.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> mine had a small problem with the flash installer but it was fixed in a couple
>>> minutes following the goggled suggestion on how to fix it.  I believe the
>>> installer has been repaired as to this problem now, so a new update shouldn't
>>> have even this small glitch!
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Btw, it is  "You are a person", not "your a person".
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> If one wished to pronounce it the same the correct spelling for it would be
>>> you're.
>>>
>>>        
>> Hmmmm...so you "goggled" and not "googled"? :-)
>>
>>      
> 	Which brings up a peeve of mine. I do not agree with "Google" being a
> verb. It's a name, a pronoun. I believe it should be "search using
> Google" or somesuch variant.
>    

Well, my pet peeve is, "Google is your friend" - which it isn't. It 
keeps all your posts, it tracks you all over the web.....

But re the 'verb' "google" it has actually been recently added to the 
English dictionary, or at least about to be added. This was brought out 
in a program I saw about linguistics.

BC

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