thanks fedora

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 15:47 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:30:55PM +0530, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
> > Sorry for being late to reply. Few questions have been raised - I will
> > answer them one by one.
> > 1) From my first post in this thread (20 sept) - I presume you will
> > know that I am not an expert in computers - to tell you the truth I am
> > not even a computer student - computer is a pass time to me and not
> > for long too.
> 
> This was not immediately apparent. You mentioned running Fedora and now
> run Ubuntu, therefore I assumed you weren't a noobie.
> 
> > 2) About my remarks on Ubuntu and Fedora - its just an user level
> > comments - I don't know who are those experts are who have taken it
> > seriously.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by taking it seriously.
> 
> > 3) To Ric Moore: as far as I know Cannonical's sole objective of
> > building "ubuntu" is not a Philanthropic one only - they are here to
> > do business - to take on the "windows".
> > Do you think discouraging end user like us is going to help them
> > achieve that target in PC market?
> 
> No one is trying to discourage and/or belittle you. See Ric Moore's
> reply on 26 Sep to my post. There is a mailing list protocol of
> attempting to research a problem before posting the question. I was
> trying to lead you into doing this. See my reply to Nils Kassube
> also on 26 Sep. 
> 
> > 4) I think I have subscribed to ubuntu-users mailing list and not to
> > an ubuntu-knows-all-experts mailing list - that's why my question
> > lacks the fine tuning of an expert.
> 
> There was nothing wrong with your question.
> 
> > 5) From my 24th Sept. post - by /home I want to imply the icon of the
> > PD appears in my /home/user1/Desktop - right clicking the icon and
> > selecting unmout will make the icon disappears from /home......... but
> > the light is still on - which is not the case in FEDORA+WINDOWS when I
> > select "safely remove".
> > 6) If you can solve my problem, solve it
> 
> With no effort on your part?
> 
> > - if you can't, then pass the
> > baton to those who can.

Or, just ignore you is the other option. Best not be pee'ing on peoples
shoes while asking for free advice. Not in these parts. See what you
started, Nils? He can follow you home, you buy him free beer and pizza
AND fix his machine. I sure won't, and I'm usually a nice guy. :) Ric


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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