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Terence McCarthy wrote:
(BTW did you check, using fdisk, what partitions were on the drive before you installed Linux? I've just repartitioned a company laptop -to give me room for Linux, -and found two unexplained non-Dos partitions before the the manufacturer installed Windows partition. RM, IIRC, used to do similarly).
It is pretty common these days - DELL (and I think HP and Compaq when they were seperate) use to ship servers with a diagnostic partition. Press reset once to reset, or twice to find out why you needed to press reset, on the DELL's it was. I suspect John is a *nix expert, these days very few people (Alan Cox?) can possibly be familiar with more than a few percent of available applications, and API's etc. Most you can hope for is the ability to read the correct manual page 9 times out of 10. I suggest we all play stupid from now on, anyone asks us an MS Windows question we should reply with "What is XP?" / "What is Windows?" / "I've got a Knoppix CD here if that is any use to you" / "You mean they don't bundle the source code with it - how do you expect me to fix it for you then?" / "Where is the debugger?" / "Reboot" / "Reformat" / "Reinstall" / "RTFM" / "Have you tried Google?" / "It is in the MS Knowledge base". Indeed perhaps someone could do a quick utility to save us the effort of choosing one of the above, if it could parse and reply to incoming emails as well that would be a bonus.
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