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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dan Attwood wrote on 19/09/14 10:09:<br>
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the time I was in Gorizia (nearly 5 years) there were no
complaints (only some questions) involving the linux
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one support for a small number of users. How well does
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Apparently well enough. (a) These are public machines and Gorizia is
a kind of international crossroads lying on the Slovenian border and
not very far from Croatia or Austria. There are many people
travelling through the town and very few public places where the
internet is available. Gorizia is approximately the size of Margate
and is the provincial capital of Gorizia province and so serves as
an urban hub for the area. <br>
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As I mentioned, we started with one and now there are 5. Ok, we are
not dealing with billions here but then what do we mean by "a small
number of users"?<br>
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last time I used Windows was around 2006"</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A bad
experience with one machine 8 years ago. If I applied the
same logic to the start of my Linux journey there is no
way i'd still be using it (getting mandrake to connect to
a dial up modem in 2004 was enough to almost reduce me to
tears - it worked perfectly in windows xp) </font></div>
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I expressed myself badly. There are problems with any system of
reasonable complexity. Why just today my Calibre stopped working
with this error message:<br>
<i>~$ calibre</i><i><br>
</i><i>python2.7: /tmp/buildd/sip4-4.16.3+dfsg/siplib/siplib.c:8514:
sip_api_can_convert_to_type: Assertion `(((td)->td_flags &
0x0007) == 0x0000) || (((td)->td_flags & 0x0007) ==
0x0002)' failed.</i><i><br>
</i><i>Aborted</i><i><br>
</i>The difference is that this is not done by design, nor was your
example. Indeed your modem problem is traceable to the proprietary
model for which Microsoft is largely responsible. My example of a
"bad experience" was Windows behaving exactly as Windows was
programmed to behave.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jonathan<br>
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