[Gllug] Traceroute query

[Richard Turner]

Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, Richard Turner stipulated:
>> I tried to install Potato once and although I could have found all
>> the hardware information it wanted fairly easily it was less effort
>> to use the CD of any other distro, which would detect all those
>> things for me, than go hunting for and through the manuals for all
>> my hardware. 
> 
> I'll profess confusion here. How do you acquire a PC without knowing
> what its hardware spec is?
> 

Well, if one has several computers, built and re-built over a period of time
with a range of different pieces of hardware in each it can become difficult
to remember which pieces of hardware are inside any given box.
Additionally, I don't know off-hand what, for example, the refresh rates for
are my monitors -- I'd have to check the manuals.

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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