[Wolves] USB hard drive problems

[Kevanf1]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:15:42 +0000, Paul Harrison
<milboromailings at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> Kevanf1 wrote:
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> | It's one of the reasons that Windows is so flaky.  It will allow a
> | multitude of problems with either software or hardware.  Then it falls
> | over.  Not a good thing in my book.  I would rather have an OS that is
> | that bit more picky and fussy about having things work properly.  It
> | ends up being far more predictable and easier to maintain that way.
> 
> I would agree, doubtless many egs of Windows collapses can be
> attributed to this kind of thing...however, having had 18 mths getting
> to grips with Linux and 6 mths trying to get this dratted drive
> working with it, I wish Linux could be more accommodating, or at least
> more informative as to what the problem is using a good ol' GUI.
> 
> Roll on Project Utopia?
> 
> Paul
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I'm actually having a pretty similar sort of conversation on another
mailing list I'm on.  A fishing list though :-)  Somebody espoused
going to PC World to get a PC :-(((((  you can imagine my reaction :-)
 I did say it would be fine if the PC came with Linux pre-installed
(it was for somebody who very un pc literate) as it would no doubt
still be running fine in a couple of years time.  How many times in
that 2 years would a similarly specced Windows box have died and
probably needed technical support - at PC World's premium rate of
course.  I did make it quite clear that this was compring like for
like and everything running fine upon initial installation.

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Take care.
Kevan Farmer

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