Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:14, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> Anders Johansson wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 13:36, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> You mean, you mean...nobody has reported this?! Oh my gosh.
>>> I don't know, I haven't checked. But step 1 when filing a bug is to
>>> search bugzilla to see if there already are matching entries, and if so
>>> add a "me too" in it, with the particulars of your system, if they don't
>>> match the ones in the existing report. This can help narrow down the
>>> cause of the crash
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Last Sunday in our local 'paper there was the 'Dilbert' cartoon which I
>> cannot but feel captures what may now be happening with SUSE. If not
>> then it is just simply funny. Unfortunately this mail list doesn't
>> accept attachments and I don't think it would be possible to insert the
>> jpg image (I scanned the cartoon) into a message here. Pity. If you get
>> a chance go to the Dilbert author's site - www.dilbert.com - and have a
>> look at the cartoon dated 12/11/05.
> 
> It doesn't look like the archive goes back that far.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're driving at though. Asking for details about a bug so 
> it can be fixed was the subject of a Dilbert strip??
> 
> ps. date formats are icky. Does that mean December 11 or November 12? In 
> future, please write it out, it's not even a common format in the English 
> speaking world, let alone the rest of the world, so on a list like this, 
> confusion is dominant
> 
> 

Or perhaps just post the URL of that Dilbert.