Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[DenverD <DenverD@xxxxxxx>]

On 05/20/2012 04:18 AM, Robin Klitscher wrote:
> On 19/05/12 22:56, Insomniactoo wrote:
> > On Friday, 18 May 2012 22:58 Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > A friend (recently) installed a brand new 64-bit system with a new
> > > you-beaut mobo, cpu, psu etc. Powered it up, installed the OS (which
> > > happens not to be openSUSE) - and his HD died :-( . Reason? His brand
> > > new psu was RS and "took out" the circuit board on the HDD (the 12V
> > > channel and all that). The psu was replaced and he managed to buy a
> > > replacement c/brd for the Maxtor HDD.
> >    What's a "you-beaut"? What's "RS"? What's a "c/brd"?
> Don't worry - it's Australian slang, not English!

with an international audience of users whose first (second and third) 
lingo is not english, i'd suggest to use as much non-slang as humanly 
possible..

it really won't take so much longer to type 'unbeatable', 'ratshit' or 
'circuit board', and it will save *many* others from a lot of wondering 
what was meant.

--
dd


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