To the originator of this crap: Dude, you owed me a new keyboard. I spilled a hot coffee over it when I laughed reading your bullshit. Now I'm gonna sue you for the damages. Doesn't it sound the same as your troll story? Are you a law school student by the chance? Alex On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:10 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Sebastian Wolff (sebastian.wolff@bauing.uni-weimar.de) [031203 19:00]:
Dear SuSE community!
This is a call for help and a troll against Linux.
This bullshit and your right a troll from someone who knows very little about hardware.
Is it possible that in particular situations Linux may kill the main board of any laptop?
Nope. But it can write to writable eproms such as the bios which is evident in the Mandrake incident in which a bug caused Mandrake 9.2 to screw up the eprom on certain CDROM drives. But if that was the case then a $20 bios chip would fix your issue not a whole new main board.
the worst case - therefore, to press reset is a very common and intuitive way.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WTF is this? You sound like some foofoo Mac user who thinks "force-quit" is an intuitive way to kill a program when as of OSX it's just a fancy (read idiotic term) for kill -9 >pid< ...this doesn't inspire confidence at all.
Well. Sometimes it can also kill your whole hardware.
You can..an OS can not. My buddy called me last night saying the same shit but he's not the most computer savvy guy but it just so happened that close to the same time he installed SUSE 9.0...his six year old..yes six year old CDROM drive decided to crap out. It was not Linux that killed it..it was that it was a $20 POS CDROM when I bought it for him..so I'm surprised it had lasted this long. But thank God instead of freaking out and spouting nonsense about suing someone for his POS CD drive he asked calm rational questions and figured the problem out.
(1) What happened ???!
You own a computer when you should not and/or maybe someone you know should get you a Powerbook an the 1-800 # for tech support?
(2) Who can I sue for it?
The obstetrician your parents used?
After all this operating system (really, I liked it till now) destroyed a value of 2500 Euro (2700 $) within only 2 month! As a student I can live with that money for a whole year - and then I wanted to finish a research project next week - 3 complete month of work are gone now.
Backups..always keep backups.
Now, this is a 'free' operating system. Who is responsible? Linus Torvalds? SuSE? The developer who produced this bug? Rather nobody. After this incident I have to define 'reliability' in a new sense. This warranty problem might be a reason to encourage companies to stay at Windows, HP-UX or MacOS.
No one really because SUSE Linux didn't do anything wrong in this situation..and neither would any of the other environments you meant.
Please learn what your talking about before coming on this list to rant and rave. And if you are just simply a troll as one other suggested then I hope you read this and understand that we won't fall for this sort of behavior as some of my fellow OS/2 users did. We simply don't care if like or use Linux...it's about time we stopped pandering to people who shouldn't even own a computer in most cases. We really need the gene pool cleaned in the computer world.
If you are a University student then by God I hope your a freshman and that by the time you get out you will be better at critical thinking.
bah!
-- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- Why do we bother with a suicide watch when someone is on deathrow? " Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."