What windows does normally, is it tries to set its own partition as the active partition. Being so dumb that it thinks it is the only operating system in the world, [...] Well, I've experienced some Linux dists and Unix OS's doing the same

On 2003-10-09, Vince Littler wrote: [...] thing! I've had Linux as my default OS for years. I really dislike M$ and most of it's products, I almost never touch it myself except when helping friends or employers to fix their broken systems (OK, quite often I touch it then), but I find it wise to leave the BS and lies to them. Cheers, HÖ -- The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws. For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking Science, Social Science, and Computer Science. Discuss the generality of this law, and possible reasons for its predictive power. -- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking"