<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 July 2013 19:26, Nicolas Mailhot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net" target="_blank">nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>Without sounding too blunt, this is business as usual from a repair<br>
end-user system point of view. I had dozens of such "oh btw can you fix my<br>
system" experiences<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah I've been there in the past ... which is why I have spare USB pen drives in my rucksack - some empty some with a live instance already on there...</div>
<div><br></div><div>And if going to diagnose/repair a Linux system it'd be sane to grab a centos and fedora live instance before heading out ... </div><div><br></div><div>It's just part of the toolset - just as screwdrivers and so on are as well for many engineers ...</div>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've also been there with dodgy hacky workarounds to deal with strange stuff - but I wouldn't expect it to weight in an argument for something like this ...</div><div class="gmail_extra">
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