Failed Migration to Linux

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Mark Haney wrote:

> On 08/13/2012 10:11 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>> Mark Haney seems to have a broad definition of "working".
>> For most of us, "working" means more than booting.
>
> I don't think it's particularly broad.  I look at it this way, if 
> /everything/ else is doing what he wants, then it's working. Just 
> because it's not configured correctly isn't the same in my mind.  I 
> suppose you can make a case for /not working/, but to me, this isn't 
> something that is broken (ie NOT working).  When you buy a new car is it 
> working even though you need to adjust the seats and mirrors?  Or the 
> radio presets? Would you consider the car not working?

Of course not.
Even if I wanted the seats and mirrors preadjusted, I wouldn't expect it.
I would expect to be able to find the adjustment controls and to use them.
My inability to find or to use said controls
would imply that the car was not working for me.
That seems to be Mike Flannigan's situation.

I deliberately avoided the word "broken".

>> For Mike Flannigan, "working" seems to mean do what I want and expect.
>>
>> To be fair, I expect that Mark Haney's definition
>> probably isn't quite as broad as suggested.
>> To me, running in a non-bug-report-worthy way would
>> still not be good enough to say it's working for me.
>>
>
> He is running in a non-bug-report way.  SAMBA isn't configured, it's not 
> a bug in the SAMBA code.  I'm certainly not dissing your definition of 
> working, just wanted to clarify mine.

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