Can't Load Fedora 15

Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 16:35:23 UTC 2013


On Mar 31, 2013 9:26 AM, "Richard Vickery" <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2013 3:56 AM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> > Am 31.03.2013 05:47, schrieb Richard Vickery:
> > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us <mailto:
joe at zeff.us>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On 03/30/2013 08:09 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> > >
> > >         In my world, those of political science and law, research is
done in
> > >         books or online reports where we know what to look for, and
we have a
> > >         pretty good knowledge of what the cases are that we're
making; plus, we
> > >         have librarians ready and willing to help find information.
Excuse my
> > >         ignorance, but I neither knew, nor heard anyone suggest, that
I had to
> > >         go grab information and insight from some webpage, the
existence of
> > >         which most contributors, at least in my place, are clueless
of.
> > >
> > >     So what you're saying is, it never would have occurred to you to
go to the distro's website and see what the
> > >     people putting it out have to say about it, before using it?
> > >
> > > How would I know to look for something that I would not be sure I had
an interest in, let alone know exists?
> >
> > sorry but this sounds very idiotic
> >
>
> What reference point are you using when you use the term 'idiotic'?
>
> I wonder ifanyone has given any thought to this surprise being exactly
that which is why universities will never install Fedora or Red Hat on any
of their boxes, much less entirely. Microsoft will ALWAYS beat us out when
they're far more helpful than we are.

Sorry, I shouldn't have said "helpful"; by "more helpful" I ought to have
said that they don't disrespect the users' humanity by calling them idiots.
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