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From: "Craig Reyenga" <craig@craig.afraid.org>
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I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their
proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed
into the source tree.

-Craig


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob2" <rob2@pythonemproject.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM
Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer


> I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my
> home directory are rob.rob permissions.  I end up at the root directory
> where all homeless users end up
>
> Nvidia video doesn't work.  I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia
> and I don't know where it went on my computer.
>
> I'm just having a bad day.  BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to
> rub it in.  This is Dell 8600 laptop.  I just needed to rant and
> complain.  It will get figured out in time.  I remember when I bought my
>   Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems.
>
> Rob
>
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