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The Linux Support Call HOWNOTTO
Nov 1, 2008, 14 :02 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6277 reads)

(Other stories by Michael Hall)

"Not "My special flowchart says I have to," just "Linux is probably reaching out from the hard drive, where it sits as nothing more than a collection of magnetic potential unkissed by so much as a single read head, just waiting to influence the hardware before GRUB can even find it, or the hardware can even acknowledge the existence of GRUB for that matter (deep breath)... Linux is reaching out in that manner and wrecking your laptop and it must come off."

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we can expand this out further and see t ...   Monopoly$oft   
Neo
Nov 1, 2008, 17:48:31
 
Getting DSL on the left coast is still p ...   I know its old but sadly still true   
Jeff Cobb
Nov 1, 2008, 18:34:11
 
The "inability" to see anything exists o ...   The "Wall of Death" where Linux is concerned   
TonyY
Nov 1, 2008, 20:31:06
 
> I refused to budge or let him leave un ...   Re: ... sadly still true   
The Man Who Japed
Nov 3, 2008, 20:06:58
 
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