Mike McCarty wrote: > What context is there in which being told what one has said > is "nonsense" would not be expected to evoke a negative response? > In what way is it unreasonable to be angry when one it told > that it is nonsense that one's machine behaves in a certain way, > by someone who obviously doesn't know what he's talking about? You are being dishonest. I did not say anything about your machine. The actual exchange was: ============================================== > While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable > match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match, > and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. That's nonsense. Millions of people are using grub to boot Linux and/or Windows. It works perfectly well. ============================================== -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland