On Monday 21 January 2008 17:40, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:35 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > Here is how I think answers to questions should look like. > > > > ... snip ... > > > > > Question: How can I get the driver for my nVidia video card? > > > > > > Answer: This is a two step procedure. ... > > > > or, as an alternative, rather than continually polluting this list > > with badly-written advice that almost never works, you can try > > something wild and crazy and start a blog, like this guy just > > announced, and post the info there: > > > > http://totallybeginner.blogspot.com/2008/01/installing-nvidia-and-ati-car > >ds-in.html > > > > where the aforementioned beginner even recognizes the value of other > > peoples' work and simply links to a detailed write-up of how to do it > > properly, including contingency plans for when something doesn't quite > > work and ... and ... oh, screw it, why do i bother, since every > > conversation with karl ends up as: > > > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/143296774_97691615cb.jpg > > > > is it too early for a beer? > > ---- > it's 5:00 somewhere > > Craig It's 18:49 here, and I've nearly finished my 2nd one. I don't know if that is a bad sign. Nigel.