On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:28 -0700, David L. Gehrt wrote: > The disk drive were pretty good EXCEPT the spindle bearings were made of > some space age material prone to disintegration after a short period of > use. I knew DEC was going to be in trouble when the repair guy stated > that the problem we had with those bearings was because we were running > UNIX not DEC's VMS OS. I've heard similar bulldust about using Linux being the cause of some problem that it couldn't possibly be. It makes you wonder whether these people believe their own rubbish, are incompetent, or think that you're stupid. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.