[PLUG] Reality check

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Mike Neal wrote:
>
>> Remember, there is nothing you can type which will make smoke come 
>> out of
>> the computer (until you learn about overdriving a monitor or using a
>> debugger to push the read/write head into the side of the hard drive 
>> case).
>
Or download and execute "cpuburn" :)

Yeah, I'm with the good Doctor Shepard on this one -- take this out. :)

> Mike,
>
>   I'd take out the parenthetical phrase; someone will take that as a 
> personal
> challenge. Then add "virtually" in front of "nothing."
>
>   The second sentence can be tuned by writing, "If you trash your linux
> installation -- and you've made careful notes of exactly what you have 
> done
> -- you should learn useful things."
>
> HTH,
>
> Rich
>

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

http://linuxcapacityplanning.com