Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre9-mjc2 | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:39:36 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > If you want to get arrested it sounds a great idea. Thats up to you > > Huh? They are shipping faulty products. Unless their manual say "you > are only allowed to run windows 95 release 1, Word version 3.71 and > Outlook 17.32 and nothing else, you have handled your computer > properly and its *their* problem.
You didnt handle it properly. You'll find the old "you cannot damage the computer" messages vanished about the time of the IBM/AT. You instructed it to erase critical internal data, so it did.
> What did chernobyl do? I've never seen PC damaged beyond
Erased the bios
> repair. Everyone with a clue has jumper on stuff like flashing, and I > can imagine that opening the case can void your warranty.
You don't however have a jumper to protect your disk firmware do you...
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