On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:25:32PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > > A newbie who goes around uninstalling things will get his comeuppance. > > In my case, the sound card didn't work until I uninstalled pulse audio. > So the newbie on my system would have had a comeuppance either way. Hopefully the newbie with your system/hardware problem will read a few threads on the forums, or ask in the IRC, and hopefully whomever suggests a newbie to do X, has done it already and knows the pitfalls and how to recover from them. Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081223/2ed32b00/attachment.pgp