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Linux DESTROYS Computer Hardware
On 2019-02-19, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 2/8/2019 8:31 AM, Linux-Warning Service wrote: If someone tells you to install Linux, they are your enemy and they want to ruin your computer. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM. Whether you have a brand new computer, or and old clunker, if you want to ever use that computer again, DO NOT INSTALL LINUX. .... There are indeed stories about bad display card settings damaging CRT monitors in the past. Windows 9x had the same settings in the registry somewhere, useful if you wanted more pixels, or less flicker, on your CRT. -- When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it. |
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Hash: SHA256 Jasen Betts wrote: On 2019-02-19, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 2/8/2019 8:31 AM, Linux-Warning Service wrote: If someone tells you to install Linux, they are your enemy and they want to ruin your computer. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM. Whether you have a brand new computer, or and old clunker, if you want to ever use that computer again, DO NOT INSTALL LINUX. .... There are indeed stories about bad display card settings damaging CRT monitors in the past. Windows 9x had the same settings in the registry somewhere, useful if you wanted more pixels, or less flicker, on your CRT. According to some (probably wrong) pack-rat stuff I surprisingly still have (i.e. a handwritten note in the jewel case of 'Privateer'), HKEY_CONFIG\DISPLAY\RESOLUTION But that very well may've been shorthand so it'd fit on the notecard. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAlxtSK QACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooEDVAgAghOYWoGO40dvQ/ikzGLQovFpLXFyqB7es/BVcGiNptJ6EhyhRJGe8oAa 3E2Xb+cf4L06FXSaYEPKJVdQKnwDG/06mbOcRULcQ31rtm46B1ryg4EymcGTOr3H ELSlL9TLvoXIcUevbzX3DQcpSauQYQGZx120KYitaJZwue0qLe 9N9hf2gPz6bnKM /4bq1tfpF2lRfgI/CuYSYKVO1JtzdlQa/qDidfGUIHq/y3FRXTOpcfT3oO0wRI2a OceO/tt7SY8C5b5ekK+mgEEkQp3oOuuWPXsfLufPhZk0K3Tk54O5OM3 N8RrB5VZT M26nGUFcWHMaAm2muoo1VZcU46vz0Q== =TDMW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 14/02/2019 21:14, Mike Easter wrote:
David B. wrote: Are your computing 'Help' pages still available on the Internet, Max? You should be able to find that all by yourself.Â* Try Linux User #393236. Sadly, I found nothing. :-( (Follow-up set) |
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