Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: Charlie Tame
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:26

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caver1 wrote:
> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message 
>> news:uN%23NKlDFIHA.2004@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>
>>> The same reason that GW Bush doesn't announce when he's NOT going to 
>>> bomb somebody, because then there's nothing to worry about, is there? 
>>> Are you know complaining that Linux doesn't constantly warn you when 
>>> nothing is wrong?
>>>
>>> Christ almighty, what is wrong with this?
>>
>> Its a poor analogy? Who knows what else is wrong with what you said?
>>
>>> You are saying that someone with your claimed experience cannot 
>>> understand a simple message like this one?
>>>
>>> http://www.tames.net/screenshot.jpg
>>
>> So which of those partitions has data on that is going to be destroyed?
>> Answer: none or one or both or the ones not listed, take your pick 
>> they are all correct.
> 
> 
> There is no pleasing you. No matter what the answer you say but- "what if?'
> You're shown that the warning is there. Then you ask why is it there.
> The partitions that are going to be destroyed are the ones that you are 
> going to repartition.
> If its the whole disk its the whole disk. If its the free space its the 
> free space. If you do it manually its the ones you pick. No you cannot 
> use the same partition for two different OS's.
> Of course if you say okay you might want to warn your neighbors that 
> they will have to shut their computers down so it won't destroy their data.
> And by the way give me a screen shot to prove that it won't.
> caver1


Well the point is quite admirably illustrated. There is no pleasing 
someone who does not want to be pleased.

It is unfortunate that it is not possible to make things completely 
idiot proof but it is not, and all Dennis has proved is that not only is 
it impossible but if anyone could prove that fact 'twould be Dennis.

You don't give a ten year old a gallon of gas and some matches and tell 
him to light the grill, and apparently some are not safe with a CD. I 
guess that's life :)

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