Constructive critisism; room for improvement:

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If the error that he experienced is similar to the lockup reading that I 
>>>> experienced. The system acts like it was frozen in time. Everything stops 
>>>> at where it was and nothing works after the hang except a reboot. The 
>>>> screen has the same items displayed, the mouse is unresponsive, the 
>>>> keyboard is unreponsive.
>>>> This should not happen to a system when a bad CD, floppy or usb media 
>>>> device is nounted on the system.
>>>> Nobody wants their system killed by corrupted media which is not part of 
>>>> the core operating system.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I almost agree with you. I'd just leave out "which is not part of
>>> the core operating system."
>>> 
>>> I thought the original message was a nicely put criticism. FCx has
>>> a real problem which certain other OS do not have. It should be
>>> fixed.
>> 
>> 
>> True enough.  It's not a reason not to use Linux, though.  It's a reason to 
>> get the bug fixed.
>> 
>
> Didn't say it was a reason not to use FCx.

No, actually my remarks are directed more to the OP than you.  Sorry...

>
>> What did you say the Bugzilla number for this problem was?
>
> I think the guy with the problem should be the one to make an
> entry. I don't have any music CDs, so I can't really create
> an entry with any useful data in it. It's so tacky, don't you
> think, to create problem reports with gossip in them?

Sure.

To Jim Cornette and the original critic:

Could you please visit http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and file a bug under 
product Fedora Core, Version 4, component kernel (if there's not already 
one there for this issue)?

Thanks for helping to make Fedora Core and Linux better rather than just 
complaining.

>
> Mike
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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