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[Rhakios]

[wyliecoyoteuk]

Ah, but common usage is "a couple" for 2, and "a few" for 3 or more

And is a hand a limb?

[wyliecoyoteuk]

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The main problems with 10.2 for me was one sound device was incorrectly identified so the wrong driver was used. ALSA/kmix between them couldn't cope with 2 audio devices.

Also, USB support was broken in lots of ways. I couldn't get a USB printer to work at all and USB hubs failed in odd ways. All these things worked on the same systems under Kubuntu, it has to be said.

Still. I couldn't put up with Kubuntu any longer, so I've put up with the problems.

Sadly, I've tried a USB hub on 10.3 and it still doesn't work so I'm a bit fed up.
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[wyliecoyoteuk]

Must be the hub- all the USB kit I have plugged in so far works fine, including 2 cheap hubs..

Mind you , I had to buy a PCMCIA USB card for my laptop, many things failed on the built-in hub, on Windoze as well as Suse.
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[Rhakios]

[pootman]

I never thought it would be fast, but it's even giving Gentoo a kick up the backside on my 1.2GHz laptop.

It installs software in less time than it takes to prepare and serve a three course meal (for small stuff gentoo and 10.2 were about even).

And Gods be praised, you can install ndiswrapper from the install disc, without 5CDs!
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[Rhakios]

The word at issue is "few", keep up.
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[nordle]

I might be wrong, but who cares (edit: just to clarify, who cares if I'm wrong is what I meant, not who cares about this thread.....although having said that, its a bit daft).

Anyway, the bit that I'm probably wrong about. Is this a Midlands / anywhere north of Watford thing?

I've always believed a few to mean 3, not in a concrete do or die kind of way. I mean, if someone told me they had a few problems trying to complete a task, I don't expect the number to be 3, just more than 2.

But 9/10, if someone tells me they left a few biscuits in the jar, I would expect to see 3 (but not be surpirsed to see >3).

But talking to a bloke from Brimingham, and he refused to accept that if someone talked about a few, that their primary thought would be 3. He would consider 12 to be a few where as I would not.
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[dwjs1974]

OPensuse and cookies mmmmm
I have reinstalled opensuse10.3 due to configuration problems with my drive..

Dont like the green... I liked it much better when it was blue....
just for you word buffs see if you can see the mistake on the media check screen....

If you find it send me a pint of beer
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[Rhakios]

[wyliecoyoteuk]

Not to throw oil on the fire, but I do know people who use "a couple" to mean anything up to 12.
(Especially in the pub on a Friday night)

I always assume that anything more than 2 is "a few" , just to remove confusion.
i.e. "I only had a couple of drinks" as against "he's had a few"
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[Rhakios]

Anyone else noticed that gapcmon isn't behaving as it used to?
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