Subj : Re: Dial-around Long Distance
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Tue Sep 03 2019 17:47:40

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 29-Aug-2019 19:32 <=-

 BM>> That's more or less my thoughts.  Know with the old computer (the one
 BM>> previous to the one I'm on now) just about every time I booted it gave
 BM>> an error message.  Appeared to be a minor one, essentially "Ubuntu had
 BM>> an internal error".  Every so often looked at the logs but no idea;
 BM>> nothing ever seemed to act improperly.
 NB>> So probably just a confused computer generating the message... ;)
 BM> Apparently!  The computer did something it wasn't supposed to do but
 BM> wasn't bad enough to cause a lock up or a major problem.  Or a semi-
 BM> major problem from which it recovered.  It keeps working properly
 BM> otherwise. 

As long as it keeps working properly, that's the important part... :)

 BM> ...Might even be nothing: if look at the logs one sees error messages
 BM> about stuff that doesn't exist ==> something like "error, usb no
 BM> device".  Well yeah: nothing's plugged in to that port!

Not an error, just a not found because not there... which the computer
isn't able to differentiate from not being able to connect to something
that might actually be there after all... :) 

ttyl          neb

.... Don't take life too seriously..it's not permanent.

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