[Novalug] [OT] humor in real life Re: Kernel configuration for optical drive.

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> It's like buying a new car, opening the hood and throwing out the
> computer, saying that electronic valve timing is wrong, and the
> pre-computer is better, and then the car won't start.
>

No theoretical example here;

I actually know someone who did something like this - they were given a 
used car with automatic choke and they removed it an put in a manual 
choke. The car stopped working and sat on my property until I had to 
pay some car recycler to haul it off.

:-)

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