Re: [tlug] coffee on keyboard.....again

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:50:27AM +0900, Ahmed Sarwar wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:49:45 -0500
> Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:52:02 +0900, Ahmed Sarwar <l_gohordi@example.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > problem solved!
> > 
> > well, so that it will be preserved for posterity in our wonderful list
> > archives. That way, when someone else has the same question, he will
> > fail to search the archives and post anyway, at which point folks like
> > Jonathan Byrne and myself will derive great satisfaction from telling
> > said wanton poster, emphatically: STFA! At which point some
> > good-hearted soul out there will post the answer anyway, thus
> > depriving the lazy poster of any sort of education in List Etiquette.
> > But if we are lucky, Steve Turnbull or Chris Sekiya might post
> > something biting and hilarious during the exchange.
> 
> Hi I was away for a while and when came back to Tokyo I saw this and felt
> bad about not posting the solution. Actually I tried so many things like
>  "install-keymap","load-keys" and changing the keyboard settings in /etc/X11/XFconfig-4.
> I tried everything I've found googleing ( without having any idea what I 
> was doing) and none of this was working,..that's when I sent an email to the list.
> I'm so sorry I'm not an expert...


Don't worry, that happens.  However, in that case, (and I'm only half
kidding here--again, the reason is for archive purposes) it's worthwhile
posting that you're not quite sure how you fixed it, (and add the excuse
that you were getting frustrated and just started trying one thing after
another.)

The serious reason is so that someone searching the archives will see
that ok, someone had the problem, and was able to fix it.  They will see
that you're not quite sure how, but at least, somehow, you got from
point a to point b, and that gives them a starting point.


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Scott Robbins

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