Cannot access one's own files

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/18 Sylviane et Perry White <spwhite at freesurf.ch>:
>> There are some
>> words and ideas that cannot be expressed easily in English.
> Cannot?
> Many people only have English to talk and think... perhaps that could explain
> why their speech and ideas are worthles  ;0)

Just look at what the lolcatz have to work with! But there are most
certainly ideas for which there are no good words in English, many of
which are related to culture. Then again, there are words in English
for which we have no good word.

>> Especially as this is an
>> intermittent problem,
>
> Personally I don't belive one can bluntely declare a computer is deterministic
> (not sure about the word) and the same actions should always produce the same
> effect. After all it is never exactly in the same state when you think you
> are just redoing the thame thing. Those bugs are hard to track.

Very good point, and it is exactly the "what has changed" that I am
trying to track down.

>        you said in your first mail:
>>       Reseting the computer solves the problem temporarily, but after some
>>       hours of operation the problem returns.
> If you mean that "first there is a mountain, then there is not, then there
> is"  :0)
> either take some rest or consider it is a bug.
> Or perhaps a memory check?

I most certainly think that this is a bug. I did not even consider the
possibility that this is a memory issue. I will let memtest run
tonight and see what turns up in the morning.

>> and one confined to a single version of a single
>> distro.
>
> Other mails in this thread comforted me in the thinking that problems occur
> when transferring files... but I'm not sure your problem is related.

No, the bug has no relation to copying files.

> Of course whe should ask that all all languages with an alphabet (plus a few
> diacriticla marks) should be supported. I have no idea how it is possible to
> deal with other languages like chinese (and haven't taken the time to
> investigate yet... so  many other things to do  :0(     :0)     )
>
> Perry

Based on the spam I get, the Chinese have no problem with using their
letters on the computer!

Dotan Cohen

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