mistake

Something bad could happen if you delete /etc/vfstab by mistake and you do not have a backup, the system would not find the required partitions to boot, they are: root (/), /usr, and /var.

Comcast has blamed Ubuntu Linux for my speed issues and they were wrong. Comcast has blamed my cable modem for my speed issues and they were wrong again.

Question is Comcast now to reimburse me for the cable modem I didn’t need or at least the gas to get a refund on it?

Why should I pay for Comcast’s mistake??The whole story in on my Blog

Probably the single most common mistake people make when assessing open source tool choices against the Microsoft toolset is to seek direct functional equivalence.

Make no mistake, this is no cheap keyboard. It has 430 LEDs that allow you to customize the color of each key; as long as you aren't using a Mac or Linux based system.

Ars Technica reports that Steve Jobs sent an internal e-mail to Apple employees this evening admitting mistakes in launching MobileMe.

"It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App...

Amidst the rocky .Mac to MobileMe transition last week, Apple made one other mistake that it is now apologizing for.

Apple had been preauthorizing charges up to 121 GBP to European customers who signed up for a free MobileMe trial.

For debit accou...

On July 15, Red Hat and Firestar released the terms of the settlement [PDF] of their patent suit.

When we last looked at this settlement, those terms were not available.

Now we can examine exactly what was agreed to and assess the degree of protection that Red Hat actually negotiated for the wider community.

It may be tempting to say that recent events have reduced the relevance of this settlement, but that would be a mistake; what Red Hat has done here still matters.

Datamation: "KDE 4.1 is supposed to make everything right with the recently troubled desktop. Everyone agrees now that KDE 4.0 was a mistake.

However, what the mistake was--and whose--is a matter of opinion..."

KDE 4.1 is supposed to make everything right with the recently troubled desktop.

Many people have had fingers pointed at them, but it is not really interesting who made the mistake: everyone makes mistakes.

What's interesting is the situation that encouraged making the mistake and that made it possible not to notice it for almost two years.