Rhyming makes it no less annoying...

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( monkeon schmonkeon : twitter.com/ricomonkeon, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 19:37, archived)

my pet hate is in the boot sequence
"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue..."
( finnbar always employs the double tap, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 19:45, archived)

or "Network card driver not found"
".. would you like to go online and find one?"

GNNuffgh!
( mikenco, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 23:33, archived)

ha ha!
indeed!
( finnbar always employs the double tap, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 6:23, archived)

But you might
have had a modem connected? Or more than one network interface?
Sorry
( heyrudi has just found this setting, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 11:02, archived)

but
that one always made sense to me.
you DO need a keyboard... if you have to type "win" at the command line
(or startx) to finish booting.

sorry. i'll get my labcoat.
(salty_peters, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 17:47, archived)

hehe

( Gruffi Savalas This user is under construction, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 20:25, archived)

heheh

( Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 20:44, archived)

Clever git :)
That's this competition won already
( Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 21:26, archived)

A deserved FP methinks

(Drimble the .bmp kid, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 23:30, archived)

Now this is very nice, and I've clicked 'I like this!' already...
But how you pronounce the second line?
(MrTrick, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 7:38, archived)

nice
congrats on the FP, well deserved
( fluffymitten became omnipotent on, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 9:43, archived)

too
sweet
( Sunshine Elephant, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 17:30, archived)