Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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>>>> *This .sig left intentionally blank*
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It did? Where did it leave for?
>>>
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>>>       
>> That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service manuals.  They would put
>> that on the "blank" pages.  My questions was always this:  If it has
>> that on it, is it blank?   :/
>>     
>
> In fact, my .sig is entirely blank. I just always type the same thing by 
> hand after writing every email, and have been doing so for long enough to 
> forget if there was actually a good reason to do so originally. There may 
> have also been a good reason I didn't make it "*This .sig intentionally 
> left blank*", which would match the word order of the IBM manuals (and the 
> door in Zork).
>
> The IBM manuals actually had a good reason. I think it was that they were 
> in loose-leaf binders so they could mail people new versions of individual 
> chapters, and each chapter was therefore on pieces of paper that weren't 
> shared with any other chapter (this also required page numbers like 6-15). 
> This meant that if a chapter ended on a right-hand page, the other side of 
> the paper couldn't have anything on it. But if it were actually blank, 
> people would worry that it was a misprint (if two sheets stuck together in 
> the printer and then came unstuck before shipping, this could happen). So 
> they wanted to print something innocuous on that side.
>
> 	-Daniel
> *This .sig left intentionally blank*
>   


This is funny, I used to put the IBM manuals together in my spare time.  
LOL  That was how they did it too.  You get a new fresh one and they 
just updated the pages that were changed.  I used to also try to figure 
out what was changed.  Saw a couple that had typos.  Most of the time it 
was a serious change.  I guess they made changes to the boards so that 
led to the manual being changed too.

I also worked in a print shop.  So yea, the pages can stick together 
sometimes.  I've had it happen to me a few times.  Humidity in the south 
makes them sticky.

Memories. . . . .

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)
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