chrism at ... <chrism at ...> writes: > > Edward J. Weinberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:22 -0500, chrism at ... wrote: > > Ah. Cool. I haven't been to the site yet. But in typical fashion the > problems are reported like "uh...email doesn't work" or "I can't load > the Internet" and "We can't print anything". Maybe I'll get lucky and > it's just some network infrastructure issue. We'll see. > > Thanks again, > > Cheers, > One WAMP package I used some time back had a limited automated self-test built in to the installation, so it displayed a list of working and non-working components, and since it was trying out underlying infrastructure as well, could give a good idea about what needed fixing. Sounds like a similar package test for desktop systems would find many takers ! Could build it into a distro so that installer-admins could be told what was broken in technical terms. Regards, MikeW