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Wednesday, May 05, 2004, at 03:01AM

By Eric Richardson

1) The graphical startup screen should be the default, unless you have errors in your startup stuff. In the latter case, the graphical doodads go away so you can read and fix the errors. Fedora also defaults to text after an unclean shutdown. Should that happen, go to your local temple and sacrifice a baby lamb to become clean again.

2) The admin thingies should all pop-up a root password prompt. Sounds like something is wonky.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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