13.4. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge (Web site design) 13.4.
13.4. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge 13.4. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge Use this option as a very last resort and in really extreme situations unless you want to offer your collaboration! Software developers generally receive mountains of e-mails, so your anguished question on the use of the cd command will most likely… be ignored! The addresses will be found either on the home page of a project’s site or in the software documentation. A last word: do not underestimate your neighbors’ skills or those of your local LUG (Linux Users Group). And please, do not throw your computer through the window. If your problem isn’t fixed today, it may be tomorrow… 13.5. Mandriva Business Services Finally, when facing a really challenging situation, corporate users (especially) might consider hiring one of Mandriva’s consultants to address their specific needs. This is one of the strong suits of open-source products: we have the source, we have the power! Therefore, almost any problem, no matter how complex, specific or high level, may be solved right in the heart of the software. You might also want to customize your Linux environment to meet very precise goals. For example, you could use Mandriva Linux as a custom routing application on special devices. Know that Mandriva consulting services [http://www. mandriva.com/enterprise/products/] can help you. 14. Final Thoughts As you have seen there are many more ways to recover from an emergency than 4 by re-installing the whole system again. Sure, you need a little expertise in applying some of the techniques described in this chapter, but with a little practice you will gain such expertise. However, we hope that you will never need to really master these techniques … although it does not hurt to know them. We hope that the instructions and examples given will be useful when you are in need. Good luck recovering from an emergency! The usual way to fix things in some other operating systems…