Move two sentences a little bit later in 'when to submit' and slightly modify

the first one.  This is part of a larger set of changes that are coming.
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<para>Another thing is that if the system on which you experienced
the bug is not fairly up-to-date, you should seriously consider
upgrading and trying to reproduce the problem on an up-to-date
system before submitting a problem report. There are few things
that will annoy a developer more than receiving a problem report
about a bug she has already fixed.</para>
<para>Finally, a bug that can not be reproduced can rarely be
<para>A bug that can not be reproduced can rarely be
fixed. If the bug only occurred once and you can not reproduce
it, and it does not seem to happen to anybody else, chances are
none of the developers will be able to reproduce it or figure
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these kinds of bugs are actually caused by failing hard drives
or overheating processors &mdash; you should always try to rule
out these causes, whenever possible, before submitting a PR.</para>
<para>Then you should ascertain whether or not the problem is
timely. There are few things
that will annoy a developer more than receiving a problem report
about a bug she has already fixed.</para>
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