Chris Jones wrote:
>Warning: ficto-criticism alert.
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Oh. "I think that Linux is a fiction." "Aye, think so, 'til experience
change thy mind'?
I'm SOL right now...hard drive died over a week ago, totally disappeared
from the radar, can't even open the bastard with the required paperclip,
the hardware detector doesn't. RIP. Ordered a refurbed Iomega USB 2.0
and it course a week later it still has not even shipped. So the usual
phonecall: "Uh, dude...you took money outta my checking account, where's
the product?"
Played with Linux since 1993. I liked the older versions of the
distributions better: they were user-unfriendly, you had to LEARN things
to perform operations like recompiling the kernel if you wanted to do
something absurd like hear music. You had to do these things from the
command line. Redhat 3-6 were the most fun I ever had with a computer.
Fedora sucks. I'm sorry, IMHO. No USB support. A bulletin board full
of the usual arrogant techies who get insulted and insulting if you ask
a question about something as "no-brainer" as USB support. FreeBSD
didn't even speak a partition language I could comprehend. SuSE seems
to do it but I'm always on the lookout. Too damned many flavors that
take you to the same place: a boot Win95 floppy in the drive, _fdisk
/mbr_, start over with something else.
Too early to think. Home from work. Walk dog.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
--St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
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