On Sat, July 29, 2006 11:21 pm, Don Gould wrote: > Chris, > > First up, thanks for taking the time to respond. The following comments > aren't directly addressed at you in anyway... > > If you don't want to know how pissed off I am, then stop reading now - > you've all be warned. > > > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 23:04 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> > http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso >> One of many. See:- >> http://www.mepis.org/node/1462 > > Grrr... I already went there... and followed the link to a mirror... > > The mirror has 5 files on it. I didn't want to dl 600mb only to find > it's the wrong thing. >
Well actually FOUR files, two of which are md5sum files. the other two are isos, but I am not sure how you are supposed to decide which of them are the latest, particularly when the one numbered 6.0 is dated 21 July 2006 and the one numbered 3.4.3 is dated 8 February 2006. > Fuck sake people! I asked for a link to the exact file that I need to > download for the live CD. If you don't know or can't be fucked > providing it then shut up and stop filling *my* inbox with crap! I'm sorry but that attitude is not helpful. You have been directed to the same resource that the rest of us can use. Unfortunately computing requires some intelligence, spoon feeding you will not help you. now if you don't like the help around here, simply go away beofre you are thrown off the list. > > I should have been spending the last 2 days writting up notes for the > kids who showed up for 9 hours of leatures on LINUX. We ended up with > 10 of them this week! > > A project that I might point out, any one of you could have stepped up > and done! > except some of us have a job. > Rik - you have the balls to give me shit on this list about my > competence in teaching these people, you say you're going to support it, > you say you're going to turn up... where have you been for the past 3 > weeks?! > > Now does everyone get the idea why I WAS just focusing on getting Debian > 3.1 wifi/community nodes working (for which we have done the wifi stuff) > and not wasting endless hours getting the wifi card in this brand new > machine working?! > How many are going? > I've been in IT for 20 years!!! I *have* the skills to know when it's a > rabit hole! > > In the mean time I'm going back to XP and will go back to posting form > Thunderbird until the next CLUG meeting where you people can help me > sort the problem out if you want. > > Other wise, Rik, fuck off complaining about the fact I haven't managed > to get the wifi running yet. You don't have to trip over cords in my > house all day!!! > > End of Subject > > -- > Don Gould > www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - > www.bowenvale.co.nz - SkypeMe: ThinkDesignPrint > >
