On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:09:44 -0700 Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Memorable moments for me in 2002 included: > > > > Mine... > > * layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building on > two separate occasions. What a night mare! A age 46 I've learned alot > about human foibles and frailties and how cheap some humans appear in > the eyes of other humans. I'll never be the same. I'm still having to cope with these lessons... Not laid off or fired, but sometimes I wonder how far I am from it. Then again, if I ran Windows at work like everyone else I'd probably annoy my boss less... > * compiled kde 3.10 on a whim and fell in love with the pig... Really > nice. I can hardly wait... > > > * On the cusp of the new year I slayed the CUPS dragon and put up an > > lprng printing system (thanks to Joel's help) > > > > * ditto... CUPS sucks so bad that your ears pop when you install it... Ok, now I can't sit by and let this one slide... lprng is a great daemon for sharing a local printer. CUPS is great for printing to non-PS printers. Sure, you can make lprng do it, but it sure ain't nice and friendly. Biggest problems I've had with CUPS is setting a wrong printer driver and getting NOTHING printed as the print jobs evaporate, and: remote print server goes away temporarily, and CUPS stops the local print queue... not to start back up without manual intervention. But my nightmares with lprng on a desktop machine still live, burned eternally into my memory. CUPS is a good desktop system. > * Built my first real performance computer; msi kt3 ultra, xp 1600@2000+ > water cooled. > > * Paid off the mortgage on our house... It's like being born again. > Imagine having an extra $1000.00 a month in your pocket. :') This is where I get SUPER jealous on both counts. You must have done something right to have the house paid off by 46. My wife and I are refinancing taking the 26 years on our mortgage and rolling them into a 15 year, paying off one piece of land and the school loan. At 29 years and 4 days, we're working on it :) As for the performance machine, I'm still subsisting ona Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450MHz) and a Diamond Viper 330 which doesn't accelerate in X (I bought it before I met Linux), a mammoth NEC 5FGp 17" boat of a monitor, and several other lesser machines which make great servers. Happy New Year and Merry Christmas (day 10) Matt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
