On Monday, June 24, 2013 15:21:26, Mark Wallace wrote: > In the abstract on the learning thing, I agree with you. But the couple > of hours is less than it often takes to post your problem on a web site > and get some feedback. It depends on whether you have a report due in > the morning or if your system is the one that your clerical person makes > appointments and does bookkeeping on. If it is, you might not have the > time to start geeking around.
If I have a report due in the morning, I would never do a resintall then -- I'd use a different computer. There aren't many situations in which I think reinstalling to get around a problem makes much sense to me. There are some though -- like I'm working to reinstall my laptop, because I want to change filesystems and setup cryptfs + LVM. Right now I'm using cryptfs + XFS on top; XFS is fast but the boot-time fsck is a no-op so it won't auto-fix the filesystem on unclean shutdown, and instead files fromfrom /tmp (at minimum) end up in /lost+found. This has proven to be a bit too much of a headache for my tastes. And I'm also still working on rewiriting a new EDID for the LCD panel in this laptop because the one in the LCD panel internally has an error and other solutions still haven't sufficiently worked for what I need. [This isn't something that a reinstall is going to help.] One of the interesting things about this is that I'm not able to find sufficient tools for Linux to rewrite an EDID -- I'm getting the feeling that I'm soon going to be writing an ncurses-based tool to do this. > By comparison, reinstalling XP and doing all of the updates will > probably be weekend long experience. About a day for Windows 7. Don't > get me started on Windows 8, I call it "The Ubuntu marketer". Supposedly Windows 8.1 is going to re-introduce the Start menu, so hopefully that'll be a bit more palatable. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jul 10 - Mad Science Fair - Open Hardware Expo Aug 7 - Scripting Your World with Python Oct 2 - OpenFlow: Open Standard for Networking Hardware
