Hi, I've been using linux I think for maybe thirteen years or so - started with RedHat 2 if I remember. Install was miserable having to use rawwrite and numerous other floppies. Ubuntu just goes in smoothly though. I always run into problems w/ the wireless driver so usually attach lan before I start and download it and it works.
I've never set up a server. I couldn't afford an account or the electric. But I still use a console most of the time. I just found tin still working and my old newsgroups after 10 years, still stumbling along. But they're down from 14000+ to 9000+ and I don't know how many are active. Always loved tin for the simplicity of the arrow-key commands, holdovers probably from things like menu-drive gopher. Ah well, that dates me, back to the new-fangled telgraph and it sounds terrible you've lost your job - I wish I could do something for you. love Alan On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, James Morris wrote: > nn n > n n n > n nn > n networking is something I've never taken much interest in. > in 2011 i will be able to say i've been using linux for ten years > > y y > y y > y > y > yesterday i got out of bed at midnight after not being in bed for > very long and not sleeping. > > iii > i > i > i > iii lost my job, was made redundant, but i was on a temporary > contract. i can stay up all night now if i like, and stay up all > day too. > > n n > nn n > n nn > n nfs i used to backup files from the laptop to the desktop. i > got bored and transferred some to a memory stick and did it that > way while i waited. > > ttttt > t > t > t > then i setup an ssh server on the desktop and turned the desktop > off by typing a command into the laptop. > > m m > mm mm > m m m > m my girlfriend was very excited when i told her that i turned > 'emily' off by typing a command into her laptop. > > y y > y y > y > y > yesterday i downloaded several linux distributions. systemrescuecd, > clonezilla, debian, grml. systemrescuecd turned out to be the one > i used most yesterday. > > dd > d d > d d > d d > dddefragging vista ntfs partitions can be confusing when you're doing > it to shrink them so you have more room for linux. > > w w > w w w > w w w w > w windows was a pain, but because it was a pain, i went to great > pains to protect myself against the worst pain of completely breaking > it and not having an install cd to re-install it. > > l > l > l > llllinux on the other hand, i use everyday not just once in a blue moon > and so i was more complacent in my handling of the partitions and decided > to copy the root partition to a new partition so that i could make the > home partition larger. > > cc > c c > c > c c > ccopying the root partition (ie all the system files) using the 'cp' > command is a very bad idea. don't every be tricked into doing it. > > iii > i > i > i > iiits a very bad idea once you realize that you must now re-install > linux and then realize that re-installing linux means working out again > how to get the broadcom bc43xx wireless networking driver working. i spent > several hours trying but failed and then went to bed. > > > -- > _ > : http://jwm-art.net/ > -audio/image/text/code > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
