On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:59, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > Now please stop lecturing us on what is good for a business > environment and what isn't .. because boot screens DO NOT qualify as > something to worry about in this instance. There are a great many of > us who have been in corporate environments for a great many years and > what you're saying is complete CRAP .. it's a boot screen you see for > a few seconds when you start your computer .. w00p!
First, drop the attitude. Then consider this scenario: your CEO calls you and says "I understand we've been using this Linux thing for the last eight years; I'd like to know more about it." When you explain that you run it not only on the servers in the machine room but also on your workstation and your laptop, he asks you to come to his office and show it to him. You grab your laptop bag, walk into his office, switch it on, and... first impressions are everything. I realize a lot of people actually like it (e.g. small children), but even at home, I find it silly. In any case, it's not well implemented; long menu lines extend past the "ice sheet" and f-key popup menus get corrupted if a penguin is in the area. I think the instructions for penguin neutralization bear repeating: (as root) cd /boot cp message message.original cd ~ mkdir temp cd temp cpio -iv < /boot/message [edit gfxboot.cfg and change to "penguin=0"] ls | cpio -ov > /boot/message You can always copy back message.original if you feel pangs of conscience at what you did to the penguins. I've just done it on three desktops and a laptop here at home, and it's easy and fast. I plan to do the same when I return to work after the holiday and finish upgrading our web servers and intranet to openSUSE 10.2. -- Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM) http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
