Re: iDRMRSR - linuxystuff
iDRMRSR
it survived.<<
You will eventually cause the bifurcation of this timeline if you continue
your abuse of the information vector!
BTW...had no success bringing up UBUNTU on my laptop (no touchpad, no
wireless). Have found a new Distro out there (Saboyan) which promises
lesser such troubles. Sent for disk as distro is only available on some
torrent or other, and I stay off those things so as not to risk being
visited by the Black Helicopters.
Should arrive post Xmas.
PS...to see a summary of my Desktop UBUNTU experiences, viddy my MySpace
blog. In which I seem to be quite passionate about the whole affair.
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Leonard The Committed
> wireless). Have found a new Distro out there (Saboyan) which promises
> lesser such troubles. Sent for disk as distro is only available on some
> torrent or other, and I stay off those things so as not to risk being
> visited by the Black Helicopters.
Quit fucking around already and use Slackware! It's not too quirky to set
up and is more stable than a 400lb welfare mom in line for free cheese.
KRONOS
Rich Clark, aka Left Rev Egg Plant, ULC, CotSG
> On 21 Dec 2006 22:29:26 -0500, in reply to KRONOS <nu...@void.com>:
> cross over is not as great as I feared it would be. Linux, to me, will
> remain a tinker-toy.
If it weren't for the dearth of tools necessary to do my transcription
job, with word expansion being the biggest hurdle in the way, I'd be
running Linux full-time. To call Linux a tinker-toy is a massive gaffe
on your part, mister. I'll see you in court.
Sacre Bleu
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:14:31 -0500, in reply to "Rich Clark, aka Left
> Rev Egg Plant, ULC, CotSG" <spamme...@rrclark.net>:
> Truly, I would like to see Linux win, but seriously getting software
> running on it is a hassle. Dependancies!!!!! ARRGGH.
>
> Well, maybe I chose the wrong distro for that sort of thing, but
> consider this: Mr. Average Joe Blow struggles enough with his computer
> in Windows country without having to wallow in the horrors that await
> him in Linux. So much of computing is counter-intuitive that it's just
> wrong, wrong, wrong. I've got a degree in Computer Science and spend
> my days with my arms deep in design and code, yet computing is still a
> mindfuck.
>
> Maybe we really are better off with an Apple. Though I'm sure someone
> can point out that there's turds-a-plenty in that barrel too.
I await to see this list of 'issues' w/ OSX...
iDRMRSR
trail for Windoze folks, the things that will cause US to rip out our hair
more than the Linux command prompt:
1. Copy a folder to a folder with the same name elsewhere. OSX destroys
the old folder (instead of merging the files). INSTANT coronary for a
Windows user.
2. Closing windows does not stop the application. Slow death for a Windoze
user.
3. Dragging a file to a blank CDR to back it up just puts a LINK to the
file on the CD. Like Polonium 210 for us Windoze folks.
4. Cannot MAXIMIZE a window. WTF?
5. Many applications open SEVERAL small windows at once. WTF?
6. Only one FINDER open at a time. Kill me now, before I buy a Mac Mini.
7. CTRL DRAG to actually copy a file's contents. AIEEEEE.
8. Hidden .DS_store files splattered all over your disk.
No thanks.
BTW, I took Leonard's advice and tried this distro:
The LiveCD actually ALMOST WORKED on my laptop. I could get the wireless
card to connect. Sort of. Still can't reach the internet, but there's
still time THIS YEAR to solve that problem.
It's a cute and FAST distro with KDE. Looks rilly nice, like the girls in
those Russian mailorder bride pix, but once you get it
home...arrrrggghhhh...
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Rich Clark, aka Left Rev Egg Plant, ULC, CotSG
> Truly, I would like to see Linux win, but seriously getting software
> running on it is a hassle. Dependancies!!!!! ARRGGH.
I thought tools like yast, apt, yum, urpmi, etc, were meant to solve
those problems. Obviously you need to do further research.
> Well, maybe I chose the wrong distro for that sort of thing, but
> consider this: Mr. Average Joe Blow struggles enough with his computer
> in Windows country without having to wallow in the horrors that await
> him in Linux. So much of computing is counter-intuitive that it's just
> wrong, wrong, wrong. I've got a degree in Computer Science and spend
> my days with my arms deep in design and code, yet computing is still a
> mindfuck.
Which distro are you using, mister? I very infrequently deal with
dependency problems, and don't find them too difficult to solve when I
do run into them. It's just a matter of being adept in the use of Google
in most cases. A bit of applied learning seems necessary in all cases.
> Maybe we really are better off with an Apple. Though I'm sure someone
> can point out that there's turds-a-plenty in that barrel too.
I dunno. I've very limited Apple experience, so that would be like my
giving an opinion on the state of crop futures in Myanmar.
Rich Clark, aka Left Rev Egg Plant, ULC, CotSG
> BTW, I took Leonard's advice and tried this distro:
>
> http://www.slax.org
>
> The LiveCD actually ALMOST WORKED on my laptop. I could get the wireless
> card to connect. Sort of. Still can't reach the internet, but there's
> still time THIS YEAR to solve that problem.
Only three things are absolutely necessary to get networking running on
any OS: IP address, gateway address, dns server. Or install the
necessary dhcp components and cut out all the guesswork.