SlashNET Forum with Marcel Gagne

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SlashNET Forum with Marcel Gagne

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday February 23, 2004 @06:46AM from the getting-to-know dept.

weebl writes "SlashNET is pleased to announce an upcoming forum with Marcel Gagne. He writes the 'Cooking with Linux' column every month for Linux Journal magazine. His first book was the acclaimed Linux System Administration: A User's Guide. Recently he wrote a book called Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!, which is intended for consumer desktop users who are curious about Linux and want to give it a test run. The forum will be held on Monday February 23, 2004 at 8PM US Eastern Standard Time (-0500). As usual, the forum will be held in #forum. You will be able to submit questions both before and during the forum which will be used to guide the discussion."

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Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goobye... by jetkust · 2004-02-23 06:48 · Score: 4, Funny

...Say Hello to the Installation Screen of Torture.
1. Re:Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goobye... by October_30th · 2004-02-23 07:03 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm going to install Gentoo on my dual Opteron tonight. So, I guess the next time you see me, I've become one of those annoying Gentoo fanatics.
  Maybe I should start practising already. "Emerge!". How's that?
  
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2. Re:Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goobye... by IWorkForMorons · 2004-02-23 07:22 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Right then. So I guess we won't get to see you for about the next three weeks....
oui oui! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 06:50 · Score: 1, Funny

you bring the bottle of wine, I'll bring the bag of...
BSOD isn't *that* unfriendly... by PornMaster · 2004-02-23 06:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I can imagine the shit in the pants of a neophyte who sees "kernel panic" on their screen.

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Linux Users by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 06:56 · Score: 3, Funny

His first book was the acclaimed Linux System Administration: A User's Guide.
"Linux Users: A System Administrator's Guide" would be more acclaimed.
Re:The Blue Screen of Death by curtisk · 2004-02-23 07:04 · Score: 3, Funny

I have seen some recently on winXP pro and they actually were due to hardware issues, so yeah they still exist, but nothing like their glory days of the win9x series. Beating the "BSOD" joke to death is old hat and really not current for a current book.
OTOH, my new book "Saying goodbye to Exception Errors and emm386 by moving to Linux" should be on bookshelves soon.

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Re:The Blue Screen of Death by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 07:06 · Score: 2, Funny

the blue screen has been replaced with a much friendlier technology. spontanius reboot. no blue screen, no newbie wondering which keys to press, no hassle, just a machine doing a reboot and will be finished booting in a few minutes to let you get back to work.
Re:Distributions by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-23 07:10 · Score: 1, Funny

If everything works with XP, why are you switching?
Cooking With Linux? by Savatte · 2004-02-23 07:42 · Score: 2, Funny

I thought they already had toasters that run linux. Or is he talking about high-end machines, like ovens?