So the the rest of the world only exists to make Americans happy? Arabs have to make Americans happy. Europeans have to make Americans happy. Asians have to make Americans happy. I live in the wealthy west but all I see is the Bible-belt versus the Koran-belt. I think that the FBI are looking for you as an accomplice to Timothy McVeigh.
I recently received a celeron333 into which I put a 4G ide and a 4G scsi with 32M ram and a 16x ide cdrom. Not so good, nor so bad. I have been attempting to install linux on this machine. Second attempt at redhat 7.0 got a system that was as slow as OS/2 v2, first attempt at mandrake got me a machine that ran well but with a virtual desktop that was larger than the real desktop. Could I change it? almost certainly but I looked and I looked and I looked. Everything that I did find seemed to think that it was a service rather than a bug. It wouldn't be a bug if you could other-click it and say I want to change it. I have installed both systems three times and the last time it said to remove the boot media and when it wouldn't actually open the CD I forced it open and removed the boot media. Very satisfying. Best moment in the whole weekend actually.
So what is my point? I am not a klunk, I was programming CDC Cyber 1700 in machine code in 1976 for a job. (that is machine code and not assembler). I used to use Linux when it was Red Hat 2. Couldn't get the printer to work. I have used damn near every operating system that I can think of. Even Mac (wash my mouth). And I can't do a simple install of Linux on a totally dedicated machine with published help.
Vanity publishing rules! Publish and be damned because I will be there cheering you on. The publishing houses work to an economy and the vanities work to an idea. Isn't that the point of Linux?
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So the the rest of the world only exists to make Americans happy? Arabs have to make Americans happy. Europeans have to make Americans happy. Asians have to make Americans happy. I live in the wealthy west but all I see is the Bible-belt versus the Koran-belt. I think that the FBI are looking for you as an accomplice to Timothy McVeigh.
For a silly question this has really turned up some of the most interesting answers that I have seen for a while.
I recently received a celeron333 into which I put a 4G ide and a 4G scsi with 32M ram and a 16x ide cdrom. Not so good, nor so bad. I have been attempting to install linux on this machine. Second attempt at redhat 7.0 got a system that was as slow as OS/2 v2, first attempt at mandrake got me a machine that ran well but with a virtual desktop that was larger than the real desktop. Could I change it? almost certainly but I looked and I looked and I looked. Everything that I did find seemed to think that it was a service rather than a bug. It wouldn't be a bug if you could other-click it and say I want to change it. I have installed both systems three times and the last time it said to remove the boot media and when it wouldn't actually open the CD I forced it open and removed the boot media. Very satisfying. Best moment in the whole weekend actually. So what is my point? I am not a klunk, I was programming CDC Cyber 1700 in machine code in 1976 for a job. (that is machine code and not assembler). I used to use Linux when it was Red Hat 2. Couldn't get the printer to work. I have used damn near every operating system that I can think of. Even Mac (wash my mouth). And I can't do a simple install of Linux on a totally dedicated machine with published help. Vanity publishing rules! Publish and be damned because I will be there cheering you on. The publishing houses work to an economy and the vanities work to an idea. Isn't that the point of Linux?