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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 September 2004 23:38, Sadie Brinham wrote:
I thought it only civil to say a proper "Hello",as opposed to skulking anonymously,leeching from your clever Linux minds!
Nothing wrong with skulking. I've been part of the lug mailing list for a few years - yet rarely post. If there's a topic I feel strongly on I'll post. If there's something in particular that's driving me nuts - I'll post. If there's a thread which I know lots about (doesn't happen often) - I'll post. The rest of the time I just skulk here and learn about stuff I've never even thought of.
Of course,I harbour Gentoo aspirations-but at this juncture,I cannot see myself managing to compile a 100% error-free kernel.That's not to say I don't try,with tiresome persistance.
Gentoo's great :) OK, installing from stage1 can take one heck of a long time - - not really the distro to use if you need to use the box within the next couple of days :). The fact that once you've sorted out your USE flags, the system gets optimised for your hardware/preferences is to me beyond compare. Debian - well, this is what's on all my servers. nuff said really - it works. OK, the various applications may be slightly old but you can gaurentee that they'll work. Once you've built a couple of Kernels, you'll wonder what the fuss is. Always keep a liveCD (or rescueCD) handy though, everyone can mess up a Kernel build every now and again - and overwrite the working kernel :) . At least with a CD you can get back into your system and sort things out.
There is a funny side,however-XP can't "see" the drive either.This means,anyone purchasing such a computer has two options:either go beserk and demand a refund..or move on up to Linux.
This sounds more like some kind of odd firmware on the drive rather than a cylinder issue - though I could be wrong. Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWW2UsE9YhfwRqJwRAvhcAJ0Qm6M5KgVu8klupTXeEx8iB2/m4QCeJ11J /8W6aMSaxjKKpXVoIi3iSmw= =nkj1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.