Linux is always fun

Thats the sort of thing that makes it so much fun

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Recuperate pronto, chocolatito
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The first Linux I installed was Redhat 3, its come a long way since then

The 'easy' way to fix Grub is to install Ubuntu to a usb flash drive on that computer and tell the installer to put grub on the main hard drive.
Then boot into one of the Linux distros on the main hard drive, with the flash drive removed, and update grub. .

There are other more correct ways to do the same thing, but they're way more technical. .

WHAT? You DESTROYED Semi's Chocolatito Lapito, Teresa?
And with Linux no less. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Scared.gif -
That's doubly destroyed!

Semi ... Why Why WHY did you let a Linux NEWBIE mess around with installing Linux on your Laptop? http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Scared.gif -

Oh well, hopefully Aadil, DH and whoever else, can help you Un-Destroy Semi's Chocolatito.

Speaking of MESSING UP a computer, I have to leave now to go check on my Dell at my sister's house. My brother-in-law's Idiot Scumball daughter did something to it and now it doesn't work.

Hopefully she didn't burn up the Power Supply.
At the very least, it's probably seriously infected.
I'm Off.

Okay, I'm back. Good News and Bad News.
The Good News is that the Power Supply seems to be working.
I can see the Power On LED just fine.
The 2 Fans appear to work.

The Bad News is NOTHING else works.
No display. No Hard Drive Activity as evidenced by the Hard Drive Activity LED NOT blinking.

From what I understand, that Idiot Jackass Hoodlum Chick went in there without permission and used the Dell to supposedly "just charge my i-Pod." Yeah Right. I know better. She is a world class liar. She was there to illegally download songs. I know this because she was trying to teach my niece how to do that the other day. I told my niece on that day that NO! Do NOT be doing that because not only was that illegal, but she was gonna get my Dell computer infected.

And now here we are. My Dell screwed up.
Screwed up worse than being infected. At least if it was infected, I could perform a reinstall and have it up & running.
But, no, I cannot even get to the point of the Dell acknowledging the Windows Reinstall CD.

My brother-in-law says that apparently at 1st only the Wireless Mouse & Wireless Keyboard had stopped working.
THEN the No Display soon followed.

My preliminary troubleshooting seems to indicate that very likely when that Idiot Nitwit Slimeball Chick hooked up her i-Pod to my Dell to supposedly just charge it, something went seriously wrong somehow and she blew the USB circuitry. I think she even blew the USB Laser Mouse because I just tried it on my HP Pavilion computer a while ago and it doesn't work.

Pues si había riesgo. Yo lo sabía.
Pero esto se pudiera haber evitado. Les advertí mas de una vez, la última vez como la semana pasada ... que no dejaran a esa Lunática atocar esa computadora, que yo no quería que ni atocara mi computadora porque no tenía nada de negocio ni metiéndose en ese cuarto. Yo y mi Dad tuvimos que hacer reparaciones a ese cuarto que resultaron de las locuras de esa excusa para una mujer.

El único negocio que debe tener esa mujer en esa casa es de como 2 veces a la semana a visitar a su niño, bajo la supervisión de mi hermana y mi cuñado porque le quitaron su niño porque en una de sus muchas locuras ... navajió, she stabbed her sort of boyfriend NINE times! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Scared.gif -

So yes, her only business in that house was supposed to be to visit her son twice a week. She had NO business being on the computer or even in the computer room for that matter. That also infuriates me, that there she was in the very room that my Dad & I had to repair a wall and a door that were badly damaged in one of her many lunatic, psychotic episodes.

I had stressed to my sister that since my Dad & I had had to fix her destruction, she shouldn't even be allowed in that room for ANY reason. Her son isn't in there. And yet, now she has managed to destroy what was going to be my more advanced computer.

Oh well, the Popcorn I just finished was very good! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Yahoo.gif -

A burnt out computer?

No, not burnt out, Aadil.
I HAD dreaded that she might have burnt the Power Supply when I was told over the phone that now nothing worked, no display. But, nah. The Power Supply appears to be fine. The Green indicator on the Power Switch does come on. The CPU Fan and the Power Supply Fan appear to work ... or at least I hear some Fan activity. Just no display and zero Hard Drive Activity.

Not that I think it's going to work, but I'll try Booting it up in the morning. Sometimes on some rare occasions, problems go away after having the computer Powered Down for a good long time. Plus, MAYBE when I'm possibly more calm tomorrow, I'll be able to think more clearly and maybe something will come to mind to try that I haven't yet.

Anyway, Teresa, I'm glad you were finally able to remove that MESS from Semi's Chocolatito and install Windows XP SP3 Professional.

Maybe I'm not meant to have newish computers.
They can't seem to replace my trusty Dinos. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -
It's like my Dinos fight back ... "This is OUR house! Not YOUR house!" http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif - So they then hire some Lunatic Psychotic Chick to go and sabotage my latest Newcomer computer.

I guess Chocolatito's keyboard is about as difficult to use as those stupid curved "Ergonomic" keyboards. Those are ridiculous. That's what my sister & brother-in-law had on my Dell. Well, actually they only had that because that's what came with their other computer, the one that has been in repair for a couple of forevers.

You know what this means, Teresa.
Now I don't have a 3rd computer.
Therefore that tiny, micro chance that I might have played with Linux on my 3rd computer, the Gateway, has been eliminated. Now my Gateway with its Windows 98SE is back to being my backup computer.

Pero a ver que se puede hacer.
Esta mañana me llamó mi cuñado a ver si había podido arreglar la Dell yo. Le dije que no, que ya le había hecho yo la lucha con todo lo que se y nomás no hace nada la computadora. So, dijo mi cuñado que, "We'll see what we can do."

Well SOMEONE owes me a computer. Unfortunately it won't be the guilty party, that lunatic chick who takes care of that. She has no money. She's facing court next month for those stabbings. And she'll probably wind up in prison or in an insane asylum.

So, by default, my sister & my brother-in-law will probably propose to have my Dell repaired since it WAS left in their care and they failed to keep lunatic chick away from it.

I'll offer them a cheaper solution. There are refurbished computers, which cost less than what it's going to cost to get the Dell repaired. Because not only will it need the Motherboard, but also ... with Windows, if the computer is out of warranty, you cannot replace the Motherboard and use the same Windows. You have to purchase a NEW Windows License.

Tienes poco razón. Si, es cierto que yo no fuí directamente imediatamente afectado por esto. Todavía tengo a mi HP Pavilion Dino funcionando bién, ahí poniéndole en friega como siempre.

El que fué directamente y imediatamente afectado fué mi cuñado. El era el que lo usaba mas. También mi sobrina quien está en el tercer grado en la escuela lo usaba poco. Mi hermana ni lo usaba. Interesantemente, el que fué mas afectado, también fué el que tuvo la mayor parte de la culpa. Si entiendo bién, mi hermana y mi sobrina ni estaban ahí en la casa cuando pasó esto. So, mi cuñado fué el que no prevenió a su hija loca de entrar a ese cuarto.

¡Que Viva El Dino!
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Originally posted by darkesthour:

The first Linux I installed was Redhat 3, its come a long way since then

Me too.

But I never got the hang of it so went back to IIRC Win 98. May have been ME -which inspired me to buy Win XP. What an abortion that was.

I'm only a recent Linux convert. UE made me a believer. I only put it on out of interest. When I found I was online (by accident) I had to check everything to see if it wasn't my imagination.

I pulled the cable off the wall.

Even so I still put my XP back on. But I was a convert by then. I have yet to look at the command line:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=19672

Originally posted by Suntana:

she'll probably wind up in prison or in an insane asylum.

There's a difference? .

Originally posted by Suntana:

with Windows, if the computer is out of warranty, you cannot replace the Motherboard and use the same Windows. You have to purchase a NEW Windows License.

The fiends! .

Originally posted by darkesthour:

The first Linux I installed was Redhat 3

I just got through with Fighting with Fedora! .
Can't get Bluetooth networking via DUN to work and it's not creating the /dev/ttyUSB channels it's supposed to so I can't use my modem! .
I finally got it online by digging my phone's usb cable out of the old junk pile! .
It's still a long way from becoming usable but it's getting there! .
I'm definitely sticking with Crunchbang Debian for my normal computing! .
If I didn't need an rpm based distro for some obscure software package, I'd have given up on Fedora altogether! .
I might try openSUSE instead though! If it proves more reliable and less troublesome then Fedora's out! .

It's partly Gnome-3's fault but mostly it's that Fedora-16 has the usbserial drive compiled in rather than as a module. And that driver only works properly as a module! .

Originally posted by qlue:

Originally posted by Suntana:
she'll probably wind up in prison or in an insane asylum.
There's a difference

Lunatic asylums are filled with the sort of people who preach evolution.

Prisons are filled with the sort of people who practice what they preach.

I think I have an old copy of Crunchbang Debian somewhere. It's good, eh?

According to TV Shows and Movies, there IS a difference between prisons and insane asylums, Aadil.

In insane asylums, the residents are supposed to be walking around all drugged up and zombie-like.

In prisons, the inmates are supposed to be somewhat drugged up, lifting weights and causing mayhem.

Linux is a thing that I try occasionally, most recently Ubuntu last year. Most of the software I use will not run on Linux so I always stick with Windows

Originally posted by darkesthour:

Most of the software I use will not run on Linux so I always stick with Windows

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Originally posted by Suntana:

Most of the software I use will not run on Linux so I always stick with Windows
And THERE you have it, Teresa.

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man." – St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491 -1557)

Give me a newbie until he's hooked I will have him for the rest of his life aught to be the motto of Microsoft. Instead they have patent laws, FUD and secret deals with the top hardware suppliers.

The people who HAVE to pay for it don't quibble because it is a tax deductible loss. Governments don't quibble because Microsoft offers them such sweet deals.

Why do you suppose Tony Blair had Bill Gates knighted. An American with no ties to Britain, that owned a company that paid almost no taxes here and that has all its produce installed on our government's agencies' computers.

How did that happen when we had produced the first computer geniuses, the first elctro-mechanical data sorter, the Manchester Ferranti and the likes of Tim Berners-Lee?

I have no objection to Windows. What I object to is being sold to it when I was too ignorant to know better.

Any government which utilises a paid for operating system when it could be supporting its own development is asleep at the wheel.

And that explains the mess the world is in, does it not?
People too frightened to try new things.
People scared of the dark.
People who hate people.

I wasn't getting at him. He has made his mind up and decided after some consideration. It's a free choice and anyone who says anything about his right to make it is a fool.

What Microsoft has succeeded in doing is getting a monopoly that people are too shy of breaking free from. And these people are hampered by their employers, governments and all sorts.

I am a fanboi. But only so far as I like to complain and have just cause, not because I have found a system more reliable and easier to use. I haven't.

What I have found is a system that takes less nursing all the time. And one that doesn't turn me into a criminal by default. When I think of the hours wasted trying to keep ahead of the curve with antiviruses and firewalls.

I don't even think about that stuff anymore. No more free offers on proversions to nag me. No more wondering if a site is safe to visit. No more fear of downloads.

And no more thinking about any of that either.

But he is right about the downside. I want to use my scanner bt I will have to open Windows for that. Here is an eye opener about what even dyed in the wool techies think wrongly about sometimes:

Originally posted by Linux Magazine:

What Vista Gets Right

It took five years, 10,000 employees, and (allegedly) billions of dollars. It contains some 50 million lines of code. Yes, it's Windows Vista, and it's finally here. And guess what?

In some ways, Vista has Linux beat.

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4090/

I wonder how long it took him to get over writing that.

It has 8 GB of my disc wrapped up doing nothing on a Laptop I hate to use. I think I will take it for repair and ask if it is worth the bother. And then I will try Puppy on it since you esteem that distro.

Let me know what you think when you have compared some of the larger distros.

Scared? Not in the slightest.
As I've mentioned before, I've learned things before just as if not more complicated than learning Linux.

Lazy? Nah.
As I alluded to before, I currently don't have a reason to want to learn Linux.

It's like for example. If I was going to buy a new vehicle right now, I wouldn't buy a truck. I have no use or need for a truck at this point. There's this guy I know who has TWO trucks. The type of guy he is, he has zero use for even 1 truck, let alone two. He doesn't carry anything. Heck, he's even scared of scratching the truck beds. WHY did he buy TWO trucks? It wouldn't have been as ridiculous if he had kept things at having 1 car and 1 truck.

Anyway, I can't speak for other countries, but here in the USA, when you apply for jobs, you're very likely to be asked if you know how to use WINDOWS. They're not going to ask you if you know how to use Linux. IF one day Linux somehow manages to catch up to Windows as to what gets used in the mainstream arena in the typical job here in the USA and companies suddenly started requiring knowledge of it equally as much as Windows ... THEN I'd have a reason to learn Linux.

Remember, that's exactly what happened to me when it finally became evident that I had to make the transition from MSDOS to Windows. The reason to learn Windows was finally there. Right now the reason, the need to learn Linux has not yet materialized ... for me anyway.

But, don't mind me, Teresa. Proceed with your Linux experiments. I'm just messing with you ... just like you mess with me. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin.gif - Just making conversation. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

Lunatic asylums are filled with the sort of people who preach evolution.Prisons are filled with the sort of people who practice what they preach.

Originally posted by Suntana:

In insane asylums, the residents are supposed to be walking around all drugged up and zombie-like.In prisons, the inmates are supposed to be somewhat drugged up, lifting weights and causing mayhem.

I work in a prison and the number of inmates on prescription medicine for mental disorders is only surpassed by the number of Correctional Officers on prescription medicines for mental disorders! .

Originally posted by darkesthour:

Most of the software I use will not run on Linux

Most of the bootleg software that my colleagues use is not needed when running Linux. I don't understand why, after buying the OS, you still have to buy Nero, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Norton and a dozen other bits of software before you have a functional system. .
Even the software supplied with the system has to be paid for to unlock it's full functionality.
(hence the reason all Windows users resort to bootlegging around here!)

Originally posted by Suntana:

Anyway, I can't speak for other countries, but here in the USA, when you apply for jobs, you're very likely to be asked if you know how to use WINDOWS.

They usually ask if you are "computer literate" here. By that they mean, "do you know how to type in Microsoft Word and how to use Microsoft Excell?"
Ironically, neither is included with Windows but have to be purchased separately as part of the Microsoft Office package. .

Originally posted by Weatherlawyer:

I think I have an old copy of Crunchbang Debian somewhere. It's good, eh?

The current version is based on Debian Stable. (Squeeze) It might balk on newer hardware as with any other Debian based distro. The solution is to upgrade to squeeze-backports version.
It's a very basic system with no frills and no true desktop, just a window manager.
But it's not to everyone's liking for that reason. .
People tend to prefer complex, bloated systems with wibbly-wobbly windows and other resource draining yet superfluous fancy effects! .
For that I recommend Commodore OS Vision, except that it's only available in a 64bit version! .

Originally posted by qlue:

I work in a prison and the number of inmates on prescription medicine for mental disorders is only surpassed by the number of Correctional Officers on prescription medicines for mental disorders!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=I+work+in+a+prison+and+the+number+of+inmates+on+prescription+medicine+for+mental+disorders+is+only+surpassed+by+the+number+of+Correctional+Officers+on+prescription+medicines+for+mental+disorders!&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

Must have something to do with the desperation required for a man to have to go to prison for a living.

I couldn't imagine a more soul destroying occupation. The only people who would enjoy it are...

Ooh!

Changes subject rapidly.