Linux - A thing of wonder

**wossname** · Mar 9th, 2006, 03:51 PM

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

**space_monkey** · Mar 9th, 2006, 03:56 PM

**mendhak** · Mar 9th, 2006, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

Wossy, you are my sunshine. My only sunshine.

**penagate** · Mar 9th, 2006, 06:13 PM

n00b.

Sorry... just had to

**oceanebelle** · Mar 9th, 2006, 08:12 PM

my sympathies...

**|2eM!x** · Mar 9th, 2006, 08:45 PM

Open the box up, take out the bios and scratch off the really small print that says linux, it will remove it from your system

**wild_bill** · Mar 9th, 2006, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by wossname

*no beer left...cries*

Figure out a way to transfer alcohol via tcp or ftp and I'll hook you up!

**visualAd** · Mar 10th, 2006, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

Knoppix doesn't work on laptops from the 60's

**visualAd** · Mar 10th, 2006, 02:49 AM

I told you to download the virtual machine; installing linux on a laptop can be a pain in the arse especially for beginners. Stop being a whimp.

**NoteMe** · Mar 10th, 2006, 07:22 AM

Hahahha...what did I tell you. HAhaha...I will laugh at you for ever now...

**wossname** · Mar 10th, 2006, 07:41 AM

Thats fair I suppose, I've been laughing at you for months.

**wossname** · Mar 10th, 2006, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by visualAd

I told you to download the virtual machine; installing linux on a laptop can be a pain in the arse especially for beginners. Stop being a whimp.

Virtual machines, PHP, javascript, web development, wow you really are living dangerously arent you.

**gigemboy** · Mar 10th, 2006, 07:50 AM

I had a brief brush with Linux back in the late nineties. After a couple of weeks, had similar probs as you, and chunked it. Good to know that after 7+ years it still gives the same headaches

**NoteMe** · Mar 10th, 2006, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by wossname

Thats fair I suppose, I've been laughing at you for months.

What are you lauging at? That I both have a life and can handle Linux when you don't have and can't...

OUCH: that one must have hurt..

**wossname** · Mar 10th, 2006, 02:27 PM

Yeah it did a bit.

**baja_yu** · Mar 11th, 2006, 12:49 PM

Wow. That's bad. How did you manage to screw it up so badly?

Me, I prefer Slackware distribution.

**mendhak** · Mar 11th, 2006, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by NoteMe

What are you lauging at? That I both have a life and can handle Linux when you don't have and can't...

OUCH: that one must have hurt..

By life, you mean your endless routine of moralless prostitution of yourself based upon the lifestyles exhibited in mindless videos created by your favorite marginally talented artists such as Lindsay Lohan and Christina Aguilera and Beyonce?

OUCH... did that hurt more?

**I_Love_My_Vans** · Mar 11th, 2006, 03:19 PM

Ubunto + VMWare for me, thanks VisualMum

**tr333** · Mar 12th, 2006, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by wild_bill

Figure out a way to transfer alcohol via tcp or ftp and I'll hook you up!

Code:

ftp your.server.com
type drink
!cd drinks
cd drinks
put alcohol
bye

wget ftp://your.server.com/drinks/alcohol

**tr333** · Mar 12th, 2006, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

why bother with something like suse??

Ubuntu has just released flight 5 (alpha release) of Ubuntu Dapper (6.04). The final release is due sometime in April/May. Easier to install than other distros (and WindowsXP), and looks a lot better too.

for any HDD problems, i use tomsrtbt - the most GNU/Linux on a floppy disk.

**Shaggy Hiker** · Mar 12th, 2006, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by mendhak

By life, you mean your endless routine of moralless prostitution of yourself based upon the lifestyles exhibited in mindless videos created by your favorite marginally talented artists such as Lindsay Lohan and Christina Aguilera and Beyonce?

OUCH... did that hurt more?

Prostitutes get paid. He's more of the gigelow type.....sounds like fun to me.

**Pradeep1210** · Mar 12th, 2006, 01:16 PM

Same SUSE linux!! I had installed linux and windows on 2 seperate physical harddisks on my system. When linux crashed, it also erased my windows partitions. Since then I've taken oath not to touch linux again.

**penagate** · Mar 12th, 2006, 01:18 PM

Why do you people let one bad experience with one particular distro affect your perception of the entire (and extremely diverse, I might add) family of products

**big blue alien** · Mar 12th, 2006, 01:24 PM

SUSE 10 is great it was easy to install and easy to use, not had a problem with it. i've had loads of problems getting linux to run but it just makes you feel better when it does work

**grilkip** · Feb 17th, 2007, 11:45 AM

bump

**litlewiki** · Feb 17th, 2007, 11:51 AM

Finally,Linux won .

**TomGibbons** · Feb 18th, 2007, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by litlewiki

Finally,Linux won .

Was there ever any doubt, really?

**Atheist** · Feb 18th, 2007, 06:58 PM

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

**penagate** · Feb 19th, 2007, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by Atheist

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

Volvo drivers are allowed to say that Ferraris are better.

**timeshifter** · Feb 19th, 2007, 12:48 AM

Your IE7 link rocks, by the way.

**Atheist** · Feb 19th, 2007, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by penagate

Volvo drivers are allowed to say that Ferraris are better.

Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

**Arrow_Raider** · Feb 19th, 2007, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Atheist

Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

Not when time is money

**penagate** · Feb 19th, 2007, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Atheist

Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

Yes... that analogy doesn't extend very far.

**TomGibbons** · Feb 19th, 2007, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by Atheist

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

I both praise and use Linux. My servers run it, as do the desktops and laptop in my house. Woss runs it on his server and desktop.

I know many people who use it. What's your point?

**Atheist** · Feb 19th, 2007, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by TomGibbons

I both praise and use Linux. My servers run it, as do the desktops and laptop in my house. Woss run's it on his server and desktop.

I know many people who use it. What's your point?

What my point is?

I dont know how to make it any clearer...

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

No need to get offended or anything it was just a thought, since this is what I have experienced.

**TomGibbons** · Feb 19th, 2007, 09:06 PM

You should give it a try. I use Windows for nothing anymore... nothing apart from .net. I have Windows installed in a VM so that I have access to the Visual Studio.net IDE. I mostly use PHP and C++ for my development but it's always nice to play with .net once it a while.

I've heard a lot of people talking over the years about how great Slackware is. I installed it about 4 days ago. I can't say that I was massively impressed. Comes with Fluxbox which is nice. I ended up removing it. I'm trying CentOS (RHEL clone) on one of my servers right now - quite nice. I'm keeping Fedora on my desktops and laptop for now.

**Atheist** · Feb 19th, 2007, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by TomGibbons

You should give it a try. I use Windows for nothing anymore... nothing apart from .net. I have Windows installed in a VM so that I have access to the Visual Studio.net IDE. I mostly use PHP and C++ for my development but it's always nice to play with .net once it a while.

hmm perhaps I should someday

VM...does that stand for virtual machine? Does that slow things down? I mean, compared to running windows "regularly"?

**TomGibbons** · Feb 19th, 2007, 09:16 PM

Yeah VM stands for virtual machine. I don't find that it slows things down. I have 4 GB of RAM in my server and a pretty fast processor, I dedicate a large portion to my VM while I'm using it. All I use it for is .net and I have no problem.

**chemicalNova** · Feb 20th, 2007, 02:57 AM

Dear god, the thought of wossy not using linux is mindblowing..

chem

**wossname** · Feb 27th, 2007, 09:28 AM

It certainly is.

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