Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:22 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/11/07 19:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
The document was the "production" scheduling system... and they wanted
to keep track of what happened, without making it any different. So a
genius MCP suggested Change-tracking.
Master Control Program?
Microsoft Certified Professional
Someone that passed the "How to REALLY use Microsoft Office to the
extreme, to annoy everyone else that has to support it once you are
gone" test.
LOL!
How can anyone outside of MS support the software? If one does not
understand the internal workings, one cannot adequately support the
software.
Aside from the crashes, virus/spyware problems on Widows, the reason I
switched to GNU/Linux in the first place is so I could learn how it
worked. It bugged me that all these things were happening behind my
back and I had no idea what they were or why they were there. Some of
the information I could find on the net, but not enough to satisfy my
desires. Hacking the registry was possible, but as everyone who has run
Windows for a long time knows, after a while the registry is bloated
with all sorts of entries that are no longer valid, not to mention that
half of the entries are GUID keys, and humans (at least this one) are
not good at reading them. The Uninstall features of programs don't
always uninstall everything... I could write a long list. This isn't
about Windows.
Now as far as this thread goes, I still think Kubuntu was a good
distribution, however, Feisty is focused almost exclusively on laptops,
which is good because wireless and pcmcia support is needed in a
laptop. I however don't have a working laptop (My power cord fried my
battery and both need replacing). I use desktop machines, and I don't
want or need either of those things.
Etch had no problem identifying all of the hardware on my machine. I do
still get the APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) but I have yet to find a distro
that didn't generate that error, and it's pretty harmless.
I am looking forward to sifting through all the books and learning the
command line like the old DOS days. GUI's are great for getting things
done quickly, but I prefer the power of the command line, and some tasks
are far easier to do on the command line than through mouse clicks.
Konsole is my second most used program.
Before I decided on Etch, I was toying with the idea of installing
Gentoo. I still might do that, but only on a spare PC because I don't
want to have my main computer crashing on me because I forgot to include
this USE flag or that USE flag. Since I am not very familiar with GCC
yet, I thought it best to get more up to speed with Linux before I try.
Of course one of the best ways to get up to speed is to try.
At least now I know how to do most of the things that I need, and can
write bash scripts much more powerful than the batch files I used on
Windows. However, I think it will take me years to really understand
how everything works. By the time I get udev down, a new system will
take its place :) Look at all the references to LILO in the Official
Debian Reference. I've never used it. It's been grub since I started.
Joe
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