Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-12-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:18:38 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > Heh. The only time I ever screwed up a UNIX box (and I've been using > UNIX for a _LONG_ time), it was actually because of Linux. > Me too. Where the heck's /etc/bin gone? :) > > Of course, to write the image to the floppy from a Sun

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:43:25AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote > I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems that all I > had to do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is lower > the default resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running > 1024x768 24- Bit color. Changing to

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
%% Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pm> - however, my dumbest stunt came from an su to root: pm> rm -fr /bin /usr pm> instead of pm> rm -fr bin usr pm> ...that one's tough to beat on the scale of dumbness. Or on the pm> scale of "negative system impact", as they say. Heh. T

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:30:05 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >You have a

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by logging into X as root, unless

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:37:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: You have a fair chance of gaining some unexp

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 20:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >>> >>> You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points >>> by logging into X as root, unless you are

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:37:56 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by >> logging into X as root, unless you are unplugging all external network >> devices first. Not allowi

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by > logging into X as root, unless you are unplugging all external network > devices first. Not allowing root access to X is pretty much at the > top of my "never, ever d

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:43:25 -0800 (PST), Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Previously, I was running 1024x768 24-Bit color. Changing to 800x600 > 16-Bit color seems to have done the trick. It's kind of a bummer not > being able to use the higher settings

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:43:25 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems > that all I had to > do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is > lower the default > resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running > 1024x768 24- > Bit color. Changing