A fortnight since I last wrote and I have absolutely no idea what I did. Anyway, a few things I do remember is that I played with Ubuntu-5.04 and not sure what to thing.
On one machine it installed ok, on another it couldn't psyche out the X so left me at the command line. On my my machine, the live CD fired up fine, but on trying to install it, the partitioner couldn't find my partitions. Too hard, gave up!
By far the best live CD so far has been the Knoppix series, and Mandrake still the best for general use, though I was bitterly disappointed with the 2005LE as having 'nothing in it'
Planning a cycling trip to Bundanoon, Sydney and then Dungog, 11 days in all. Should be interesting and give me something to write aboy
22.8.05
10.8.05
On the Buses
People travelling together on buses will invariably yabber away and often it's not possible to avoid overhearing their conversations.
One memorable communication between to 70 plus yo ladies went like this.
Lady A: I just been to the doctor and he told me I had mixelpsychobronchialengineitis.
Lady B: Oh yes, I had that last week, but the more severe variety of it!
Another two old ducks had apparantly been to their local community hall to do weight training, but today's training was fraught with drama.
Mr X had taken all the thingamebobs, and the trainer suggested he share them as it wasn't fair he hog them. Mr X was none too pleased with this, and the group started to castigate him for his selfihness. In the end he relented and let someone have one thingamebob.
Not good enough, so the public humilation started all over and in the end Mr X threw all the thingamebobs on the floor, took his 'red ticket' and left in a huff.
Hope I don't get like that when I'm seventy odd.
One memorable communication between to 70 plus yo ladies went like this.
Lady A: I just been to the doctor and he told me I had mixelpsychobronchialengineitis.
Lady B: Oh yes, I had that last week, but the more severe variety of it!
Days of our lives
Another two old ducks had apparantly been to their local community hall to do weight training, but today's training was fraught with drama.
Mr X had taken all the thingamebobs, and the trainer suggested he share them as it wasn't fair he hog them. Mr X was none too pleased with this, and the group started to castigate him for his selfihness. In the end he relented and let someone have one thingamebob.
Not good enough, so the public humilation started all over and in the end Mr X threw all the thingamebobs on the floor, took his 'red ticket' and left in a huff.
Hope I don't get like that when I'm seventy odd.
1.8.05
Installfest
Bought a 233MHz P2 in 1998 with a 2.1 GByte HDD. It started off as a W95 machine and later became a W98 one. Also bought a MicroTek Scanmaster X6 in 2000.
By 2000 I had started to become interested in Linux and as the years went on, the W98 system was used only for scanning, ye olde X6 didn't work with Linux. Eventually the 233 became too slow for some of the stuff I wanted to do (how about 8 hours + to build Qt!) so I purchased a AMD XP2600 and with 500 Meg of memory, it seems to do almost all I want quite quickly and effeciently.
Yesterday I bought a router, and today, a beautiful day that should have been spent outdoors, was taken up re-commissioning the P2. Put the old 2.1 G HDD back in, and reinstalled W98, the scanner software, the USB software and the Nero CD stuff.
In a caddy there is an 8Gig HDD (they were the largest things in 1998!!!) Installing Slackware at the moment on that although I think I stuffed the partition sizes up so I'll have to do it again, but just doing it to see what Slackware is like.
The router gave me trouble, my ssh sessions were being terminated with idleness, but found in the man ssh_config file a keep alive option and set that to 180 seconds and that problem was fixed.
Also had a big clean up and threw out heaps of CDs, cor you collect a lot of rubbish over time. So that was Sunday. Homage to the great god computer!
By 2000 I had started to become interested in Linux and as the years went on, the W98 system was used only for scanning, ye olde X6 didn't work with Linux. Eventually the 233 became too slow for some of the stuff I wanted to do (how about 8 hours + to build Qt!) so I purchased a AMD XP2600 and with 500 Meg of memory, it seems to do almost all I want quite quickly and effeciently.
Yesterday I bought a router, and today, a beautiful day that should have been spent outdoors, was taken up re-commissioning the P2. Put the old 2.1 G HDD back in, and reinstalled W98, the scanner software, the USB software and the Nero CD stuff.
In a caddy there is an 8Gig HDD (they were the largest things in 1998!!!) Installing Slackware at the moment on that although I think I stuffed the partition sizes up so I'll have to do it again, but just doing it to see what Slackware is like.
The router gave me trouble, my ssh sessions were being terminated with idleness, but found in the man ssh_config file a keep alive option and set that to 180 seconds and that problem was fixed.
Also had a big clean up and threw out heaps of CDs, cor you collect a lot of rubbish over time. So that was Sunday. Homage to the great god computer!
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