OK....its official

Post #104,089 by bepatient 5/30/03 10:38:45 AM Reply	OK....its official Thanks Mike and Greg for the assistance in doing my first custom kernel...(yes...half a dozen years of linux use and never felt the urge to do it)...I've officially changed the flag at [link\|http://www.bepatient.net\|my home on the web] to Debian. Also...restarted all of my seti clients last night...they sent me an email asking me to...so I thought I'd oblige. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #104,098 by deSitter 5/30/03 11:14:26 AM Reply	Interesting I think my first Linux was RedHat 4.2, and I didn't have it installed for 10 minutes before rubbing my hands together and saying - "Now - let's break it!" Hey, it worked with clocks and typewriters! Welcome to the kernel kennel. -drl
Post #104,102 by bepatient 5/30/03 11:28:08 AM Reply	I've always been more of the type... ...of not fixing it till it doesn't work the way I want it to...and for my uses Linux always "just worked". But...for some reason...the last install didn't compile smbfs into the kernel...and that was the first true instance of it not working the way I wanted it to. So...thanks to the guys helping me through it...I fixed it...and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I'd upgraded kernels (well...I did that once on a Mandrake box...and it was not without pain)...but never custom built one. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #104,104 by pwhysall 5/30/03 11:29:36 AM Reply	For us Doobians The "kernel-package" set of tools takes away a lot of the pain, especially when you're adding external modules (NVIDIA driver, frexample) or kernel patches (pre-emptive patch, that FreeSWAN thingy). Also, use GRUB (:-p to you, Ross :)) as it's less disastrous if you feck up your boot config. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #104,105 by bepatient 5/30/03 11:34:17 AM Reply	Gonna have to swith to Grub Right now its Lilo...but the Debian kernel-package seemed to handle that quite nicely. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #104,110 by tseliot 5/30/03 12:02:39 PM Reply	Now that that's out of the way, we can work on teaching you: CSS, or a good CMS at least ;) Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #104,114 by bepatient 5/30/03 12:27:29 PM Reply	What...you want professional site design too? I've had a couple of goes at replacing this with something "prettier"...but this is a matter of form over function for me. That site is my home page...google first...ziwe normally second...but I've had this continuing obsession with starting a blog...which continually goes nowhere. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #104,139 by jbrabeck 5/30/03 2:51:29 PM Reply	blog info from the Register [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30954.html\|Most bloggers are 'teenage girls' - survey] Restore honor and dignity to the US. Impeach Bush, NOW!
Post #104,142 by bepatient 5/30/03 2:57:00 PM Reply	truism Maybe we're all safer this way - thanks to weblogs. Maybe blogs are a way of keeping the truly antisocial out of harm's way. So if you know a middle-aged sociopath, for heaven's sake, point him to a computer and show him how to start a weblog. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #104,144 by jbrabeck 5/30/03 2:59:54 PM Reply	middle-aged sociopath Don't think it applies to you... Restore honor and dignity to the US. Impeach Bush, NOW!

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