I am not a FUCKING NEWBIE
Could've fooled me.
I fucking ran Linux in 1995-1997
And?
the copies of Linux I have from 1995-1997 run fucking fine with the bitch ass motherfucker older than dirt hardware that I have
I've got Debian 3.0 doing sterling service on a Digital P75. Your point? Oh yeah, you don't have one. If you did, you'd tell us what problems you were having. Rant on.
Chances are you will say to me "Fucking buy a new system, this one is too old to run Linux!"
No, chances are I'll say "this thing's fucked for any purpose".
Slackware 3.X installs just fine on my 200Mhz Pentium MMX Whitebox system, but it is old old old, and I'd much rather have the new stuff.
OK, that's a fair expectation and desire.
Yet the new stuff pukes on me, except for KNOPPIX Linux, which is just a bootable CDR with their brand of Linux on it.
Er, you do know that Knoppix is just about as cutting-edge as you get, don't you?
I call it X-Windows, like you call Microsoft's crapware Windoze.
No, I don't.
But then your a fucking IT God, you knew this shit and are just fucking with me right? I mean, come on Peter. That is where the hell you download bug fixes and updates from, right? It is a port of the X Window System which I and others joking call X-Windows to make it sound like MS-Windows. In fact, Enter X-Windows into Google and see what the fuck pops up and stop kidding around with me over the spelling of the fucking product!
It's the first ten lines of the manual page. Get over yourself. Just because everyone else gets it wrong doesn't make it right.
How about I call it "Peter's Fucking GUI for Unix systems that needs a major rewrite and has more kludged up windows managers than any other GUI I know and according to him should autmagically work and be called X Windows and not X-Windows. So we disagree over the hyphen in the name"
Ah, the old "we need to rewrite X" routine. Everyone who says this is (a) wrong or (b) incapable of producing an alternative. Which are you?
Error I got, as far as I can remember, was "Missing fixed width font" and "Missing screen" on the other install. Of course I reformatted the hard drive and installed NT 4.0 in fustration.
So you didn't make a note of the error and Google for it? And then you gave up? Why did you even consider Linux?
Tell you what, I'll install it on VirtualPC, see if the error message pops up, then take a screen shot and fucking email it to you. if the error does not come up, I'll just use Virtual PC instead of my old hardware. If I can get the network part to work (if you can, reconmend a good Linux Ethernet card, I'll buy it) and only the CLI comes up, if I can I'll get AT&T's VNC on it, set you up a password and have you remotely log into it and fix the fucker.
Go for it. I'll take a look at your error messages. The 3Com 3c90x cards work well with Linux. But no, you can do the work yourself.
That is if I can get a VNC server than doesn't need that fucking crapware that is called "X Windows" to work. If you are not up to it, my neighbor says that he can configure SuSE 8.0 to work with my old hardware; however, it could be my monitor and display adapter causing it to panic.
Actually, VNC doesn't need X. But then, you'll only start bitching about how difficult VNC is to configure because you have to *gasp* edit some text files. Will you cope? Your monitor is unlikely to be preventing X from starting.
My neighbor says that he might be able to fix it, as he's a Linux Guru of many years
Then get him to do it.
I've been fucking busy with that new job and trying to get a test environment to work at home until our NA can set up a VPN that works. I can connect to the VPN, log in with my password and user ID, but I cannot see any of the servers, cannot ping their IP, I am on the same subnet, and IP range as them, same gateway and DNS server settings, etc. I had a 192.168.0.1 IP range on my local network, but our NA said to change that to something else. So I did, many times, and none of them work.
This is your corporate IT department's problem, not yours or ours.
Damn, I am turning into a CRC clone. Cussing, and downloading IB, Delphi/Kylix, and other shit. What the fuck is happening to me?
I rather hope you're starting to pay attention to the message I'm sending, namely "stop whining and start doing stuff, else shut up about it".
In the meantime I'll do what I can to prevent myself from taking my own life, and live so that you don't have to fly over here and give me that ass kicking that your promised me if I ever got that way again.
Don't threaten me.