OT: The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat

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David said:
So I am speaking for you then?
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Give it up, David. I don't even believe you are speaking for you! :)

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Kenny S, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:
:-)
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Another moron who has no clue about snipping 270 lines just to put an idiotic
smiley. Spread the idiocy, Kenny, it's you right on the nose.
 
kurttrail, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:
Give it up, David. I don't even believe you are speaking for you! :)
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He doesn't even know when he's just *speaking*...for himself or not, it
doesn't matter.
 
I believe MS (the person) is really pissed off at us three. I'm not sure why. What have we done. It seems really serious to him.
 
Sad, but true. :o(




I believe MS (the person) is really pissed off at us three. I'm not sure
why. What have we done. It seems really serious to him.
 
But, have never been snip conscious. Must be a top poster thing. Oh
well......




Kelly, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:
Geez, Kenny.....why didn't you just create an E-Book for this?
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Snipping is a 'Good Thing' ®, especially if all that's added is one line.
 
David said:
I believe MS (the person) is really pissed off at us three. I'm not
sure why. What have we done. It seems really serious to him.
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Who is "MS (the person)"?

Steve
 
David said:
Think Kurt, think who normally argues with him.
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Boy, that really narrows it down! I can think of a dozen of people who
normally argue with Kurt. I think I got it anyway, though.

:)

Steve
 
David said:
No Dave, you aren't.

I am niether a proponent nor antagonist of any particular OS.

Steve
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David said:
That's my point.
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It is? Ok.

I try to read between the lines but from here they all appear blank ;)

Sorry if I missed the intended point. Sometimes I take things too
literally I suppose. Fortunately in the long run I don't really give a rip.

So, you having a good weekend yet? Got beer? I'm gonna hafta make a run
to the store real soon. Need anything?

Since we're so far OT maybe this will bring it back a bit, I got ahold
of a Gateway E-3400 PIII 800MHz box w/512MB RAM, 40GB 7200RPM HDD, runs
Win2K and Redhat 9.0 just dandy, but SuSE 9.1 refuses to install. No
matter what install choice I make it immediately pops to a black screen
w/top left blinking cursor, all I can do is a hard reset. Sounds like
hardware, don't it? Can't find any info from any SuSE sites yet (they're
worse than HP and Intel sites), but I suspect SuSE is just as picky
about hardware as XP is now. I might try an XP install just for the heck
of it and see if it croaks, too. It's an odd-ball system board, a GVC
(Corfu) Motherboard 800-MHz Pentium III R6. AMI BIOS 01.00.P06 08/17/00.
Maybe a BIOS update is in order.

Steve
 
Steve said:
Boy, that really narrows it down!
LOL!

I can think of a dozen of people who
normally argue with Kurt. I think I got it anyway, though.

:)
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It's not Mike Solomon MS-MVP. ;-)

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Steve said:
It is? Ok.

I try to read between the lines but from here they all appear blank ;)

Sorry if I missed the intended point. Sometimes I take things too
literally I suppose. Fortunately in the long run I don't really give a
rip.

So, you having a good weekend yet? Got beer? I'm gonna hafta make a
run to the store real soon. Need anything?

Since we're so far OT maybe this will bring it back a bit, I got ahold
of a Gateway E-3400 PIII 800MHz box w/512MB RAM, 40GB 7200RPM HDD,
runs Win2K and Redhat 9.0 just dandy, but SuSE 9.1 refuses to install.
No matter what install choice I make it immediately pops to a black
screen w/top left blinking cursor, all I can do is a hard reset.
Sounds like hardware, don't it? Can't find any info from any SuSE
sites yet (they're worse than HP and Intel sites), but I suspect SuSE
is just as picky about hardware as XP is now. I might try an XP
install just for the heck of it and see if it croaks, too. It's an
odd-ball system board, a GVC (Corfu) Motherboard 800-MHz Pentium III
R6. AMI BIOS 01.00.P06 08/17/00. Maybe a BIOS update is in order.

Steve
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Try installing SuSE 9.1 with acpi=off.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Steve N. wrote:




Try installing SuSE 9.1 with acpi=off.

Malke
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No good. Same story. Even "Safe install" does the same as does "Manual
install". The "kernel loading" progress bar hits the end quickly and
boom; blinky cursor upper left. I really don't think SuSE 9.1 likes this
hardware at all.

It will install and run every other Linux distro I've tried so far. I
just really want to play with SuSE some because at work we are a Novell
house and they are quickly moving to SuSE so I need to try and keep up,
but I don't want to mess with my existing installs on my other PCs.

I really oughta try to convince my boss to give me a decent PC (or two
or three) to dink with at home instead of scarfing and scrounging up
discarded hardware headed for landfill. Hey, at least I got this one
working after everyone else gave up on it and it is a decent Windows/Red
Hat 9.0 PC, so I'm still ahead, ain't I? :)

It's just a puzzler and you know how I am about puzzles...

Steve
 
Steve said:
No good. Same story. Even "Safe install" does the same as does "Manual
install". The "kernel loading" progress bar hits the end quickly and
boom; blinky cursor upper left. I really don't think SuSE 9.1 likes
this hardware at all.

It will install and run every other Linux distro I've tried so far. I
just really want to play with SuSE some because at work we are a
Novell house and they are quickly moving to SuSE so I need to try and
keep up, but I don't want to mess with my existing installs on my
other PCs.

I really oughta try to convince my boss to give me a decent PC (or two
or three) to dink with at home instead of scarfing and scrounging up
discarded hardware headed for landfill. Hey, at least I got this one
working after everyone else gave up on it and it is a decent
Windows/Red Hat 9.0 PC, so I'm still ahead, ain't I? :)

It's just a puzzler and you know how I am about puzzles...

Steve
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Well, then I just don't know. However, 9.1 has given a lot of people
fits, not working on boxen where 9.0 worked great or other distros
don't have a problem. I think it's the "odd number version" syndrome.
I've got 9.1 on an IBM X31 Thinkpad and I'm very happy with it. The
laptop runs much better than it did with 9.0. That said, I've left 9.0
on my main box because everything is working perfectly. You might try
9.0 on the laptop first - you can always update with YOU and/or compile
a newer kernel if you need to.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Steve N. wrote:




Well, then I just don't know. However, 9.1 has given a lot of people
fits, not working on boxen where 9.0 worked great or other distros
don't have a problem. I think it's the "odd number version" syndrome.
I've got 9.1 on an IBM X31 Thinkpad and I'm very happy with it. The
laptop runs much better than it did with 9.0. That said, I've left 9.0
on my main box because everything is working perfectly. You might try
9.0 on the laptop first - you can always update with YOU and/or compile
a newer kernel if you need to.

Malke
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I haven't been moving in SuSE circles, this is the first I've tried it,
so I wasn't aware there were problems. I have heard the "odd number
version" syndrome before, perhaps you are right. I may do a BIOS update
and see what happens for the heck of it.

Thanks Malke.

Steve
 
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