c'est rien

[Stephen Burke]

Bob,

I am glad that you are seeing things more clearly now. Immediately after 
sending that, I was sure that someone was going to be offended by my 
presuming to give advice. I am by no means expert at Linux, and have 
been having a difficult enough time here just trying to get K3b to even 
recognize my DVDRW drive. I suppose that a purist would say I am 
cheating, since I have dual-booted this HD with SuSE and 2k, and have 
been using the 2k side to burn my Linux CDs.

I have also somehow screwed up my pager (what enlightenment uses for a 
desktop switcher) by messing around with the themes in e, and have yet 
to successfully install FC3 on another HD after at least 4 or 5 
attempts. The installations seem to go fine and then the system just 
refuses boots properly for no apparent reason. All very strange. That 
sort of stuff used to really bother me a few years ago when I started 
toying with this OS (RH 7.2).

Now there are generally so many little pieces out of place on a few 
different systems that no single problem can get to me, as long as  one 
of them can at least get me to the web for answers (hopefully) and 
mail.  I started realizing that I was truly a geek when I started 
enjoying the error messages more than a smoothly functioning machine. My 
favorite is still "kernel panic", even though I still do not know enough 
to understand why it happens or how to fix it, and though it means that 
my system is hosed.  I just like the sound of it: let the machines do 
the panicking .
:-D ,
S.

p.s. gnome is so boring and M$ looking. Try enlightenment (.org), even 
though it's likely to be a wrestling match getting it to run (I have 
never tried to build it though so I don't actually know about that - I 
just installed it with SuSE). blackbox and fvwm2 are pretty cool, too. 
Using these window managers,  you KNOW you've escaped the dark lord - 
and that any M$ user would probably be lost on your machine and opt to 
use a different one and not screw yours up more than you already have.


Advent Systems wrote:

> Stephen
>    Thank you for that profound piece or wisdom.  Being a newbie and 
> after re-installing each of 3 different distro's dozens of dozens of 
> times and still being able to blow the new install up I thought there 
> was something wrong with me.  I myself was giving up hope and was 
> thinking of going back to Easy CD Creator when after trying 
> "everything" I could not get K3b to work with Gnome, (I still can't) 
> but I now have renewed faith :)
>
> Bob Randal
>