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[Advent Systems]

Steve,
    I save all my mail but this I think I will make into a wallpaper for 
my desktop!  Being a newbie I mostly lurk on this list and try to learn 
but most of the people here are working on such seriously advanced stuff 
I feel almost like an idiot asking about a stupid cd burner problem (but 
am grateful for how much I have learned from them) .  I think I see 
now,and agree, that  setting up and "fixing" problems in linux is half 
the fun.  I just need to setup one machine to do my "real work" with and 
don't screw with it.  What used to frustrate me (before your letter) :)  
was that on a typical day I'd get my  books setup on gnucash , I'd then 
blow the system up trying something new and then I'd have to enter invoices!

Thanks Again,
Bob Randal

Stephen Burke wrote:

> 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
>>
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