'Tivo and the busy busy day

[altivo]

And no, it wasn't spent at the computer either. Gary had two performances to be at today, so I did all the animal care stuff, and the grocery shopping. Ran into Woodstock at noon to have lunch with him and his fellow performers as I usually do after the farmer's market each month but everyone else was rushing off to somewhere else. Fortunately two

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Linux

[thedeere]

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, "Hairy Hardon" (Did I get that right? ;))... It's the first *nix I've gotten to successfully DO stuff, like go online etc. It's really nice!

I've been trying to switch to *nix since, hm, windows 95 happened. I tried Caldera and a couple others. But without knowing anyone who has it IRL to teach me stuff it was really a mess to get to work. 98 was wonderful for me for a long time, but it's beginning to get stale, and XP's just too gross EVEN for _ME_. Nevermind Windows Fistya

Re: Linux

[altivo]

I recommend the Linux for Dummies book. It's very helpful for beginners. You do need to learn a bit to be proficient at Linux. It's like the difference between driving an automatic transmission and a stick, though. Most of it's the same, just a few small but important things to remember.

Also, when you have questions, there are two communities here on LJ where you can usually get some help without anyone pointing claws or hooves at you and snickering: linuxfurs and linuxhelpWinmodems are fine when they work. The one that came in my desktop machine worked fine with Slackware 10.2 once I found and compiled the appropriate driver. I'm sure it would work on Wolvix too (which is just Slackware 11 with some extras) except that the driver code hasn't been kept up to date. I could probably fix it, but it isn't worth days or weeks of effort to me. Most likely I'll press another machine on my network into service as the modem server. I've got one that will do, and the inboard modem, though it's only 32Kb/sec, is a real modem that looks like a serial port to

Re: Linux

[thedeere]

I've seen more strangeness with windmodems than probably any other piece of hardware except possibly scanners. Sometimes the web browser'll work but not the IRC, many odd things can happen because they're a virtual thing... Having said that though, yeah, sometimes you could mistake one for a real modem. :)

Thanks for those groups, just joined 'em! Yeah on IRC I've even been accused of being a "Flame Troll" for asking for advice on the linux. I swear those guys hate any windows user even to the point of trying to keep them from converting to linux. The attitude reminded me a bit of a tiny Daffy Duck standing inside the oyster hugging the pearl, going "MINE! MINE! ALL MINE!" hehehe

Next time I'm at Staples, I'll bag a copy of Linux for Dummies. I've looked at it before but never jumped, thanks for the recommend!

Re: Linux

[altivo]

Glad to help if I can. I looked at Ubuntu early on and wasn't too impressed, so I can't offer much current information or help with things that are specific to the distribution. But Ubuntu has its own support forums, and the majority of Ubuntu users are probably new to Linux, so I'd suggest going there rather than to IRC. IRC is nasty about everything much of the time in my experience. It's certainly not a place I'd go for technical help.