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john wrote: | On Tuesday 21 September 2004 1:10, Simon Waters wrote: | | is merlyn still there?
.."On Mark Lang".. | biggest (tech) mistake of my life (so far) was meeting him just | after he got his bank loan and thinking "1.5 pence a minute for | 14.4k? never fly..."
A friends father worked with Dolby on filtering technology and decided it was too risky. Lesson - we are often too risk adverse.
| mmm, must admit with relatively few computers and cable I just | use remote mirrors, what's a few hundred megs nowadays.
Don't ask Matt how long his UserLinux install took, and he has 1Mbps ADSL unlike some of us on 64kbps.
Today booted GNU/Hurd into multiuser mode - finally - would have been easier if I'd read the docs first, or they had continued to include the boot floppy in the distro - next step make GRUB boot automatically and sort the networking (what no DHCP!?!).
It occured to me at one point that "installing Debian/Hurd K7 is a very good way to learn about GRUB", is vaguely along the same lines as the famous quotation "quantum mechanics is a good introduction to hilbert spaces".
Took a brief look at Dynebolic, and Gentoo, although I was somewhat confused on booting the Dynebolic CD to find I had a miminal Gentoo install, seems Linux User and Developer managed to label them the wrong way around.
The Dynebolic CD looked interesting, and booted well, a live CD aimed at multimedia editting (with plenty of odd Debian games to fill the disk space up with), but I don't really do multimedia editting. Gentoo I didn't really have a chance to get to grips with, maybe after Saturday!
Also had a play with the LNX-BBC on my FSF membership card, but I'll be hanging onto Knoppix for a while longer as my rescue CD of choice. Guess since the BBC fits in my wallet I'm more likely to have it to hand. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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