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This is after install and round 1 of updates...

sorry, needed to vent after around three hours of install

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:46, archived)

em....

why didn`t you install it off a magazine cover CD?!

thank god for RPMs and Linux....

edit: you`d have been better dowloading 700MB of Equilibrium off Kazaa ;-)

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:49, archived)

because

I can't afford hosting, yet alone a magazine. And I didn't realise you could get sp1 on a cover cd. And I didn't realise it'd take so bloody long. I'd jsut installed over 100Mb of updates before I started on sp1 )c:

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:51, archived)

yip, a lot of cover CDs have SP1

but.. apparently microsoft is to stop them from distributing it

- they must love wasting money on bandwidth

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:54, archived)

Possibly because

rumour has it you can't install sp1 if you're running a dodgy copy. I'm presuming a cd copy gets round that.

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:58, archived)

hmm

dunno, I`d have assumed they were just big .exe files or .cab files so it wouldn`t matter

I`ve heard of people having problems after installing SP1 (a bit like the people who patched Mac Panther (I think! know nothing about Macs at all) and had problems with firewire)

not that I have a dodgy copy of XP kicking about or anything (i.e installed)....

*whistle*

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:00, archived)

I have a

modified XP startup screen with an alternate boot shell so I don't have to start fiddling with reshacker. Windows update doesn't like modified boot strings or shell so I can't use it unless I turn it off. Then bloody SP2 re-replaced the dll files i'd replaced to allow the use of non-microsoft themes. Still haven't got round to sorting that again.

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Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:12, archived)

oooooooooh

you need to be 1337er!

;-)

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:13, archived)

OR more bothered.

I can't be arsed currently.

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Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:15, archived)

I had to download sp1 to get onto the uni network.

That download took me two whole minutes!

(Prof_Frink has remembered his username, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:01, archived)

That'd be

thanks to the cash. Once Bob's finished reinstalling I'll be reinstalling Katie here.

And thanks to my new spangly Squid cache it shouldn't take nearly so damn long.

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:05, archived)

woo

squid is bloody brilliant!

specially with custom rules, so you can block all those crappy webshites that host 90MB flash advertisements* and track cookies and stuff

*small exaggeration there

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:06, archived)

RPMs?

DEB files are where it's at mate!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:54, archived)

ooh

you am hardcore h4x0r! you am debian unstable king I`ll bet!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:54, archived)

Neh

Stable all the way! I just prefer using apt-get since it's way fucking easier and simpler than redhat's package thing.

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:57, archived)

I use SuSE

with it`s nice wee YaST thingie

but I tell you what is nice.... Ark Linux.... very nice indeed!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:58, archived)

I've heard a lot of people use Ark

I just like Debian since it's slightly familiar, and uses very little resources. Just has proftpd and samba on it.

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:03, archived)

my uber 1337

mate swears by it

but my shitty wee web server doesn`t like downtime (cos I shout at it), so I just picked a distro I could have up and running and serving in an hour* (apart from having to build drivers for the ADSL modem!)

* most of this time is spent installing, cos it`s a piece of shit PC that ROCKED back in ... 1996!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:05, archived)

I have nice 255mhz + 333mhz machines.

They rock like something that rocks HARD!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:08, archived)

I got a P2 400

off eBay for 50 quid.. but I have to give that to the other half`s cousin :-(

it would have been a nice new sidebottom.local too :-\

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:18, archived)

Nice deal

I found mine outside the local uni.

/hobo

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:22, archived)

yep

I agree.

apt-get rocks!

Although I'm still to actually configure most things I've installed.

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:58, archived)

Installing from source is obviously the best option

but for small simple things like telnet, I really can't be arsed.

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:00, archived)

bah

fonts!

are you gay or what?!

links is the best browser!

;-)

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:02, archived)

I changed it for that reason

I've never used the debian gui, command line all the way!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:03, archived)

There's a GUI?

I don't have a monitor, so tv-out only. And install wasn't TV-friendly so I didn't bother with x

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:12, archived)

bollocks it is.

it takes forever and then nothing knows if it'll work with that version or whatnot.

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bananaman, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:02, archived)

I must say

a big up to `nanaman cos he`s been giving Linux a serious go!

woo to `nanaman!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:03, archived)

Woo!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:05, archived)

I had a lot of problems with certain drivers

and then having to compile a new kernel, which scared me muchly. So I just apt-get if all else fails!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)

god

you`ve gone down in my 1337 scale!

kernel building is the place to be!

.. specially when you can`t boot back into your fucking system....

:-D

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:08, archived)

I managed it in the end.

But having just started using linux, it made me cry. I just wanted it to work!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:09, archived)

hahah

not a chance mate!

I`ve a fair bit of (fairly novice I would say) experience, and when it fucks up good and proper, I`m stuck!

"ahhh nuke the bastard! start again!"

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:24, archived)

Mandrake and

urpmi for me. I guess I'm not as hard core :/

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helmetcream, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:17, archived)

Mandrake

Very hardcore!

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dogsbollocks, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:20, archived)

how hardcore

can a duck be?!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:25, archived)

I do add sources

from the command line ;)
The GUI tools bite

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helmetcream, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:27, archived)

yarr, had a similar

problem recently - this is un-shopped:

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witchy is covered in BEES, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:50, archived)

computers

are so wank.

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CowJam, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:52, archived)

you know...

I had to decide when I was 14/15 (I`m 28 now) whether to study art or IT

wish I`d chosen art... a lot less money, but way more fun

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:55, archived)

see, i made the right decision.

i can tell it's right because it annoys my chemistry teacher.

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bananaman, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:01, archived)

nah that`s

cos you`re a clever and pedantic bastard!

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Reckless_Rik, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:02, archived)

she's still annoyed

because at one point i told her i wished i'd done something else instead of chemistry.

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bananaman, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:08, archived)

That's only

about half a year. What's your problem? ;-)

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splorp ®, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 22:55, archived)

none I s'pose, if I want

to listen to it while it's copying I'll just bung the record on!

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witchy is covered in BEES, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)

lightweight

I had over 4,000,000 minutes recently
edit oh good grief I've just noticed splodgennes abounds, that takes me back a bit

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lord bofingham, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:00, archived)

koala-tea stuff, mate.

particklery 'the malcolm opera', 'I fell in love with a female plumber from harlesdon NW10' and of course, 'simon templar' :)

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witchy is covered in BEES, Fri 21 Nov 2003, 23:07, archived)