Computer prob - baffled.......

Yes, in the sequel, Newt (the little girl), says to Ripley 'it's too
late, they're here'.

 

Not exactly, the problem I had was taking a feed from my turntable to
the iMac, and the Hi-Fi wasn't earthed [1]. It caused an earth-loop
fault, and made a horrid noise on the input to the Mac. Once I used a
correctly earthed block all was fine again.

It had nothing to do with the computer at all.

[1] At all! [2]
[2] I didn't know this until I got this problem.

 

Yeah, not a bad bit of kit that.

 

The linspire CD played silly buggers...

Got to the "install or run from CD screen" and when I selected CD... it
gave a read error.

I'll burn another cd tomorrow - but I'm downloading ubuntu, ATM.... seems
to have more support available......
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
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skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

Have tried it on an IBM laptop and desktop from work, and compaq desktop as
well, all worked a treat...

 

I presume its relatively idiot proof?
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
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FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

Crashes well
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It's Linux, so no.

 

Ahem! I think you find that it was me that pointed you in that direction
first!

 

Oi! Thats my feedline!

Phil

 

Indeed it was, ta!

I had already realised my error and acknowledged you in a reply to your
original post. ;-)
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
B12S (coming soon) 90 CB450DX (The Moped)
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

IIRC, there's various styles of linux ranging from geek to idiot.

Maybe the version you tried isn't commie-proof? ;-)
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Cheers!
Fr Jack
B12S (coming soon) 90 CB450DX (The Moped)
FRJACKUKRM AT GMAIL DOT COM
skype: fr.jack (without the dot)
We'll open up your eyes,
just to check that you're asleep, again

 

Too late, it had to be said.

 

I'm not a geek and am not an idiot regarding computers. More capable
than most but not a 'hobbyist' any more.

Linux whilst I've played with it a few times is of little interest to
me.

I've not had a virus problem. I can afford MS OSs (and the ones I have
are licensed) and I've bought the applications.

I can't see any reason to go to Linux, especially when I'd need it to
run wine so I could load my MS Money file (unless things have moved on.)

I'm sure Linux is fine and dandy but I want something that works out of
the box without any fiddling and which will run my apps.

 

[Snipped Text]

Aye, it does.

 

<Hangs head>

I know - I'm busy with this 'work' stuff and can't read UKRM except in
short bursts. What a bummer eh? Fancy making me work!

</HH>

Phil.