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Working for one of Cane's agencies?

Shag a Grandad; he'll dribble worther flavoured saliva all over you,
take his teeth out and give you a good gumming. If you're really
fortunate he might even take his socks off too.

I understand it's a franchise operation and that the Bedford (ish)
branch is about to setup too.

 

You mean mkdir /mnt/cdrom.

Just mount it on /mnt, which should only ever be used as a temporary
mount point anyway. If it's a permanent mount, it should go somewhere
sensible.

Hardly that tricky. Copy the files to /var/tmp, tar xf the file (or zxf
if gzipped), then rpm -ih any rpms.

 

Training and Sales Support for an international player in the door entry
systems market. Extremely simple techie stuff but a lot of dealing with
buyers from the huge property developers.

 

It is a long time since I have done it but with a bit of prompting from
Fedora it is all coming back.

Yes they are. You do have to wonder about them at times.

And for good measure it helps if you do the /full/ install first because
gcc is not there on the basic, as I have just found out and spent the
last hour correcting with a delete, reconfigure and full install.

 

<points to door>
"That door is closed."

<points to another door>
"This door is open, time for a practical exercise."
<Walks through open door>
"Well done!"

<waits for group to re-assemble>

"That door is locked..."
<points to another door>
"..time for a practical exercise."

*BANG*

"I told you it was locked... now this device I'm holding is called a
key.."

 

fucking pedant

I'll grant you, not at all tricky if you have the C compiler installed
which it turns out it doesn't on the minimal install.

I have just reinstalled it with the gimmefuckingeverything option so I
don't expect too many hassles from here on in. Especially as we are now
in territory that I am broadly familiar with.

Still arsehole fucking unnecessary though especially as I am once more
into the "it won't install using SCSI and will only do it with IDE" loop
yet again. And having got it installed and wanting to use it, it refuses
to use IDE and wants me to go back to SCSI.

This is badly thought out it really is but hey it is Linux, what else
should I expect? Stupid of me to even think that they may have put some
effort into the non techie user friendly side of it in the 3 or four
years since the last time I looked at it. After all it is free so why
bother making it easy to use, it is not as if there are any customers to
be doing any complaining are there?

Now VmWare wants me to "log off root and start an X window in my
graphical environment" so that I can start the tools package Well apart
from the fact that root is the only user I currently have and if I log
me off how the **** do I then run X in windows? Do I even have
something like that in windows and if not where the **** do I get it
without paying M$ zillions of deflated Almighty Dollars for it? The
answers to these questions are not given.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I think drugs are the only answer, it may not make it any easier but at
least I won't give a **** and the undertaking business will have to wait
a little longer to get any profit from me.

 

I dunno the precise details yet but I don't think it is quite as
technical as that.

I do get a very generous staff discount though and already have my eye
on either the bluetooth or the fingerprint recognition one for home use.

 

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Hey, there are limits you know and you may have just stepped beyond
them.

 

You used to be able to choose exactly what you wanted in your distribution
(if only Apple would let you install Mac OS-X the same way..). Tp be
fair, though, Solaris doesn't (IIRC) have gcc when you do a standard
install, either. I remember having to go to solarisfreeware.com or
something, to get gcc, to let me install the stuff I wanted.

D.

 

i see a great future for you in software qa...

 

- and may i introduce you to my colleagues mr hamfist over there with the
jemmy, and miss snikipiki hiding there in the corner with the bump keys.

 

http://www.ubuntu.com

You know it makes sense.

Quite right. Those BSD types are all a bit strange (says the man who
uses Mac OS X which is BSD-based)..

Phil.

 

I see it as a sort of 'Darwin' thing. The dumb-as-shit Windows users,
shouldn't touch Linux. It's not for the likes of them. They should
content themselves with 'missing DLLs', or 'please press CTRL ALT DEL', and
the like.

D.

 

It appears you're a dumb-as-shit Linux user who doesn't know what
CTRL-ALT-DEL does in the versions of Windows released over the last
decade.


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Well, obviously.

D.

 

Especially as he doesn't appear to know that most of the modern linux
distros map CTRL-ALT-DEL to do the same job as it does under Windows
2K/XP/Vista..

As do quite a few of the BSD clones. Which (given that the 3-finger
salute isn't actually a Windows thing but a PC thing[1]) is quite
appropriate.

Phil.

[1] As in - invented by IBM, works in OS/2[2] etc etc.
[2] For an OS/2 version of 'works'.

 

I think I made clear that I haven't touched Linux in years.

<aside: s'OK, Nige, you can come out now>

D.

 

ya. i always fink that when i go clicky clicky on a dmg. dam fing nose
i wanna open it, dunit? why do i need to go clicky clicky?

 

But honestly, from a usability pov, the 'thing' should be detected and
mounted automatically.