02-02-05  11:18, Wayne Chirnside told James Bradley about Tap tap tap...

 Well, how do, Wayne?


 -> Due to frugality, (Some would call me downright cheap. ;-
 -> ) I would park a mile
 -> away, and walk to and from work. As my infliction snuck 
 WC> Long time motorcycle rider.
 WC> Did my own repairs and routine maintanance at very low cost plus
 WC> close to 50 M.P.G.
 WC> Still one of my last jobs I walked to sometimes as it was just 12
 WC> minutes away on foot.

I forget, but you are in a Southern "A" named state right? (READ:
Not Alaska)

I used to walk to work, whenever the temperature would hit minus forty.
Unhardened bolts tend to snap at those temperatures, and I didn't mind the
'fresh' air. I was equipped to deal with it anyway.

 -> As an aside, I get to learn all about this Linux
 
 ->  -> OS, but I have to exercise the memory, and note taking skills when
 ->  -> trying to remember the tidily bits.
 
 ->  WC> Try either Knoppix or "Point and Click Linux" with
CD available at
 ->  WC> Barnes and Noble bookstores.
 
 -> THAT's where I saw your name before! I thought I 
 -> recognized it, but I thought
 -> you may have been on this echo years ago.

 WC> Yeah, I've been online and fido active since buying my first computer
 WC> in 1993, this after the motorcycle accident.

My first PC rolled in about '90. Before that, a C=64, and mom's c/pm. Just
when modems came out with Fax-ability, I picked up my first 2400, and there
was no turning back. I sysoped myself when Suprex offered a sysop deal for
V.FC modems, and I ran that BBS until Y2K.

 WC> Riding 17 years without major incident I got clocked TWICE
 WC> in two years, once put me into Voc. Rehab. for computer programming
 WC> and one day returning home a 16 year old kid with a 2 week old drivers
 WC> license hit me a second time, that was the end of trying to return to
 WC> work.

Mang... Tough!
 ->  WC> I'm running Knoppix downloaded and burned for me by Charles Angelich
 ->  WC> and that's a FREE download.
 
 -> Ya... I bought a rag that included Mandrake 10.0c that I 
 WC> Knoppix loads the full GUI right on a CD boot.
 WC> "knx-hdinstall" script from the command line puts it on the hard
 WC> drive, dead simple.

I just made it into a Library this week, and picked up a text with RH-9. I
can see why it is so popular. I think I'll have to move to another distro
though. Now, I have to force myself to drag the carcass to the library
every three weeks to exchange titles.
 WC> I've a single page of notes to setup a users account so you can be
 WC> secure from  a "root" attack online.
 
I was surprised how RH almost encourages people to run as root. No, 'Setup
New User Account' at the install, and no nags, besides a third party
reminder on the help screen so far.
 WC> Don't need to. Defrag the hard drive and run Linux fdisk from the
 WC> coomand line apportinjging at least 4 Gig to Knoppix.
 WC> To save configs there's a option to save them to even a small Linux
 WC> partitio or do the complete install.

You mean Partition Magic, or some such? fdisk will not retain old partitions.
 -> Here, I run a Celeron 466 (SMOKIN'! |-) with an external modem. It's a so
 -> called 'single board' PC, or some such, and possesses 
 -> *no* expansion slots. I      

 WC> I couldn't deal with no expansion slots.
 WC> Three here if you include the ISA network card, other two open PCI.

I picked up two 'upgrade kits' and one warrantee repair at auction in '99,
(Once equipped, one kit moved to dad's, and the repair turned out to be a
flaky HD, and an ill-upgraded BIOS.) so I have plenty of expansion slots in
the house, just not in the Linux box.

 WC> What kills me is the tens of millions spent on saving and returning to
 WC> the wild that wale kept in a Mexican aquarium.
 WC> I mean over 30 million to rehab a WHALE and here I lay useless?
 WC> When I first begged for the fusion I had lots of pain free days, now
 WC> none in years.

...And the prognosis for that whale wasn't that great, was it? He went to
Norway, and there he will likely stay forever? Still, if I was a Killer
Whale, I don't think I'd like to be in a Mexican jail. 
 
 WC> Took me 12 years to lose most of my work ethic.
 WC> Just household chores are a pain now and done in small
 WC> portions instead of the clean everything attacks I used to do.

Well, I suspect we are more alike than different. I would throw a house
party once a year to force me to pull out a mop and pail. Once stuff
started going missing, and I couldn't ignore my decline any more...
 WC> I take the bus.

My house is about a quarter of a mile or more from the bus stop. Two years
ago, I stopped taking pain killers, and I think I took the car out four
times in the following twelve-months.
 -> I'll never forget hovering in a lot,
 -> waiting for space to avail itself, and the chubby chick 
 -> that ran out of her car
 -> who scavenged the spot. Guess she didn't see my handicapped tag, or she was
 -> late for her exercise class. What are you gonna do?

 WC> Cuss.
 
I did! 

 ->  WC> We're both a mess :-(
 
 -> How nice of you to remind me.  

 WC> Now you know we're both reminded first thing in the morning every day.

I tore off to an Optometrist, where he suggested I wash around my eyes in
the morning to remove the salts that accumulate over night. Those salts
were what accumulated on the *drive* to the office.
 WC> At least you can still drive.

My car gets 50 miles per gallon! Four wheel drive too, not just one. <-;



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