02-05-05  07:41, Wayne Chirnside told James Bradley about Tap tap tap...

 Well, how do, Wayne?

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

 WC> Saint Petersburg, Florida
 
...If you read it backwards, it starts with an "A". 
 -> 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.

 WC> Born in Massachusetts, never seen under -26F  
 
I've heard (Haven't done the math.) -40^C and ^F are more or less the same.
 ->  -> As an aside, I get to learn all about this Linux
 
 -> 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> Well actually my FIRST was a RCA 1802 based computer I hand wire
 WC> wrapped around 1975 or so.
 WC> Pretty lame but it worked.

WOA! A mentor I knew wave-soldered together a - I think it was - 286, but
you're the first I've heard to have wire-wound a 'puter.
 -> 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> No nags on my knoppix either.

The day after I wrote, RH expired my root account! Had I not *just* made
both normal accounts more powerful, I guess I'd have had to re-install.
 ->  WC> Don't need to. Defrag the hard drive and run Linux fdisk from the
 ->  WC> command line apportioning 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.

 WC> There's a partial partion magic in the old Peanut Linux zip file I've
 WC> here but you can create new partitions with a n command in Linux
 WC> just be sure to give any existing partition a bit of space. 

I'll be... You can just shrink the existing partition, and not delete it?
As you say, you'd have to 'defrag' it if it was a FAT volume first.
 
 ->  WC> What kills me is the tens of millions spent on saving and returning to
 ->  WC> the wild that whale 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> Yeah, Norway.

And in a Norway prison he stays! Still, better than a Mexican one from what
I've heard.
 -> 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.

 WC> I'm right on the bus line, have to be.

I could imagine. (Spoken with *some* authority.) I almost applied for a
taxi service the city offers that would allow me to ride for $5 to anywhere
in the city limits.
 ->  WC> At least you can still drive.

At times, I have to ask if I am being safe doing so. So far, so good
though. Like I say, when dropping the narcotics from the diet, and also
when I first, 'called in sick' for work, there wasn't a whole lot-a oil
changes being done. When I had to go somewhere during those times, it was a
SLOW go to be sure.
 -> My car gets 50 miles per gallon! Four wheel drive too, not just one. <-;

 WC> My last bike had 120 H.P. at the rear wheel and got a lousy
 WC> 34 MPG.

That's about twice the advertised HP of the sewing-machine of an engine I
tool around in.  Just about time for the scrap heap for that one.
 WC> I was going to detune it but the wreck eliminated that project :-(

Now, that would be done by leaning the fuel-air mixture? Wouldn't that
build up carbon in the cylinder heads?



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