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

Saint Petersburg, Florida

-> 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.

Born in Massachusetts, never seen under -26F  

->  -> 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.
->  

-> 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.

Well actually my FIRST was a RCA 1802 based computer I hand wire wrapped
around 1975 or so.
Pretty lame but it worked.

->  
->  -> 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.

No nags on my knoppix either.

->  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.
->  -> 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      

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


->  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 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. 

Yeah, Norway.

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

->  -> 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. <-;

My last bike had 120 H.P. at the rear wheel and got a lousy
34 MPG.
I was going to detune it but the wreck eliminated that project :-(
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