WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 -> I just did something while trying to find the DVD on RH,
 -> and now, *neither* USB
 -> drive shows up. Hmm... I was all charged up to install
 -> the RH DVD bundled w/a
 -> book checked out from the library. /-:

 WC> Hmm.
 WC> dmesg | less doesn't show them?

dmesg did tell me the UPS was still being considered there, (As a
"Joystick" no
less!) and that was what I unplugged to make room for the DVD. I'll have to
check if the CDRW is there again. Come to think about it, the last time I used
it was pre-RH w/Mandrake.

 -> Maybe the last W98 machine can read it. Maybe I *will*
 -> have to buy an IDE DVD
 -> drive after all. (Not really feeling like having TWO DVD
 -> drives in the farm.)

 WC> I'd be happy with one.
 WC> Perhaps I HAVE one.

LOL! 
 WC> H.P. Pavilion's manual clearly states this CD drive is CD only
 WC> while Linux ID's it as a DVD player.

The manufacturer's id was adopted by a current DVD manufacturer? Na... Maybe
the previous owned was trying to install the DVD under W98, the moment before
it found its way to the garbage? 

 ->  ->  WC> I've vowed no more Windows for me.

 ->  -> Shoot, I'm almost there.

 ->  WC> Well it was this last experience, having to run Ad-Aware every
 ->  WC> other time, AVG, keeps Zone Alarm active, update the fixpacks
 ->  WC> and STILL it gave security problems.

 ->  WC> Then too I'd the fido virus conferences swithched on and paging
 ->  WC> through 12 - 15 Windows trojan and virus vulnerabilities...

 -> Isn't it something? Heck, so much was getting by scanners when I was still
 -> connecting through an ISP... On one hand, I'm just as
 -> glad to let the library
 -> take care of those issues. Knowing I will inevitably
 -> find another provider, I'm
 -> trying to cram enough firewall/Linux knowledge under my
 -> belt for when that day
 -> shows up.

 WC> I'm not mobile enough for the linbrary and if I were
 WC> I couldn't sit long once there.
 WC> I really used to spend a lot of time there.

Who said I sit once there? I only teared up a few times too! There did come a
time when I had to hit the horizontal, however, and left the building for a
park bench.

One thing I am finding amusing however, I'm not the cleanest shaved unit on the
planet, as it is leg time I'd better spend elsewhere, but I am usually dressed
with an upscale jacket at least. Security is all over me when I'm in a public
place. They likely take me for a person who rolled someone for the jacket, and
I'm just faking the leg?

 -> Knowing W98 will not be supported, is not boding MS it well in my future.

 WC> Nor I, screw em.
 WC> Knoppix allows for updates on the fly for new software.

The recent Linux installs I have done here allow for online upgrading. I guess
they will sniff out your installed packages, and send the patches? As I don't
have an ISP right now, I haven't checked 'em out.


... Isn't it telling how the bible refers to Christians as sheep?
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