Hello Stephen.

02 May 04 09:55, you wrote to me:

 MM>> Yeah, but "Real Life" has interfered with
all that... I never seem
 MM>> to be able to find the time to sort out all that Linux Fidoe Software...

 SM> I hear you!  If you're unlucky with an install or configuration, then
 SM> trudging up the Linux learning curve can use up a lot of time.  These
 SM> days I no longer spend much time just fooling around or RTFM for fun,
 SM> but instead just learn what I need to solve any problems with the
 SM> particular applications I want to run.

While I've played around with the Penguin long enuff to know it's ways
fairly well, it's just a pain chasing down all those text config files in
all those weird and wonderful disk locations that *NIX programmers seem so
much to enjoy hiding them in. (Especially *NIX Fidoe programmers, it
seems...)

Even when you track down all the varied locations, you then have lots of
horn-scratching to do in order to decipher the cryptic language of said
config files' keywords...

 SM> Of course, I'm not asserting that "I have a life" because
that brings
 SM> to mind the old "he doth protest too much" observation. 
It just seems
 SM> that fooling around with computers no longer gives me much joy.  In
 SM> fact, at times I worry that I might eventually change from being a
 SM> "computer hobbyist" into being a "turn-key
user".  The horror!  The
 SM> horror, eh?

You're not thinking of Apples, I hope...

 SM> Thanks.  I see that GoldED+ is the only version being actively
 SM> distributed and supported on the World Wide Wait.  Who knows, maybe
 SM> I'll get lucky and it will go smoothly.  'Course I also have to settle
 SM> on a tosser/scanner.  I'd automatically go with Maximus' Squish
 SM> tosser, but it is only distributed as source code.  Meanwhile, after
 SM> over four years of using Linux, I'm only now wanting a few
 SM> applications that I'll need to compile myself.  Unfortunately, so far
 SM> the "make" utility seems best at making lists of error messages.

I've muchly had the same experiences... I've pretty much given up on the
source code dance, and have decided to wait until someone decides to
release some working pre-compiled Linux releases of Squish and/or
MaxiMoose.

 SM> Hmmmmmmmmm.  I'm not sure if this message had any of that obligatory
 SM> MooseChat humor or silliness.  I think I may have come close with the
 SM> "I may have a life" stuff, tho.  Still, maybe I should
have thrown in
 SM> a few puns, eh?  I wish I had the knack of writing punishing prose.

Just the thought of Meese dancing around with Penguins is comic relief
enuff, I'd think...

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