BL> I cannot log in as root - and when I log in as bob, to my
BL> horror I discover that all the Windows drives become read-only.
BL> I can read them and copy them, but I can't change them. I am
BL> cut off in my prime.

AC> You probably need to run (as root) something like:

AC> chown bob /mnt/windows chmod u+rwx /mnt/windows

 But I can't do that from the Windows computer. I'd have to do it
(once) to the Linux computer, and run it forever. As Malcolm Frazer
once said, nothing lasts forever...

BL> I can change the permissions to the Mime (as root), but when I
BL> try to change the permissions on an actual Windows file to bob,
BL> I get a Linux message telling me that I don't have sufficient
BL> access. Root isn't enough access? Is there a super-root, or a
BL> flying red fuck?

AC> I think you only have to change the permissions of the mount
AC> point

 Actually, that's what I meant. To me, the mime (that French
dickhead aside) is the mount point, or that name in the file manager.
I even went so far as to change the permissions of the /dev/hada5 mime
(or whatever you like to call it... address?)

AC> It may be that you need to unmount the mount, then change the
AC> permissions, then remount it: umount /mnt/windows chown bob
AC> /mnt/windows chmod u+rwx /mnt/windows mount /mnt/windows

 
 Done that... didn't work.

AC> Presumably you're getting lock ups from inside the GUI (KDE or
AC> Gnome under X Windows, probably).

 Yep... regularly.

AC> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should get you back to a text mode prompt if
AC> the system hasn't hard-locked. Then you can just type "startx"
AC> and X Windows will restart.

 Yep.. does that. Unfortunately, it's still locked up. It's the
*application" that's locked, you see? In this *new* Xwindow I can
ra\un all the *other* applications I like. What a pity is it's the
one I was using...

 Atleast under Win98, I can shut the application down and try again.
And sometimes, it even works...

AC> Quite possibly the video driver you're using is flakey, but I
AC> don't have enough info to go on. 

 I assume that the entire KDE is p\klakey, and I *do* have more than
enough to go on. Linux sux. As I said earlier, I have an almost-mystic
ability to stuff things up. I go straight to the bug...

 For instance, in Win98 and Samba, if I reboot the Linux end with a
network file open, and then do "something" at the Win98 end (I'm not
sure what, yet), it crashes Win98 like a Boeing 747 from 35,000 feet.
It locks *everything*! I have to do a hard reboot.

AC> If you're just setting up Samba on the Linux box then you don't
AC> need a GUI at all. 

 How very 1980's! It takes me ten attempts to type something like
/root/Intel-536ep-451-S80/536.o (oops, I just typed capital O and
missed the capital I in intel), and that's a short one! I use that
example because it's a real case. I hate to admit it, but I lost my
temper with that one. I not only karate-chopped the keyboard and threw
it down, I said rude things about Linus (pronounced fucking Linnus)
Torvalds and the horse he rode in on. I sowre revenge. If that fucking
Swedish bastard steps in front of my car, he's a dead man.   

 Bill Gates is my hero! How much easier is a mouse click? That way,
all I have ot do is curb my impatience between slicks, but it beats
the *hell* out of typing almiost-identical things then time to get it
*exactly* right (case and all in fucking Linux... which sux, btw).

AC> On the other hand if Linux still locks up from outside the GUI,
AC> you may be in for some fun trying out different kernel
AC> configurations, assuming the hardware itself isn't faulty. 

 No matter *what* I do, I can't make Linux misbehave in command-line
mode. I can make various applications lock up (Minicom, would you
believe -easy for me), but I can always dump them and start again. I
have no problem witrh command-line Linux (or whatever you afficionados
call it)

BL> I'm tempted to buy a hardware firewall/router, use Windows, and
BL> to hell with fucking Linnucks and its useless amateur-hour
BL> programmers. Bloody uniwankers...

AC> Have you heard of FreeBSD?

 No! What's that? I like the sound of the "free" part, and I have
hopes that the "B" stands for bloody. Bloody Slow... the
"D" defeats
me. Bloody Slow Droopydrawers?

AC> Why are you trying to get Linux running, anyway?

 I ask myself that every day. I'm getting in contact with my
masochistic side?

 Actually, I'm paranoid. I think that if I connect to the net, every
commercial enterprise on earth will send me spam and every other
dickhead will send me viruses. I figure that Linux will stop them. It
has certainly stopped me!

BL> Brenton tells me that KDE has ben bought by Novell. Maybe
BL> that'll cure it... it sure needs someone with talent, and a
BL> professional attitude to making their half-finished programs
BL> work properly (like Windows). 

AC> KDE doesn't interface with the hardware directly so it's
AC> unlikely to be the cause of the lockups. 

 You mean like Win31 didn't? Are you sirius (or is it just the way
you walk)?

Regards,
Bob


  



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