On Thursday 23 September 2004 4:46 pm, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> Far from it, actually. I tend to be polyannishly
> optimistic. That's why I installed RH 8.0, and got
> myself locked into an "upgrade" that was inferior to
> its predecessor and has left me crippled ever since.
>

I barely followed this thread, but I have seen you struggle with your current 
system for a long time, Lynn.  I've been in a situation of using a 
"fundamentally broken" system before and it sucks, though usually in my case 
its because I didn't take some downtime to fix it and now its crunchtime.

Ever given a thought to learning how to do your work (though I don't know what 
it is at all) under Knoppix or another "Live" CD?  Last month I had to pull 
the plug on a 50% complete formated system when an emergency call came in. 
(Talk about a horrible timed home fresh install).  Since my data center is 45 
minutes away by car even at 1am, I grabbed the handy Knoppix CD and got to 
work.  I was quite happy to save myself the 1.5 hour car ride, even with a 
good audiobook on the MP3 player.

Now granted my work at the time (system administration) was easy to get done 
with ssh/rdesktop and a working eth0, you may consider leanring to do what 
you do in Knoppix (even if its a pain in the ass for you, as long as your 
customers won't notice) and having it as a 'backup'  even if you don't start 
reinstalling willy nilly.

Just a thought,  
-- 
Kyle Faber
Account Manager
EMR Internet
kyle@emr.net
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