On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:49 -0700, stu <
wien33@cox.net> wrote:
> Absolutely! The more I have to work with Windows, the more I appreciate
> Linux! Sorry to create confusion, Irony is one of the lower forms of
> humor!
> Stu
"To say the least, I am very disappointed [with Win98]"
That addition probably would have prevented the confusion.
It wasn't the English, just a mind hack.
[
http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=rank&sortOrd]
If you don't include the right information at the right time, the brain
will confabulate information where it never existed. One big paragraph
with a whole lot of resolution problems and NIC detection problems reminds
the post-initiate Linux user of the time they had a six-hour deal with X11
and another two-day deal with a winmodem.
>> > I have an old Compaq with a Giga-Bite GA 5-smm MB, 256 Mb ram
>> > running an AMD
>> > K6-2 cpu I'm fixing up as a loaner for a friend. My friend prefers
>> > Windows, but I decided it would be a good chance to expose him to some
>> > Linux, so I decided to load Ubuntu on it as a second OS.
>> > To say the least, I am very disappointed. After spending several
>> > hours on the install, the video is stuck in 640x480, and the OS can't
>> > even find the ethernet card. I took another hour to find the video and
>> > LAN drivers I need to get it working properly, but the ones I've
>> > downloaded so far don't work at all. After more fruitless searching,
>> I'm
>> > beginning to think the drivers I need for it simply don't exist. It's
>> > rapidly becoming an exercise in frustration.
>> > Fortunately, the Ubuntu partition booted up and ran without a flaw
>> > from the very start, with full SVGA resolution, and it logs onto my
>> home
>> > network in a heartbeat. MEPIS, Puppy, and DSL ran just as well on it
>> > earlier, so that in itself tells me the hardware is working OK.
>> > After I finish with this last old box, think I'll stick all my old
>> > Windows
>> > '98 and ME CDs in the toaster, and make expensive Christmas ornaments
>> out
>> > of them so I won't be tempted to try this again!
>> > With tongue firmly in cheek,
>> > Stu
--
Alexander
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