Woot!

[lirion]

I has a working Linux box!
(I should also stop talking like a lolcats)

Despite my best efforts, Windoze virused on me the other day - well, not that my virus or spyware software think so, but Zone Alarm stopped initializing mysteriously and if I'm net connected the task bar and task manager freeze up and die and after a bit so does everything else until I need to hit the rest button. All bad really. Conincidentally this occurred as we were trying to make Linux go on the other partition. *cue spooky music*

Regardless, tonight thanks to the kindly assistance of one D, Debian it does not only run, but it talks to my modem as well. Yaaaay. mmm give me my fix of internettage.

It's been a long time since I've used a linux box, and I've still got some teething issues to work through. Name;ly I'm really missing my alt+tab ability at present. But I'll adjust, it's all good.

And at some point I've still go to blow about the old doze and reinstall it. After backing shit up.

But now, I believe I have several scrabble games to catch up on...

Comments

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Did you know that there's a version of Firefox for Debian users - called Iceweasel?! Dude!

Only reason I don't have it is because I'm dead set on going back to Fedora. I've been using Kubuntu over Debian for more than six months now, and I still miss Fedora :-S

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Heh, iceweasel lasted long enough on the box to download firefox and mozilla. Sometimes I want to punch the debian people clear into next week.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

I'll join you in the general punching. My biggest gripe with Linux all along has been that there are no Windoze/Mac-style keypad shortcuts for unusual characters - I hates character maps, hatessss 'em! My (real) name has a fada in it, and I always have to copy-paste because I can't be smegged to wrestle with the character map. Grrr arrgh.

Also, it seems that the slack Beast of Redmond mindset has infected the current generation of open-source coders. So much kerfuffle, so little comparative functionality :-(

I used to have FC2. It worked. It was good. Pass the Delorean...

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Hmm, never had to play with them much...

Yeah, I'm an oldishstyle sort of guy - I like fvwm, I don't need transparent windows and drop shadows and animated icons expanding. Save the bang for something important.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

I'm the opposite - for various reasons, I gave home computers a very wide berth for a very long time, apart from sound-synthesis and track-building applications. Having spent my life avoiding typewriters, avoiding word processing and the such was a natural extension :P

My first box was built by my big bro (the same very old school bro who, when faced with YM graphics a couple of years ago, screamed "NOOOO! It eats bandwidth!!!", heh) from sturdy old spares, and posted to me across the water pre-loaded with '98. Early '98. Stable '98. Taught myself to drive it and never even saw the infamous Blue Screen of Death until I moved down here and got a new box with XP on it...but I hatehatehate the Micro$oft business model and particularly hate the whole registration shite, and as my Dearly Beloved works for a Linux consultancy and was using ancient DeadRat at home, I was introduced the The Lurve and have never looked back :-)

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

And then, at night, the iceweasels come... *grin*

The Firefox/Iceweasel thing just makes me twitch - the whole bait-and-switch involved in the "well the software's free, but the logo isn't" is just... gah.

Sorry to hear that Debian didn't work out for you; hope the switch back is painless.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

There's always a catch, eh...

It's hard for me to explain what it is about Kubuntu/Debian that I'm not happy with - it's all tiny stuff, subtle stuff. It's not just that It Isn't Fedora, because for all my reverence of old ways and traditions, I'm also often at the head of the queue when something new comes along that does ring my bell.

Also, life will be much easier in any event once I collar Himself for long enough to get him to sort me out with ze VM, so I can ditch the wonky obstreperousness that is WINE (add extra H as desired) and run dear old Word without crashes, glitches and massive swearies!

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Didn't like Iceweasel and as commented below, we made ti go away again.

I like Debian... That said, I'm having some issues with the transition currently, just dealing with those niggly little difference until I adjust

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Scrabble? *perk*

So glad that you have a functional machine again, dearone. That sounded like it was very rapidly reaching head-explodey levels of frustration.

[lirion.livejournal.com]

When i have more brain yes. I'm still pretty burned out and all. But yes. Also, if you're on gtalk or something I'm more likely to realise you are online and available for scrabbling :)