Comments on: The recession caught them by surprise I guess.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:05:25 +0000

Uh…. okay…..I suppose…..

By: schwim

schwim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:33:46 +0000

I think if you dig deep enough, you’ll find a single CD-R company behind all of the linux distros.

It’s the only explanation that makes sense.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:08:41 +0000

The Cnet guy must work undercover for Ballmer: “Hey there WinPeople. You want to try Linux? Try Fedora. You’ll be back.”

By: schwim

schwim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:45:47 +0000

Well, I found this CNet article, titled Fedora 11, so easy you'll forget it's linux in the gen chat forum of linuxforums.com. I got a kick out of the fact that the thread pointing people to an article touting the ease of use became the forum's most active support topic. If it had come earlier, I'd be on it like white on rice, but as it stands it's going to have to wait for me to get unhappy with one of my computers.

By: schwim

schwim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:42 +0000

I don't know what we were worried about, Bert.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:22:43 +0000

Harrrr!!! Since last we spoke…..
>DL borked… would not load…. liked the single window install but “Installation complete. Have fun!” didn’t work for me… several attempts… no luck.
>That was on Thursday afternoon. Yard sale to get ready for on Saturday so, having no time to screw around, I ran Puppy 4.2 for a couple of days Sweet but IMHO not for everyday use. Downloaded F11 Gnome & KDE4.
>Tried F11 (both) but neither liked my hard drive: wanted to wipe and reinitialize. Had keeper data in another partition so screw that.
>Installed Debian(KDE) on same drive no problem. Said, “Hmmmmm…”
>Tried DL and F11 again on same drive. No way. Again: “Hmmmm…”
>Checked drive with PMagic LiveCD and fixed errors.
>Still no install DL and F11. “What?”
>Pulled drive and dropped in a 20GB. Installed F11 Gnome with ext4. Ok.
>Ran F11 for a couple of days. Updated completely and fully configured. Buggy and bloated.
>Pulled the 20GB and put back original. Installed Debian XFCE no problem.
>Fully configured it and love it. Very quick
>LXDE is on same Debian CD as XFCE so installed that to 20GB drive for giggles.. Like that too. Very lean and mean.

Looks like I’ll park with Deb/XFCE for awhile. Runs great on this box with no V/C and just a 1.4GH Athlon XP. Not much horsepower but it’s got 1GB Ram.

Adventures in LinuxLand but I’m stable again now.

By: schwim

schwim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:49:02 +0000

what OS are you on, Rick?

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:31:21 +0000

Caffeine rules. And, in my case, cigarettes.
Good write, Bert. I get it and I think you’re right.
But I think the “signal” in social networking may not exist except for specific issues (i.e., Iran uprising). The significant issue is perhaps simply that it is happening among (younger) people in a quest to understand and make use of the virtual world.
Maybe it will just go away like the hula-hoop or disco or platform shoes or Vanilla Ice as people just get bored with it or (hopefully) choose to “get a life.”

By: schwim

schwim — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:42:29 +0000

Either that Bert, or take over my blog. That brought a tear to my eye.

I myself would find the coffee hard to give up.

By: Evil_Bert

Evil_Bert — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:53:47 +0000

Hey schwim, do you think I ought to cut back on the caffeine?