On Sunday, Jan 4, 2004, at 03:19 America/Denver, Jesse Meyer wrote:
6) Keep a notebook of what you do!
Oooh... good one. I always forget to mention that one. When the
power's out, the UPS has died, and there's "nothing to do" it's amazing
how interesting it is to go back through the "logbook" a
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X
> windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure.
> For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I
> could lay my hands on, but my fiddling has
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:39:30 -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> >The question is: Given my current state, is it reasonable to try to
>> >fix each of my problems separately, or would it be more sensible to
>> >keep only the critical data and start over with a new installation?
>
>> A large HD is
> >The question is: Given my current state, is it reasonable to try to
> >fix each of my problems separately, or would it be more sensible to
> >keep only the critical data and start over with a new installation?
> A large HD is your friend and they certainly are cheap now.
Thanks Hugo, Nate,
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:24:41AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 11:06 am, Nano Nano wrote:
>
> > I've got all my dotfiles saved, so after I wipe, I have to do *zero*
> > customization. In other contexts I would make other decisions.
>
> Not trying to be argumentative here
On Friday 02 January 2004 11:06 am, Nano Nano wrote:
> I've got all my dotfiles saved, so after I wipe, I have to do *zero*
> customization. In other contexts I would make other decisions.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just an observation...
Isn't it the configuration files where the mi
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:38:27AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 10:18 am, Nano Nano wrote:
>
> > Now I have my install scripted: boot from Woody, install, upgrade to SID
> > from local partial mirror, run scripts. I wipe the disk or reinstall
> > when anything gets the lea
On Friday 02 January 2004 10:18 am, Nano Nano wrote:
> Now I have my install scripted: boot from Woody, install, upgrade to SID
> from local partial mirror, run scripts. I wipe the disk or reinstall
> when anything gets the least bit squirrelly, which can be as little as
> one day or as much as e
On Friday 02 January 2004 09:54 am, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X
> windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure.
> For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I
> could lay my hands on, but my
Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X
windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure.
For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I
could lay my hands on, but my fiddling has clearly made things worse.
I
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:54:25AM -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> The question is: Given my current state, is it reasonable to try to
> fix each of my problems separately, or would it be more sensible to
> keep only the critical data and start over with a new installation?
When I was learning las
Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X
windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure.
For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I
could lay my hands on, but my fiddling has clearly made things worse.
I hardly know what's w
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