Hi all, but Bret and Adam especially, I have been reading the post on this subject and am really worried now about joining IRC and asking for help. Like Peter I have also used PC/M, in fact I started with the very early Spectrums from Sir Clive. I have also talked people through (over amateur radio) editing Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files, sometimes over and over again. Like many other users I am new to LINUX, not new to computers. Therefore I EXPECT to make mistakes, how else can I learn? If I ask 'how do I edit this config file' I want you to tell me just that, not have me email it to you and you email the edited file back, how on earth can I learn anything from that? After all, if I wanted to put a plug on a new bit of coax I wouldn't send it to someone else to do for me! Maybe some would!! Please, please, please treat me as a new LINUX user and not as a complete dork. Regards Peter
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Hunter <peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Hi all, but Bret and Adam especially,
I have been reading the post on this subject and am really worried now about joining IRC and asking for help.
There's no need to worry. We're a friendly, if sometimes odd, bunch.
Like Peter I have also used PC/M, in fact I started with the very early Spectrums from Sir Clive. I have also talked people through (over amateur radio) editing Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files, sometimes over and over again.
Before Amstrad got their grubby paws on it, then :) God, I remember the days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and am very glad that I don't have to deal with that any more :)
Like many other users I am new to LINUX, not new to computers. Therefore I EXPECT to make mistakes, how else can I learn?
Mistakes are where the real fun comes in, I'll agree with that :)
If I ask 'how do I edit this config file' I want you to tell me just that, not have me email it to you and you email the edited file back, how on earth can I learn anything from that? After all, if I wanted to put a plug on a new bit of coax I wouldn't send it to someone else to do for me! Maybe some would!!
That's *exactly* the kind of info me and adam give, we do not (as far as possible) get you to send us files by e-mail, we carefully consider what you might or might not already know, and go for the simplest, safest approach for the given situation.
Please, please, please treat me as a new LINUX user and not as a complete dork.
Your wish is our command, sir! Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCy6eqEh8oWxevnjQRAk9IAJ4/eD88ZWMbzW55Z7MUvkmXUhmbiQCfTWPb 1SJDBatekQZ82yzLlWKaErM= =OFqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Before Amstrad got their grubby paws on it, then :) God, I remember the days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and am very glad that I don't have to deal with that any more :)
Actually I sort of miss those days. I remember hours of fun trying to balance loaded TSR's with available (and pretty scarce) RAM. Oh and remember the different areas of Ram Extended and Expanded wasn't it ? PC Tools and early versions of Norton Utils ? Not forgetting having to use Debug to low level format Hard Drives and manually parking heads before moving machines. OK you're right it wasn't that much fun was it :-)
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 22:11 +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Oh and remember the different areas of Ram Extended and Expanded wasn't it ?
At uni we used the generic term "expended memory" to cover both cases because we could never remember which was which either :-) Other phrases that come to mind... "autobat.exec", "soobimitsu disk drives" (Mitsubishi) Peter O
Hi Peter On Wednesday 06 July 2005 10:32, Peter Hunter wrote:
I have been reading the post on this subject and am really worried now about joining IRC and asking for help. <snip> Please, please, please treat me as a new LINUX user and not as a complete dork.
They are a really helpful bunch on IRC, honest. Why, it was only last Saturday that we had a lad from Florida University joining in asking for some *very* specialist help - Couldn't fix the problem as it turned out that the machine had suffered some physical damage during a move.. In general, the conversations that usually take place start with the assumption that everyone is a linux user, not necessarily a power user, but never a numskull. Regards, Paul. -- Pieces of seven, pieces of seven - A parroty error. "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password." From a collection of quotes at http://www.indigo.org/quotes.html
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If I ask 'how do I edit this config file' I want you to tell me just that, not have me email it to you and you email the edited file back, how on earth can I learn anything from that? After all, if I wanted to put a plug on a new bit of coax I wouldn't send it to someone else to do for me! Maybe some would!!
Some people I know would be very wise to give it to someone else to do... -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.
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