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From: script||die on 25 Jan 2010 13:56 On 01/24/2010 04:24 AM, David Bolt wrote: > On Saturday 23 Jan 2010 17:25, while playing with a tin of spray paint, > script||die painted this mural: > > <snip> > >> Well speak of the devil, wickerman! That free 10.3 install I was talking >> about, the one that's been grinding since 2003 without intervention, it >> stopped showing images in FF, something I was going to fix it this >> evening. It was a dual boot with dozeXP aboard too but never used. The >> owner told me a week ago but couldn't wait > > They never heard of patience? Maybe searching Google? How about 5 mins > on a phone, when you have that 5 mins to spare? >> and called out a 'tech' who > ^^^^^^ > Oh dear. This one was rather peculiar. He just wanted something to run like a tank doing net browsing, email and absolutely nothing else. Patience is another story, ever see people clicking incessantly until the window does open and then have 10 of them fullscreen one over the other? >> immediately erased everything on both drives, > > Why the hell did he wipe the Windows drive? More to the point, why did > he wipe _both_ drives? A youngster I think, wanted to show off that he had graduated to an installation expert. >> installed a leftover Vista >> he probably couldn't sell anymore on them and told him he had been >> dealing with an idiot who had created a mess he'd never seen before (or >> congrats to that effect, I wasn't there). The bill came out to something >> less that $200. > > Sounds like he thinks he's found someone who can become an easy source > of money. He's going to be surprised. >> It's only a question of time :-) > > That's especially true if he's going to charge loads of money and you > were providing help for free, or just a cuppa. You'll probably want to > get at least two or three cuppas because I can foresee them not setting > them up with any antivirus software and they've quite probably become > infected. Hell I was just kidding, if he gets stuck I'll clone him another freebee :-) I'm working on a little kit to make it really easy (on myself).
From: script||die on 25 Jan 2010 14:03 On 01/24/2010 09:17 AM, houghi wrote: > Then when they complain, I just point at them and say "Hah, hah!" and > tell them to please call the Microsoft support for any help. Or if they > are close friends I tell them jut to FOAD. :-D I have a little speech that works with some of them, especially the type that, if you invented a skidoo to go to the moon would say "show me how it works in 5 minutes". You know the type? Goes like this "You have two choices: learn to be a passanger in the peanut butter sandwich section in a year or learn to be the driver in 13 months". Freud would say I'm trying to get rid of them.
From: script||die on 25 Jan 2010 14:10 On 01/24/2010 11:27 AM, David Bolt wrote: > And it does mean that script||die will have more time now he's got one > less to deal with. I'd have to say that felt great, alas I know better. Even with the best of users continuous connection is trouble looking for a moment, add to that a lethal clue-vacuum and a month on the outside I'll be back there :-)) Just had an idea, I think the next time I'll just hand him a live frisbee, think I still have 10.3 or an 11.0.
From: script||die on 25 Jan 2010 14:30 On 01/24/2010 01:20 PM, houghi wrote: > * And why do you need a virus scanner? Why not make it so you don't need > one? > * Wow, that is pretty expensive for a yearly update for a virus scanner. > * So you need admin rights to do that? Isn't that dangerous and makes > you vurlnerable for virusses? > * Why don't you get at least 4GB of software to install when you pay so > much for it? :-))))))))))) I just take a piece of paper and write down dd if=/clean-1.iso of=/dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /doze1 cd /doze1 tar xzpvf /attic/injection.bak.tgz and tell'em that's what my windows anti-virus used to cost me until I got fed up with being ripped.
From: David Bolt on 25 Jan 2010 16:11
On Monday 25 Jan 2010 18:29, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: > David Bolt wrote: >>> cd repo_software >>> configure && make && make install >> >> The only problem would be figuring out which package management system >> to use since, if it's from scratch, there won't be one in use before >> adding the repo software. > > First you must decide if it will be rpm, deb or tgz based. Now that's a bit of a hard choice, especially since I've only ever really used one of those. I'll give you three guesses which one I'd choose. I'll give you a clue, it's the one specified in the LSB :-) > Then you can > see hwat your requirements are and then you make a pick of those that > are left. > > Now it could be that you already decided to use and installed rpm. You looked, didn't you? Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M0 32b openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 |