As someone who shall remain nameless has sent me a set of Debian install cds, and the version of Red Hat on this little laptop is getting long in the tooth, I'll probably be installing that later today. Which means either sharing the cds on the real computer using a nice, simple and already configured FTP daemon, or getting bloody NFS working. At least I've got an ethernet card in the thing this time; last time the install involved PLIP. You don't want to know how long it took. And that was just the configuration. . .
I am not a geek, by the way. Which is why I'll be saving my XF86Config from the current install, rather than setting it up again. You have to configure with a monitor attached rather than using the built-in screen, and I'm already going to have cables all over the place.
The fact that I probably have a copy in one of my sent email directories from when I helpfully mailed the thing to some poor bastard complaining on comp.os.linux.portable is not indicative of geekiness, and I resent your implication, sir.
I appear to be the anti-Lileks. Not just because the warbloggers link here while condemning the politics but grooving on the pop culture stuff, but because both of us are way behind the curve. He recently picked The New Yorker and finally became aware of the anti-SUV crusade that the Car Talk guys have been on for a while. I saw the September Harper's Magazine, and saw they'd quoted a bit of Gail Simone's (quite dated by now) Women in Refrigerators. This was noted a week or so back on rec.arts.comics.misc, and Gail sez there was additional material that didn't make the cut. Or got cut. Or something.
Gail (who's old column/satire thingee You'll All Be Sorry! is still available at Comic Book Resources) is currently doing Killer Princesses with Lea Hernandez, along with lots of other stuff I'm too lazy to look up right now. She chimed in on the WOMEN IN COMICS: This Is Your Last Call thread on the WEF, along with Lea, Finder's Carla Speed McNeil, and a whole bunch of other folks I'm forgetting. Time and money sink, the thing is. Comics equivalent of Ecto, basically.
Other reason I'm the anti-Lileks? I link things. A lot. Possibly too much.
We've all realized that entries with pretty pictures mean I'm using a real computer, while these text-only ones mean I'm on the laptop, right?
Oh yeah, and Cleopatra Jones is looking for laptop recommendations. Not the steampunk variety, so I got nothing to contribute. As usual.
Duh. WiR is described by the woman herself as:
This is a list I made when it occurred to me that it's not that healthy to be a female character in comics. I'm curious to find out if this list seems somewhat disproportionate, and if so, what it means, really.These are superheroines who have been either depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator. I know I missed a bunch. Some have been revived, even improved -- although the question remains as to why they were thrown in the wood chipper in the first place.
There's commentary by some pros, too. Go on. It'll give you that warm, "misogyny lives in fiction" feeling.
The weird thing is, even the women writers in comics are less then respectful about female heroines -remember the early nineties Black Canary series?
Skipped that one. Like most fans, I got out of comics for a while, then got dragged back in kicking and screaming.
What happened? Or will I feel better not knowing?
Thanks for linking to my laptop lust entry. Jason was toying with me telling me how he is going home to load new software on his laptop.
Strange. Thought I was the evil one, and Jason was MLK.
I bet he's not looking forward to the new Dixie Chicks cd either.
He's probably not and you know he needs to be punished for that.
Debian is great, but just different enough from RedHat to give you a strange sense of disconnect if you've never used it before. It's my favorite distro and has been since I needed to install Linux on an old Dell XPST 133 Laptop w/o a cdrom drive. At the time, 1999, only the Debian installation floppies would properly set up the pcmcia ethernet card and let me do an FTP install off the Internet. I left Mandrake and Redhat behind that day for my personal systems. I do admin a couple of RedHat boxes though.
The Goodness of Debian GNU/Linux
More Debian Love...
And yes, I am a nerd, geek, whatever...
Thank you for posting that toshiba 486 link! I have a T1950 that kinda chugs along with win95. I use it as my emergency machine. I never considered putting linux on it. Which redhat are you running on yours? And, while I am asking for stuff, could you post if your debian install worked with the hardware?
Sciatica, right now I'm running RH 6.2 (Zoot), updated to within an inch of its life (kernel 2.2.19-6.2.16 - tried compiling my own, but 24 MB of RAM and a DX/50, it would take a weekend).
Speaking of weekends, will probably do the update while people with lives are at the State Fair. Although, come to think of it, I wasn't actually invited to come with. . .
chb, it's that semi-learning curve that worries me. And I'm not sure if I should re-partition, and risk losing the not-working-now-anyway Windows 95 install. Reinstalling would involve more of the boot floppies and networking 95 & 98, or worse DOS. . .
Or making that set of 3.1 images that are still taking up space for no particular reason. Think last time I actually did 3.1 first, and then upgraded via PLIP.
I am not a geek, by the way.
Oh, and Michelle? At least wait until after Jason's vacation for the punishing.
Then go ballistic.
I don't think he's really on vacation. He was in the office yesterday. I think it's just wishful thinking on his part. I could be wrong of course.
Thanks, Aaron. I have 6.2, so I'll give it a shot.
Darn, and here I was going to offer to send my old 6.2 install cds. What are you supposed to do with those old things, anyway? I also have some burned cds for 7-7.2 sitting around collecting dust. . .
Only problem you might run into is updating RPM itself; think 6.2 shipped with 2.x and up2date will demand you go to 3.x before doing anything else. Maybe. It's been a while.
Michelle, I think Jason's vacation was from the non-stop consciousness-raising seminars that are life for Negroes in this country. Or on the Web, at least.
...whilst wearing a straw hat and drinking a pina colada in a halved coconut...
yes, this is merely a mental vacation...one that isn't going very well...
and, you're right, I have no opinion whatsoever about the upcoming dixie chicks album. Didn't even know there was an upcoming dixie chicks album.
Although, I did hear a good joke by a not so funny comedian who slyly mentioned that he wanted to start a band with his buddies and call it the chixie dicks.
heh.
...oh, cabana boy! refill please. make it a double...
Not a good joke. You need to make it a double.
or apt-get install whatever and let apt take care of the dependencies. There is an apt for rpm but I'm not sure how other distributions deal with the dependency database. I use Yellow Dog on a little imac at work and I'm pretty impressed with the number of available packages especially since it's a different chipset and all.
Oh, duh. APT-RPM does support 6.2. You'd still have to update to RPM 4; I was one version behind in that previous message.
And although you can use up2date, Ximian's Red Carpet and apt-rpm on the same machine, I'd advise against it. Luckily, they're (usually) smart enough to tell you they can't/won't/shouldn't conflict with each other.
Black Canary got involved somewhere in the Middle East, as part of a harem and iirc hamstringed -had to be rescued by a Big Strong Man of course.
All in the name of feminism.
Aaron,
Thanks for the kind offer of the install CDs. I am a geek, so I am required by our by-laws to already have a copy. Thanks, too, for the rpm advice.
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