Very Computer

Keep in mind that flatfish makes this stuff up as he goes along.
Pete and he are a tag team now -

It's really sad, this whole linux thing is eating him up inside,
he's just sick with rage and grief - although it's anybody's
guess what his motivation is...

jjs

So today I went to start up my windows palm pilot software, and it
crashed straight away. I tried again and explorer crashed.
Ctrl-alt-del worked a few times, but Windows would not shut down. In
the end it hung completely.
BRS time.

Quote:>Next boot up entire file system is scrambled and after 5 hours of
>churning still has not produced a working system.

Next boot up, Windows took an age to scandisk, and I had corrupted
files. When it finally got into Windows, it told me I had a registry
error and had to reboot again. Three reboots later it finally seemed
to be ok, until about an hour later when Windows hung again.

Quote:>Great system this Windows.
>Great system indeed.
>Great system NOT!!!!

I only use a text login. It sounds like you only logged out though.

At a command prompt type this:

shutdown -h now

(In other words "shutdown and halt now")

And report back on results.

Regards,
Adam

Hi again,

Quote:> shutdown -h now

Note you may have to be superuser to shut down the computer. If so type:

su

To switch to superuser. And then type the shutdown command.

Regards,
Adam

Quote:> Difference my experience is real and yours is imagined or you would
> have posted it here earlier in glee.

It is highly unlikely you were able to trash your partition just by turning
the computer off.

And there is no way an ext2 file system check would take 5 hours of
churning. How big is the partition? 1000GB?

Regards,
Adam

Well, nice try.  But Linux don't do that.

I don't know how many more hundreds of messages your going
to put out here, but I'm noticing an explosion of growth
in Linux for the month of January.  

There are entire shops being Linuxfied over here.
It surprises me.  

I'm running into people in my bookstores, computer stores,
associates from my sigs, fello hams,,, Linux is
taking over several business's and datacenters in my town
and it's been doing it for 3 months now.

I don't see much future for Microsoft at the current
rate of growth.

Microsoft is loosing it's customer base rapidly.
We should be seeing some news about this soon in
the conventional media.

I'm surprised, happy, and shocked all at the same time.
These shops aren't trying experiments with a server
or two.  They are simply throwing OUT the entire windows
nightmare.  

Things are happening rapidly now.

Charlie

He said he owns stock in Microsoft.

Just give up on Linux already.  You're cursed.

I've been using it for 6 years now, and that's never happend to me.

--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

You mean like one of the fun afternoons I had with Win98?

Running the Encyclopedia Britannica, something went wrong, and my disk
(with about 200MB free normally) filled up. The usual "your disk is getting
full, let's clean up this mess" requester came up --- and utterly failed
to make any more space.
I then went in and searched for large files with the find file utility.
Nothing showed up.

OK, this is Windows, so let's reboot (not all too easy, with Win98 always
whinging about running low on disk space). It comes back up, and starts
complaining that its registry is corrupt, and wants to reboot (which it
claims will fix it).
After three such reboots, it's fairly evident that rebooting does *not*
fix it. So I tell it to ignore the "corruption" and just get on with
it. It immediately starts whinging about being low on disk (no shit,
Sherlock!). Reacting to the whinging in any way will only bring up more
requesters.

So, ignoring everything that can possibly be ignored (and by ignoring, I
don't mean clicking on "ignore" here, but rather move-out-of-the-way),
I finally get some sort of desktop booted up, with quite a few requesters
on top wanting my attention. Of course, a lot of wasted time has taught
me to ignore them all, because they only lead to more requesters or
annoying reboots (hey, just like spam email :)

Find file again, looking for large files --- and suddenly, there is a 200MB
output file from the EB. Why didn't that show up before? Oh well, who knows,
who cares, just delete it. Reboot, and...

.suddenly, my "corrupted" registry is no longer corrupted. Wow!

Anybody who can work themselves out of that situation without completely
reinstalling the OS can use Linux, too.

Bernie
--
Human blunders, however, usually do more to shape history
    than human wickedness
A.J.P. Taylor
British historian, 1906-90

: Just give up on Linux already.  You're cursed.
: I've been using it for 6 years now, and that's never happend to me.

Your charity is touching.  Or to put it another way...

: > BRS time.

Obviously inserting that "R" was a typo.

--
David Steinberg                             -o)
Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC         / \

use SuSE Linux with reiserfs, then life will be easier.  Also, until you
actually use other distro's and stop *ing like an old hen, NOW ONE
will take you seriously as a Linux critic, instead most will view you as
a 15 year old punk with a chip on his shoulder.

Matt

He is the funniest *ing * we have.

He can't manage to use his real name because his own
comments would embarrase him.

He could make up a name for himself, but I guess
he will always be flatfish.

Well, he's always asking why flatfish.

I'll tell you why flatfish.

Flatfish to me means tuna.  He's caught in a net
somewhere and got canned.

That's what I think.

Charlie

Nope, had similar experiences several times.
Difference is, with wintendo one takes such things for granted
and does not report every occurence of it. Otherwise you would
be reporting constantly

--
Linux is simply a fad that has been generated by the media
We are Borg. Resistance is futile (Borg Gates)

I'm not making anything up.

You are in denial because I'm threatening your sacred cow.

--
Pete, running KDE2 on Linux Mandrake 7.2

Quote:> And before you tell me that Mandrake is NOT Linux, to me it IS Linux
> because that is the distribution that I bought.

Well, you're wrong.

-Ed

--
Did you know that the reason that windows steam up in cold|Edward Rosten
weather is because of all the fish in the atmosphere?     |u98ejr

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