[PLUG] Re: Warning About SuSE 8

[Robert]

To the Unhappy Person who obviously dislikes me:

Now I have 12 new subscription confirmation requests for misc garbage in my
mail box.  You even bothered to look up my address and personal information
for this.

But now it is time to take a step backward and relax.

I don't want subscriptions to the govindastore group hosted by Yahoo!
Groups, a FREE trial subscription to Six-Figure Income Magazine, Buzzine.com
"Here's a copy of your subscription data:" whatever that is, Focalex FREE
email subscriptions to Magmall Newsletter Special Offers Internet Shopper
Gambling Consumer Electronics Credit Cards Home Based Office
Freeware/Shareware Health Sports Travel Music Movies/Videos Computer
Hardware Webmasters
Special Offers Affiliates College Online Trading, or any of the others.

Subscribing me to Republican Party updates was cute, but the senior citizen
food order site order was a bit over the top and I hope it does not cost
them any money.

This is the worst attack anyone on the internet has ever launched at me,
even worse than the infamous Kadaitcha Man and his brand of personal
attacks. At least he kept it in the newsgroup.

Since you probably used Linux for this attack, congratulations, you are now
a Linux Terrorist!  I hope you are proud of yourself.

Robert





"Robert" <RobertsLinuxPosts at CorralCreek.com> wrote in message
news:gvar7f.kdp at drizzle.pdxlinux.org...
> As a Linux newbie (2 years of frustration now) I decided to try the new
> SuSE 8.0 distribution.  I last tried SuSE 7.2 and found it the best Linux
I
> had ever used, but gave it up for Red Hat 7.2 because I could not get it
to
> work right with my network, and standard Linux commands never worked
right.
> The configuration menus were a real pain too.
>
> So we arrive at today. SuSE 8.0 installed alright, easily in fact.  Weird
> though, it does not install a number of programs any newbie would normally
> use by default, so I choose them individually.  Among them Netscape 6.2,
CD
> burning software, and Mozilla mail (even though Mozilla browser is there,
> by default they leave out the mail program!?).
>
> I thought I had modem installation and internet access down to a science
> now, even in Linux, but the new SuSE has proven me wrong.  In Red Hat my
> modem is found under /dev/tty/S4.  The new SuSE only goes as far as /S3
and
> even if I manually enter /S4 it will not work.  No amount of experimenting
> with settings was able to produce a recognizable modem. I went through
> every  listed setting. So no internet access.
>
> I gave up on that and decided to now try the CD burning program, but found
> it is as defective as any other Linux CD Burner program I have ever (not
> been able to) use(d). It also detected my scanner automatically, but
> whenever I click on anything to do with the scanner, nothing happens.  At
> least with Red Hat, it scans an image, lets me look at it, and then
refuses
> to save it!
>
> SuSE 8.0 does have some nice new screen backrounds, but the fonts and
menus
> are typical Linux at its worst or near worst. I don't feel like wasting
> time fiddling with it since it is probably the best it can ever be and I
> will probably reinstall the whole mess again hoping it might, God willing,
> detect the modem next time.
>
> Although I spent the week hating Microsoft and hoping all the school
> districts would ban new Windows purchases and get Linux instead, I now am
> spending the weekend greatfull that a company like Microsoft provides an
> operating system that actually works right out of the box.
>
> As my tolerance for pain increases in the following weeks I'll be back
here
> asking more questions as I enter week 6 of trying to get Red Hat Linux
> Samba to work, as well as CD burning, scanning, and font adjustment.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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