[PLUG] Exasperation

[Bill Ensley]

Where did you get the Fedora 7 Live CD?

-Bill Ensley
www.bearprinting.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of John 
> Jason Jordan
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:50 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Exasperation
> 
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:46:52 -0700
> "Tony Rick" <tonyr42 at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
> > On 3/22/07, Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I forgot to add the Chandler wobble.
> 
> I am happy to report that things are progressing better 
> today. I got into the fuse panel and discovered it is not the 
> fuses. And I tested the currrent at the headlight and there 
> is none. It's probably the switch. Fords are famous for bad 
> light switches. Still annoying. It's only ten years old. I'm 
> lots older than that and my lights still work.
> Well, mostly.
> 
> As for the monitor, a quick daylight trip to Jantzen Beach 
> and Best Buy at the airport turned up nothing that I wanted 
> to buy. But stopping at Free Geek on the way home yielded a 
> nice 19" Viewsonic Graphics Series G90f flat screen CRT that 
> will do 1920 x 1200. Free Geek wanted $30 for it, and I 
> turned over the cash cheerfully. It's sitting across the 
> table from me as I write this running Fedora 7 live CD 
> (32-bit), which autosensed the monitor (brand and model 
> number) and the video built into the motherboard (nVidia 
> GeForce 6100). Everything else is working too -- didn't have 
> to lift a finger. I swear, Fedora 7 is looking really, really 
> good. I'm impressed. That's a serious compliment, coming from 
> a diehard Ubuntuoid.
> 
> I haven't installed any OS on it yet; just running live CDs 
> to check out which one I want to start with. It has an 
> AMD64-2 4600 and 2 GB RAM. The motherboard has Gigabit 
> networking built in and Raid 0 and 1.
> I want to set up the two 320 GB SATA II hard drives as Raid 1 
> and use the computer mostly for backups, and also as a 
> failsafe so I have something to get on the net with next time 
> I screw up my laptop. I'm going to spend the rest of the day 
> trying different distros and getting it all set up. And 
> shopping for Ford light switches. 
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