[Cumbria] Re: Sadness of IT
Ken Hough
cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Jan 14 13:19:05 2003
Roger Cope wrote:
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>>Have just done re-install of Red Hat. Seems more sensible this time.
>>Haven't a clue what went wrong last time.
>>Got a few icons on the screen and 'nautilus' runs. Networking seems OK,
>>so will have a play.
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>>A bit of a sad way to spend a Sunday morning, but I'm stuck with my dog
>>who can't decide whether she's in season or not.
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>>Ken
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>That's nothing... I just spent Saturday, Sunday and half of Monday
>rebuilding my two Redhat 7.3 servers into one RedHat 8.0 server.
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>And then, after 2.5 days solid graft - just as I was going to sit back and
>enjoy my labours, BT conspired to screw up a 155MBps upgrade for my ISP and
>plunged my ADSL connection into darkness for three hours.
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>Not chuffed!!
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>Roger
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Heartfelt sympathies! But life's like that sometimes.
I'm currently playing with RH 8, just to learn about it. Have to say I'm
not that impressed so far, but then I'm a SuSE v8 user. (quickly ducks
again to avoid incoming flames)
Good luck
Ken Hough