[Preston] Hello

[Caroline]

Hi,

<brag>This is a *real, legal* copy of XP!  I really am allowed to install 
it (on my machine, not allowed to make copies, etc).  It's got a proper 
yellow sticker and everything! </brag>  :-p

I wouldn't be comforable without Partition Magic. It's a bit unsettling at 
first though. I remember wondering why it didn't need to reboot 42 times, 
like windows normally has to.

On my  course, we do a few languages (to various depths). These include 
(I've probably missed something out)  C, C++, html, Javascript, Visual 
Basic, assembly, and PIC programming (starting after 
Christmas).  Nonetheless, programming doesn't seem to be my strong point. 
Although I find it challenging, I usually come out with an average-ish 
grade. I like doing the web stuff, though.

We have a few Linux boxes at uni, and I believe it it's possible to get 
user accounts on them, although I haven't tried. There might be a Kylix 
module in the 3rd year, but I'm not positive on that.

I'll let you know about Gnome2, as I intend to install *everything* (much 
simpler than having to choose)!

Have fun,

Caroline.


At 14:44 07/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>'ellow,
>
>There seemed to be a number of 'shareware' licences for XP going around here
>last year too :).  I am glad that its all working now (and that your
>house/hall was not burned down in the process!) and I hope it continues to
>when SuSE is installed.  It shouldn't give you any problems; its got *very
>good* set-up tools.  I would only advise that you use a program like
>PartitionMagic on windows to create the Linux and Swap partitions before you
>install SuSE.  That's what I did and it has worked perfectly.  I think that
>expecting Linux installers to act as fully-fledged partitioning programs can
>be a bit dodgy at the moment (they're getting better all the time, of
>course, but I don't think they can resize NTFS partitions yet).
>
>I have also heard that win9x is a lot easier to learn programming on too, as
>you can quite quickly expose its gubbins.  What language are you using?  We
>did some C (not low-level stuff, though) last year on windows that was not
>too hard to port to Linux (as long as you make it as ANSI-compliant as
>possible on windows).  I must admit that I was a bit disappointed that
>UNIX/Linux didn't come up in our course sooner.  The 1st years now are being
>taught C on Linux.  Recently we finished a project to make a web site.  We
>had to learn Perl to do this and we also needed knowledge of UNIX/Linux web
>servers.  It was such a laugh watching the windows users forget to upload
>files and wonder why they weren't working for hours when I was just logged
>in directly with ssh :).
>
>Anyway, enjoy SuSE.  If you install/use GNOME2 on it, please could you let
>me know what its like?  I heard it was crippled like RH's KDE and I really
>need GNOME2 so I am anxious about making the move to SuSE 8.1 or later
>now...  Thanks (but don't worry if you don't want to install GNOME2)!
>
>bye just now,
>
>
>matthew