[SLUG] Al's laptop

[Fintan Gaughan]

* Al Girling <al21 at firenet.uk.com> [2005-01-21 13:24:16 +0000]:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:21:15PM GMT, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> > 
> > Hey Al
> 
> > Did you get your laptop sorted?  i knew it was old and your were
> > installing Debian (i think) and were getting help installing it
> > 
> > How did it go?
> 
> Well, the reason I took it to the install day was I knew I had more
> chance of winning the lottery than getting X working on it myself.  This
> they guys from York achieved, but I had various things I wasn't too
> happy about with it.  The version of Fluxbox installed originally had a
> variety of known faults which I'd fixed in the past by compiling
> fluxbox-0.1.14 which is what I use on this desktop machine.  However
> some some reason it didn't fix them this time. :(  Other things like the
> laptop not shutting off *ever* until the battery ran flat didn't help
> the situation either.  So after a fair bit of fiddling I lost my rag.
> Teddy bears all over the place!  As root I did rm -rf / 
> 
> Mucho satisfaction.  It's now sitting under the table awaiting me to
> have another go some day.
> 
> Al


Ha ha never mind
it was interesting to watch but main reason i came down to see linux on xbox which never happned so another let down on another LUG :-(
But watching your laptop getting installed and talking to paul kept me there longer other wise i would have left

Fintan 
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