On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:03, duncan brown wrote: > howdy partners, > i'm looking to rustle up some rootin'-tootin' linux conversion stories, > be it from mac, winders or that there bee-ess-dee. i'd like the > positive and negative aspects of everything, and i'd really like to hear > from the cowpokes who aren't ready to be full blown computer cowboys, > the ones that are still a little green. so, if'n ya don't mind sittin' > fer a spell and writin' something for me, it'd be mighty big of ya and i > know a linux advocate that'd be pretty pleased. > > -d > > > -+(duncan brown > -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy > evidence of the fact. > -- George Eliot I remember running RH5.1 when it first came out and deciding I would get rid of everything I didn't need, like all those little /dev/files like ptty* using rm -fr * (who needs all that garbage anyways??). When I realized I goofed I spent the whole night using mknod to put back the stuff I needed. Unfortunately (NOBODY TOLD ME!!!) I didn't know that nodes were assigned. So when I tried to reboot @#$%^&*&^%$#. The next day I reloaded. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>