Comments on: Yeah, I know. Bad blogger, no cookie.

By: Alcibiades McZombie

Alcibiades McZombie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:28:07 +0000

I once tried to compile Gentoo. I don’t remember if I ever finished.

By: TD

TD — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:23:01 +0000

Yeah, Ubuntu does an awesome job of automagically configuring all your hardware; I can’t recall ever hitting a snag with it.

By: existingthing

existingthing — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:15:25 +0000

Just finished a rebuild of my laptop with Ubuntu, which made absolutely zero complaints about my funky video card, odd network card, and slightly strange CD burner controller.

I felt like a mechanic ordering a used car through the mail. I kept looking under the hood to find some problem, but I couldn’t find a thing wrong.

It’s downright un-linux-like!

By: Tam

Tam — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:28:16 +0000

I know where my “On” switch is.

(The last time I even heard “VESA”, I was still writing autoexec.bat files on separate boot floppies for each different game I owned…)

By: drstrangegun

drstrangegun — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:45:35 +0000

Is the beast not machine-level VGA compatible? You don’t *have* to go VESA… reminds me of the days back when i was trying to wrangle a Trident 8900 16M VGA card to work with SLS Linux 0.89 …

By: existingthing

existingthing — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:47:32 +0000

Wow. Brings back memories of getting the funky video card working on my laptop for Fedora.

I’d be lying if I said I messed with it for days.

Never be too proud to go vesa. If only to regroup. I know it hurts.

By: Bitter

Bitter — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:35:21 +0000

I made it to “profoundly broken” and then just skipped until I got to “Sebastian.” That made it simple enough.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:24:12 +0000

I tried that once, declared it to be decidedly “not scottish” and moved on.