The Hang Out: /jerk

[Jetsetlemming]

I suggest mikey burn his computer with lighter fluid to drive out teh demons. :O It worked on my old computer!

[Mikey_]

I've resolved to swap over to Linux about six or seven different times. Usually I install it, and conclude after about three or four hours that it's just not worth the effort. I'm too used to Windows now... I know that Linux would be good if I put the time into learning it. But feeling like a computer idiot all over again for a few weeks somehow doesn't seem worth it.

I had sort of the same situation learning to use the Dvorak keyboard. x_X It was actually painful to type for the first few weeks...

I actually wouldn't mind taking the time to learn how to manage Linux. If only it would install. All I get is strange errors after the Linux kernel loads up. I did manage to get Knoppix live cd to boot up, but it was slow as hell. After trying different versions and discs of Ubuntu, Knoppix, and openSUSE, I gave up. I never knew how freakin' hard it is to even install Linux.

[Elin]

I suggest mikey burn his computer with lighter fluid to drive out teh demons. :O It worked on my old computer!

This is indeed sage advice. Alternatively, thou canst douse thy processor in blessed waters. If it catcheth fire as a result, be not worried; 'tis just the evil being burned away.

[Mikey_]

I suggest mikey burn his computer with lighter fluid to drive out teh demons. :O It worked on my old computer!

I'm thinking of just buying a new PC. This one is pretty basic. 512MB of ram, nVidia GeForce 5200 FX, 2.9Ghz CPU, etc. Runs things just fine. But I've never had this much trouble with a PC since Windows ME.

[Elin]

I actually wouldn't mind taking the time to learn how to manage Linux. If only it would install. All I get is strange errors after the Linux kernel loads up. I did manage to get Knoppix live cd to boot up, but it was slow as hell. After trying different versions and discs of Ubuntu, Knoppix, and openSUSE, I gave up. I never knew how freakin' hard it is to even install Linux.

Ack, that's weird. x_X I didn't really have any problems... And it ran perfectly stable for the duration that I had it installed...

[Fer!]

Once with our old computer, Windows died the same day I installed it. But that was the crapfest known as ERROR WINDOWS HAS PERFORMED AN ILLEGAL OPERATION. YOUR FILES ARE GONE, BUT HERE IS A BLUE SCREEN FOR YOU TO ENJOY INSTEAD. Aka Windows 98.

XP is usually stable-ish, though, viruses notwithstanding. o.O

Yeah, I don't get why many people hate XP, it works perfectly with me. I only have reformatted it like...three times in two years for critical errors.

I suggest mikey burn his computer with lighter fluid to drive out teh demons. :O It worked on my old computer!

I second this, kinda like Jimi Hendrix guitar.

[Mikey_]

Ack, that's weird. x_X I didn't really have any problems... And it ran perfectly stable for the duration that I had it installed...

LUCKY.

[Fer!]

This is indeed sage advice. Alternatively, thou canst douse thy processor in blessed waters. If it catcheth fire as a result, be not worried; 'tis just the evil being burned away.

I can picture a medieval priest saying that.

With a USB flash as a necklace and all.

[Elin]

Yeah, I don't get why many people hate XP, it works perfectly with me. I only have reformatted it like...three times in two years for critical errors.

I actually run 2K rather than XP, but yeah, I agree. I used it for the longest time via my brother's computer and, besides the time he picked up a nasty virus, I don't recall anything ever going seriously wrong. Of course there were little errors here and there, but it is still Windows after all.

[Elin]

I can picture a medieval priest saying that.

With a USB flash as a necklace and all.

Hee hee. Sounds like the basis for a bad internet joke...

How are things anyway, Fer?

[Elin]

LUCKY.

Hey, who are you calling lucky? It was skill. I installed Linux really, really well.

...

Okay, maybe not.

[Mikey_]

Hey, who are you calling lucky? It was skill. I installed Linux really, really well.

Really? Well, maybe you can explain why I get an I/O error when trying to install Ubuntu.

...

Take that back!

Okay, maybe not.

DAMNIT!

[Elin]

Take that back!

I read this and thought, "Okay, I'm going to be really unfunny and write what I wrote backwards. To take it back! It'll be awful and cringe-worthy. Okay, so let's think about this, what's '...' backwards? Oh. Right."

Either I need sleep, or I'm completely dense. Or both.

[Fer!]

Hee hee. Sounds like the basis for a bad internet joke...

How are things anyway, Fer?

I wish I had decent photoshopping skills.

Eh, well...I'm easter vacation, school is going sweet and almost everything on my life is kinda...slow and boring, you know, the kind of slow and boring that you are happy with.

I should be searching for a job though.

What about you Ed?

[Elin]

I wish I had decent photoshopping skills.

Eh, well...I'm easter vacation, school is going sweet and almost everything on my life is kinda...slow and boring, you know, the kind of slow and boring that you are happy with.

I should be searching for a job though.

What about you Ed?

That's good to hear. What sort of job would you like? Within reason, of course.

And things are fine, really. Got exams coming up soon, though. x_X First week back after the holidays, maybe. I came second place in a writing contest here, though, which was nice. Although I have to go to a reading of the winning works next month, which is a little bit daunting...