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Skriven 2006-11-27 06:19:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: compress.cfg
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Hello Maurice.

 MK> Nov 26 20:25 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> I almost bought a flash disk friday however the deal was a rebate
 WC> thing.

 MK> I hate those deals.  There is talk of eliminating that and just giving
 MK> the deal at the till instead since too many people have gotten ripped
 MK> off by sending those in and never getting the rebate.  I never bother
 MK> and have stopped buying rebate thingies.  Usually a rip off from the
 MK> word go.

Eleven years on my Canon bubble jet and still no rebate.
Yeah I take it as being bait and switch.
Lure you in with the promise than change the deal.
On principle I refuse to participate in this.

In fact the Radio Shack emplyee tried to interest me in a 2 Gig flash drive
discounted to $25 dollars without the rebate.
I would have gone for it *if* the 1 Gig flash drive advertised
in the flyer had not deceptively neglected the reduced cost didn't take
into account the rebate.
I know lots of people get sucked in this way but I am not one of them.
Salesmen have lost quite a few sales to me over past years due t these
practices.

On average I suppose they do come out ahead on those determined to spend out of

compulsion.
 
 WC> The external USB hard drive case I did buy as it was discounted.
 WC> I/O Magic with the cable included.

 MK> I have one like that as well as one with usb and sata connections for a
 MK> sata drive.  That one works excellent but it cost a bit more.  Also
 MK> have just straight cables without cases which work pretty good so far.
 MK> I had problems with one and the dealer took it back.

They get a good price on this boxes as there's so little to them.
Interface circuit amounts to a parallel - serial shift register I gather,
nothing much more. 

 WC> Ya got me.
 WC> Lots more stuff there for sure however it lacked iptables as it was
 WC> Slack 10.2
 WC> which is a huge drawback to my firewall strategy.

 MK> I am pretty sure 10.2 came with iptables.

The firewall script Martin Atkins provided that works so well in Debian 
fails on an error for every instance iptables is invoked from that script.
I tried altering the path.
iptables -L -n returnes no command.

 WC> Older Kernel as well.
 WC> Perhaps Debian has advanced since last you looked at it?
 WC> Really wasn't all that different.

 MK> Big difference if you're into building your own stuff and don't want to
 MK> be bothered with deb packages and all that stuff.  Far less hassel in
 MK> the long run not worrying about that stuff.  I am not a distributor so
 MK> rpm's and deb's are a waste of time.  I prefer everything in tar and
 MK> gzip or bzip2 format. 
 
Well essentially and in principle I agree with you on all these points however
in my current circumstances I must make allowences for those circumstances.
IOWs the need to get something accomplished supercedes sometimes the desire
to do it in the cleanest possible manner.
 
 MK> This way anything I create is compatible with
 MK> many more systems then either Debian or RedHat (or whatever they call
 MK> themselves these daze).

 I like standards myself.
 What is it, the posix standard to which Linux rigidly adheres?

 WC> One thing I had noted about Slack 10.2 is it had a GUI bootloader
 WC> construction
 WC> tool
 WC> with a diagnostic before you commit.
 WC> Oh, well, once more by the manual method.

 MK> Right.  It can be done on others too but I forget offhand how.  I
 MK> ALWAYS do it the manual way as far too often automagic thingies don't
 MK> get something right.

You may recall my not employing modprobe for just such a concern on my sound
card.
Linux is just too powerful to try stuff willy nilly.
Ask me about the time when I did this: cp -a dosfile.txt /dev/hda 
instead of cp -a dosfile.txt /mnt after first mounting hda1

Attempting to copy the file to a DOS windows first partition Linux obediently
copied the file right over the boot sector and FAT.

 WC>  Well my goal was a test of both the CPU load and monitor resolution
 WC>  as I didn't know for certain it would support 1280x1024

 MK> They usually do.  I was running at that resolution even on the console
 MK> but prefer 1024x768 anyhow.  Also I can change on the fly with a
 MK> Matrox.  ;-)

 MK> I hear ya!  My nearest neighbour is far enough away that it isn't any
 MK> bother for either of us.

All I want now the dog is gone is to be left alone, seems that's too much to
ask.
People upstairs are real section 8 housing types.
That's U.S. speak for government subsidized housing.
Not sure you know what I mean.
Landlady seems superficially very likable however has this serious passive 
aggressive thing going on where she attacks people then complains she's the
injured party
and "why do people use me?"

On that point I owe James Bradley an apology as well as in an email I kinda
lumped him in along with my christain landlady who jacked the rent 235.
With the insane increase, my cognitive decline and attending  mental decline
and attendent loss of temper control I unititentionally lashed out.
IOW's I lost it yestersday.

Anyway to James Bradley, sorry for the rant I inadvertantly directed at you.
I kinda see in black and white sometimes these days with no shades of grey.
Email apology on the way as well later as able.

Well, six AM, just woke up and can';t decide on whether to make coffee
or take a nap.
Oh my, that bodes ill for this day<g>

 WC> My experiment was more aimed at testing hardware limits and checking
 WC> out HD
 WC> firsthand.

 MK> Good idea.

 Random stuff does occur.


 WC> Snow?
 WC> ISTR that stuff from many moons ago.

 MK> Same here.  It seems to have stopped but it is supposed to get colder.
 MK> Can't win for trying.

Hey, that's my line.
 
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