rager-ohio
August 8th, 2017, 03:36 AM
. gone and back again.
Great to be here, greg from ohio, Northfield Village specifically
State of "stuff", listening to TOOL, smoking a rollup (Bugler) and happy as a clam to be running Ubuntu Mate v. 16 -something on my Dell 4600i w/ 3 Gb of ram and an Nvidia vid card. Co installed with my old buggy XP Pro install of 10 yrs. On a 250 Gb sata hdd. And a separate PCI sound card. Something decent, I fergit the exact card.
I have had recent health issues, hypertension. Which has knocked the heck out of me. Parked my K1300GT beemer a ago week ago Sat, And have difficult time touch typing, for now. I will be getting better. I'm not interested in invoking any deities, WE are all that. I still very thankful to be alive for the 67 years I have.
I have been online since 1998. And after the Web, found Usenet. Which google effectively destroyed. Along with DejaVu and a bunch of other archive services. 24hoursupporthelpdesk was my hangout, last handle was Sano. I also lurked and after figuring out how to "wave the chicken" posted to the two main admin ngs (also), Mostly lurked. Had some memorable posts / conversations there - (a couple anyway). Clowns inhabit every niche of the Internet. I got slapped a couple of times.
In any event I must congratulate the Ubuntu community for the Mate flavor of this OS. Installation was flawless on this old box and I will try to help this place as best I can.
I've fooled with Ubuntu, many flavors of *nix, puppy mint and on and on- and have also tried out BSD, I felt I desperately needed an OS I could feel confident didn't have the malware attractiveness of Windows. I started with w95, filled a lent machine w/ junk and dialers and returned it 3 months later. Bought an eMachine with a 333 mhz P2 (I think) good mobo, ran that for many yrs in various 2nd machine uses. Data recovery and testing. The power supply blew after 3 months and I delved into comp repair. Built a few machines after that and have settled on refurbed Dells and all their cutsie hardware foibles. The clowns. I never blew a mobo because of their proclivity for flipping industry std wiring though.
And I like my Jim Beam.
greg
*** I have login for the Ubuntu-Mate.org forum when I installed. Whaa? Maybe a tempest in a teacup.
Great to be here, greg from ohio, Northfield Village specifically
State of "stuff", listening to TOOL, smoking a rollup (Bugler) and happy as a clam to be running Ubuntu Mate v. 16 -something on my Dell 4600i w/ 3 Gb of ram and an Nvidia vid card. Co installed with my old buggy XP Pro install of 10 yrs. On a 250 Gb sata hdd. And a separate PCI sound card. Something decent, I fergit the exact card.
I have had recent health issues, hypertension. Which has knocked the heck out of me. Parked my K1300GT beemer a ago week ago Sat, And have difficult time touch typing, for now. I will be getting better. I'm not interested in invoking any deities, WE are all that. I still very thankful to be alive for the 67 years I have.
I have been online since 1998. And after the Web, found Usenet. Which google effectively destroyed. Along with DejaVu and a bunch of other archive services. 24hoursupporthelpdesk was my hangout, last handle was Sano. I also lurked and after figuring out how to "wave the chicken" posted to the two main admin ngs (also), Mostly lurked. Had some memorable posts / conversations there - (a couple anyway). Clowns inhabit every niche of the Internet. I got slapped a couple of times.
In any event I must congratulate the Ubuntu community for the Mate flavor of this OS. Installation was flawless on this old box and I will try to help this place as best I can.
I've fooled with Ubuntu, many flavors of *nix, puppy mint and on and on- and have also tried out BSD, I felt I desperately needed an OS I could feel confident didn't have the malware attractiveness of Windows. I started with w95, filled a lent machine w/ junk and dialers and returned it 3 months later. Bought an eMachine with a 333 mhz P2 (I think) good mobo, ran that for many yrs in various 2nd machine uses. Data recovery and testing. The power supply blew after 3 months and I delved into comp repair. Built a few machines after that and have settled on refurbed Dells and all their cutsie hardware foibles. The clowns. I never blew a mobo because of their proclivity for flipping industry std wiring though.
And I like my Jim Beam.
greg
*** I have login for the Ubuntu-Mate.org forum when I installed. Whaa? Maybe a tempest in a teacup.