On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>>>unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in
>>>>du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on
>>>>/dev/hdd, a
>>>
>>>That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find
>>>it imaginable that /var would be < 500MB, my /var is < 300MB. And
>>>on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though
>>>it tends to come back).
>>>
>>># df
>>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>>/dev/hda5 7633264 6147620 1097896 85% /
>>>/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
>>
>> 7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a
>> shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in
>> some folders just to speed the agent up a bit.
>
>That's a good idea. I have all cache turned off in my web browser.
>
>> And what are you using /dev/hda1 & 2 for, windoze?
>>
>> tsk tsk...
>
>WinXP. Since you didn't put a smiley there, I'll take that as
>a pejorative comment on my judgement.
Not that condeming. The friend I refer to below is also the IT manager
at the tv station where I was Chief Engineer since 1984 & still
somewhat involved with it, they never really let you retire when you
know where all the bodies are buried :), has more than once made the
comment that he uses whatever gets the job done quickest & best, and
that sometimes windows is best. So while I won't touch it with a 20
foot fiberglass pole, I do know that linux isn't the only thing around
in the outside world.
>I don't recall asking
>your permission to decide what to run on my own machine.
>Since I bought this machine in order to do a contract for
>some people, which involved supporting a product on SCO,
>Linux, and Windows, I thought putting on the machine what
>they requested was a good idea. They wanted WinXP, and
>FC2, which is why I run FC2.
Running FC2 here, and yes, it did take a while to exise all the warts.
Its thoroughly broken according to the package managers, but its funny,
everything I want to use every day works flawlessly. Azureus has me
whupped though. BitTorrent works great though, go figure.
>Personally, I wouldn't have
>chosen any of the Fedora Project stuff for my own use,
>but that's what they wanted, so that's what I installed.
>I'd probably use Debian if it were just for me.
>
>When you're ready to pay me at the same rate
>they were, I'll put on it what you want.
Chuckle, that did raise the hackles, didn't it? :) I probably should
have put a smiley on it, but I thought the 'tsk tsk' carried a similar
notation. Sorry.
>>>Not everyone can afford hundreds of Gigs of disc space.
>>>If disc is so cheap, will you buy me a new, larger drive?
>>
>> See above, hda1 and hda2 probably have more than enough space to
>> play in. And lots of shops may have used 20's to 40's laying
>> around, available for a $20 bill. I'm not rich by any means, I'm 71
>> & almost retired, on SS, but that doesn't mean I'd starve if I
>> bought another $120 300GB drive yet today.
>
>Well, I'm a laid off telecom engineer who doesn't have a job.
>I've looked around for just the discs you mention, and used
>40Gig goes for about $50 here. I can get a new one for just
>about the same price. YMMV
I'd say. I have a friend doing some of that in a shop in the next town
up the interstate from me, I'll ask him what the going rate is at his
place tonight. The $20 bill was a SWAG of course.
What was your major (if you have a degree, I don't, 8th grade, self
taught from there, I have a C.E.T. and what used to be a first phone
and I have been involved in some interesting things over the years you
may hear about if you stick around long enough, but I also know that
won't buy *you* a cuppa.) and where do you want to apply yourself next?
Sometimes makeing a little noise might generate a lead or 2.
>Mike
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Cheers, Gene
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