Tim:
>> When I was young, we didn't have no computers. We used pencil and
>> paper, and we were grateful. ;-)
Rick Stevens:
> And you probably ate dirt and carpet fuzz as well.
Only when we were lucky.
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
> >>and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
> >When I was young, we didn't have no computers. We used pencil and
> >paper, and we were grateful. ;-)
> A
On 03/27/2014 09:10 AM, Tim issued this missive:
Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
When I was young, we didn't have no computers. We used pencil
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 02:40 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core
> memory
> > and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
>
> When I was young, we didn't have no computers. We use
Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
> and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
When I was young, we didn't have no computers. We used pencil and
paper, and we were grateful. ;-)
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[tim@
On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 22:42 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
>
> > The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where
> > user directories lived. When K&R ran out of room in / for programs, they
> > looked to for a partition that had additional space av
On 26 March 2014 22:42, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> Yes, I recall that the first Unix system I ran, version 5 on a pdp-11/23,
> had two (enormous) 10MB disks, one for the kernel and the other /usr .
Wow.
Well, that's *us* told. Schooled, even.
8-)
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David G. Miller wrote:
> The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where
> user directories lived. When K&R ran out of room in / for programs, they
> looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was
> /usr. Originally programs ended up in /usr/bi
Matthew Miller fedoraproject.org> writes:
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote:
> > > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just
> > > really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have
> > > separate mount options, files
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Howard Howell wrote:
> > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just
> > really needs to be available at boot time. That means you can have
> > separate mount options, filesystems, partition constraints, or whatever.
> > It just
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 07:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote:
> > >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition.
> > > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one
> > > thinking person to change their mind.
> > Thinking perso
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 01:09:12PM +0100, lee wrote:
> > It's important to realize that you *can* have a separate /usr -- it just
> > really needs to be available at boot time.
> The F17 installer wouldn`t let me have it.
Yeah, but F20 installer does. What was the complaint again? :)
>
> > That
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 13:09 +0100, lee wrote:
> > That means you can have separate mount options, filesystems,
> partition
> > constraints, or whatever. It just doesn't work anymore to have it on
> a
> > network share or (if anyone ever did this!) removable media added
> > after initial boot.
>
>
Matthew Miller writes:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote:
>> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition.
>> > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one
>> > thinking person to change their mind.
>> Thinking persons do not need to change their minds
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 08:19:52PM +0100, lee wrote:
> >> /usr belongs on it`s own partition.
> > As if no one has ever said that before, and as if it convinced even one
> > thinking person to change their mind.
> Thinking persons do not need to change their minds about it because they
> realis
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