from Dallas, Texas! http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/i..._lq/icon14.gif

For those not in the know, 'ya'll' sounds like 'yawl', and is a short form of you all, 'ya all' http://linuxquestions.cachefly.net/i...ilies/read.gif )

I'm not exactly a newbie, I've used Linux quite often through the years (and using different distros) but I've not yet learned enough about it to be able to install programs using, say a compression program or how to configure a script to install a program or configure hardware using scripts.

I've switched between Windows (different versons), and Linux throughout the years. I prefer Linux to Windows as Linux, in my experience, is more stable than Windows. I've also used OS/2 (older versions) and DOS (MS-DOS and FreeDOS).

See ya'll,
QBall2U

Welcome aboard.

It always amuses me that people faking Southern accents in movies or TV often say "you all" instead of "y'all". Apparently its a little difficult for them to get the idea this can be a contraction.

Luckily there are books on how to speak "Southern".

Djeet = Did you eat?
Nawdjew = No, did you?

Howdy neighbor!

You are _so_ right!

Something truly funny just popped into my head when I read your post, my mom, my next-to-older sister and I are the only true-blood 'Texans' in our family but when we moved up to South Dakota when I was 9 yrs old, my _older_ sister's southern drawl became SO thick, even _we_ could not understand her!

QBall

Good lawd.

Or for a little more authenticity: "Lawd have MER-cy!"

I have used this a time or two. . . maybe three.

But welcome, welcome to you, QBall2U!

(Oldham, Lancashire, North-West English accent)
Heyup, lad! Art oreet?
Regional accents are great, eh?
Y'all er welcome!

The last, in Texas southern drawl, would sound more like:

yawl ah whale-cum!'

(no pun intended about whales ;D)

QBall

I might as well jump in on this.

'wachdis' watch this

Most people know most things coming from Texas are bigger and better.

Including the cockroaches. (Not sure bigger is better in this case though.)

When I lived in Houston it was well known that stepping on roaches only served to annoy them.

I will agree, some of those Palmetto's are big enough to ride and resistant to most bug sprays.

Well, I lived in Dallas and the 'roaches there weren't bigger OR better ... these must have been Yankee(JK) 'roaches transplanted down there as you could squish these flat with just a fart! (you could burn them, if you lit the fart ;D ... probably some would just grab their thorax and gasp out their last breathe! (I bet the ones in Houston would just die laughing at that! lol)

I remember the ones in Houston ... I was born in Houston. These WERE bigger and 'badder'! I remember in the middle of the night going to the frig for a glass of ice tea and turning on the light in the kitchen, a million 'roaches an inch or so in length scattering for every corner of the room! If some weren't fast enough to scatter and I stepped on them, they DIDN'T die! They'd just continue on their way after I took my foot off of them ... of course, I was only a little tad pole of 5 years to 9 years old; I couldn't have weighed very much, then! BUT, if I tried stomping on them, they would kind of act a bit stunned (probably laughing at me, come to think of it lol) and then continue scrambling away!

You haven't lived until you see a roach wearing a chef's apron and handing you your barbeque tools, and two more drinking your beer.

*G*

How's that for a pre-bedtime story?

LOL

THAT sounds like a TV commercial!
Maybe someone ought to pass it along...maybe for a 'pest control' advertisement?

QBall