More rants....

• PXE boot: Dang it. Now I don't even need a cdrom drive...What a crock.
• Documentation. There's too much. Who needs to know HOW-TO....

Never mind. I do....lol

LMAO
I'm also a trucker and get a lot of the dumb questions too.

I loved Eric's comment to me awhile ago:
How do I have the time?

You know the answer to that one...

Wilson, I see that you're using the truckstop WiFi services. Flying Hook?

I finally got tired of only being to get online at trucktops and broke down and bought a Cingular card. It was pretty easy to get configured and working in Slack (Damn you Pat! It's just too easy!).

As I pull step decks and RGNs I don't spend too much time sitting around waiting to be loaded or unloaded but it's nice to be able to get online at those times when I am wiating. I do a lot of military stuff and it's good to get online while sitting on a base waiting for them to do their thing.

I do a lot of oversized loads so have a lot of free time now that it gets dark so early.

How long you been using Linux? Over 10 years for me (I used to work as an engineer before giving up for trucking).

Got CommData..So no hook. Mostly Sirricom (Loves/Pilot) and IdleAire

Long story on cellcard...Short answer too much $

Tryin to get the hardware to get a better signal in here.

Slack is great, hardware is the bugger...lol

Yeah I use CommData too.

As far as the cellcard goes, quit pulling that cheap freight. LOL

j/k

I understand. It is a hefty expense but worth it to me.

You on the road now? I've been home since Monday afternoon. I typically run 3 weeks and take a week off. My choice. I just don't see any point in going home for just a day or two, but then I live alone so don't have a family waiting for me like you do.

Who you drive for, if you don't mind asking? If you do mind, I understand. Anonymity and all that.

Actually, it's high dollar freight that's the reason I will not say the company....

You know, another thing about Slackware, it's kind of, well.... boring. There's really nothing to do in this distro.

For example:

Today, I had 2 hours to kill, so out of sheer boredome, I booted up my trusty Windows XP, as I know I can really kill some time there, lol. So after a few hours I was able to do a checkdisk, defrag, 4 antispware scans & updates, update my antivirus apps run a virus check, update my windows defender, my crap cleaner, and update windows & office!

Thanks M$

Note: on a serious note it was funny to see "your MS defender definitions are more than 90 days old..." hahahaha

You want to have real fun?

I installed wine once (forgot what version) and winetools, and setup everything,including IE...

2nd time I ran IE, it went to MS's update site.

So I thought "Sure. Why not?"

I updated my "Windows" install....lol. 8 TIMES! Never got it right....lmao

Tenacious little bugger tho. Gotta give it that. Was gonna try to make my laptop Win2000 or else!!

It drives me crazy that Slackware never freezes, has killer up-time, and is perfectly stable. Everything works, all of the time.
Once in awhile I start lusting after another OS, start downloading it, only to realize that it won't function as well as Slack.
My life is hell:-)

This... is... hilarious! I mean, really, who would EVER want to use such a polished, stable OS? I can just hear Owen Wilson's "Ohhh, come on!" when I say that I've gone for nearly 2 weeks without a single irrecoverable crash! Wait, without a single crash!

Except for a hardware failure, my webserver has been up for 1yr,11months...(Upgraded to 11 at the same time I replaced the hardware)

How can I justify 'upgrades' when the darn thing keeps working?

I can never manage an uptime longer than 15 hours. I get a constant and random X crash (X goes back with three very thin lines of random color vertically on the screen) anywhere from 1 minute after X comes up to 15 hours later.

Then again, this may be my fault, as I specified in the X configuration that I had 16MB of VRAM whereas the boot sequence only finds 4MB of dedicated VRAM. The card's an Intel i810, if that helps.

Anyone got any input on this?

The only time Slackware has ever crashed has fallen into one of two categories in all the 7 times it happened.

Category one: Recoverable stupidity such as removing hardware when I know damn well I shouldn't or not editing a file I know I should have edited in some process.

Category two: Purposely pushing my limits such as removing that same piece of hardware thinking that I've fixed a problem. When I "push the limits" I'm either trying to learn something or seeing what I can do and how far I can do it until something breaks.

All the times Slackware ever crashed on me share the very same basic characteristics that can be summarized in one sentence. Slackware crashed because I did something that I shouldn't have been doing.

There are a few things, however, that cause the OS to crash but I know that it has nothing to do with Slackware itself but the kernel. My laptop is almost 5 years old and ACPI is iffy so when I close my lid X will crash. I have to be careful not to close it by accident or put it in a situation where it can be closed. And with recent kernels past 2.6.18.3 (most irratating is 2.6.19 because it has to be recompiled every time this happens) if I remove my PCMCIA wifi card the kernel will panic and freeze.

None of that is Slackware's fault though...

I agree. I'm my own worst virus....

My lappy is about the same age as yours, but no acpi issues at all.

But it is my "experimental" box, so I keep Slackware install cds and dvds with me.

But my other boxes get the 'working' tweaks I do on this thing.

More of R&D than anything...