JustLinux Anniversaries...

[GnomeProject]

I was just thinking about my One Year anniversay on JustLinux (January 2004) and wondered about everyone else...so cough it up...how long have you participated at this wonderful site??? Thanks!

-Adam

[mdwatts]

Just look at the Registered: date under the username.

[GnomeProject]

I know I just have to look at that, but I thought this might lead to some stimulating posts about what brought everyone here and how much they like linux is all...

-Adam

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by GnomeProject
I know I just have to look at that, but I thought this might lead to some stimulating posts about what brought everyone here and how much they like linux is all...

-Adam

Didn't know you meant that from the question you posted.

I did post this on 'How/What got you started with linux' (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108293&highlight=started) a few months ago here in /dev/random.

[zmerlinz]

i signed up to this forum when i first started with linux :D

and i keep learning more each day.

my first distro was redhat 5.2, but gave that up quickly, and went to mankdrake 5 or 6 ??

but now running three machines, two with gentoo and the other with mandrake 9.2 (for ease of setup)

also it was know as linuxnewbie when i signed up to

[DMR]

Originally posted by zmerlinz
also it was know as linuxnewbie when i signed up to *pulls pin, lobs grenade*

Long live Sensei!

*ducks for cover*

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I joined here because X 3.3.6 didn't support any video card I owned. When I got here, there were two /dev/random-ish forums, one for general talk, and one for socio-religious debates, a soapbox, if you will. After I got all five of the questions I had answered, I fell prey to the flamewars and debates in those forums. I lost sight that this was actually a Linux help forum, not a place to criticise others' beliefs.

But, now there's only /dev/random. With the way it's set up, I feel like I'm even helping others by answering posts in /dev/random!

[zmerlinz]

Originally posted by DMR
*pulls pin, lobs grenade*

Long live Sensei!

*ducks for cover*

yeah sensei was great :D

[DMR]

Originally posted by zmerlinz
yeah sensei was great :D And let us not forget the wise and ancient teachings of the great Sensei:

"A 1:1 ratio of Arby's sauce to Horsey sauce must be maintained."


(If you remeber where that came from, you've been here waaaayyy too long. :D )

[hard candy]

Bon Bon and I started when this was named "JustTypewriters".
OOOO- WEEE, we had some good discussions about which ribbon was best for the typewriter.
And don't get me started on which Liquid Erase was best, one time we must of had 32 posts in 2 days! I still remember my Olivetti fondly. Bon Bon don't remember all that, he had just mastered the pencil by then. :)

[bwkaz]

It was named JustTypewriters in March 2003?

Funny, I don't remember that...

:D

I came here looking for help with a kernel panic that Mandrake was giving me when I formatted the root partition as reiserfs. Whatever version of Mandrake that was (I don't even remember anymore... maybe 7.0 or 7.1?) didn't install an initrd, and didn't build support for reiserfs into its standard kernel (it had ext2 only; everything else was modules). So it got to where the kernel would mount the root FS, and the kernel would panic because it didn't understand the FS layout.

Unfortunately, I don't think I saw much of Sensei. I do remember when he was let go, but I think I came here after the forum was actually sold.

I have a copy of the mirror of the last No Topic thread (before the Topic: No Topic one whose first post was "Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Dept.", which was destroyed when /dev/random became not entirely random) sitting around somewhere. This copy is in pretty much the state that the original thread was in shortly before it crashed UBB and a bunch of people lost their accounts.

I must say, vBulletin is a bit more robust. I mean, we don't have any huge long topics anymore, but the Topic: No Topic thread was quite a bit longer than the just plain No Topic one before it got axed. Never caused a board crash.

Anybody remember 11000?

</nostalgia mode>

[MkIII_Supra]

Sensei ran the show and Linuxgirl was his back-up. I remember when I had time to really get into Linux and learn the nutz and boltz. I remember when I had fun with Linux.

Now I don't have time to get into it like I did. Now it has to work period, install and go. Hence my latest frustrations with Linux... again! Simple things in Windows I still have yet to do with Linux... Web Chat, I have tried since 1999... got a connection to one member in 2001 but he / she couldn't see me, couldn't connect to my machine / web cam, then I moved and interest ceased. Now in 2004 I need to web conference, and still even with Gnome Meeting I cannot connect to anybody....

Palm pilot, Linux sees the palm but the WM or the App crashes when I try to connect. So I have given up for now. No time to read and filter through a bunch of config files only to find that it still doesn't work.

Hmmmm otherwise Linux seems to work okay for my base needs, and finally after almost 5 years, I have wine working so I can run MS Office, although slowly! I had to buy Winerack from SuSE for my SuSE 9.0 Pro (only way to get wine to work!) but now VMWare will start to install various apps <I>(finally got it to install and run in SuSE!! Only took over a year and 2 revision changes for both apps!)</I> but crashes halfway through the new OS install. I have written VMWare and the response I got was bad hardware.... I am not buying it since it's a 100% brand new system.

What ever, I have to get back to work now, I have spent to much time here.... I check in occassionally to see WTF and see if I can find answers to my questions....

Sept 1999!

[root.veg]

blimey... I'm not far off my official three-year LNO, erm, JustLinux anniversary. And I've been lurking here since I was at university and didn't have my own computer - so I reckon I've been reading all your helpful answers since about 4 years ago...

Without linuxnewbie.org , I would not have:
(a) a nice, cheap second--hand computer (you guys helped me realise you don't need the latest-and-greatest hardware to get stuff done)
(b) the information I needed to do my first Linux install (Turbolinux 6.0 off the front of a magazine!)
(c) the enlightenment resulting from the One True Path of Debian. Oops - did I say that out loud? *ducks to avoid crossfire*

My only disappointment is that I can't answer more questions. I check here pretty much every day, but I make sure I only answer if I'm sure of myself (which isn't that often, as my post-count shows!).

[mrBen]

I think you'll find the 1:1 ratio quote is still in XStrike's sig.

I joined just after I started at IBM, having been fiddling with Linux on and off for about a year.

Without JLC/LNO I wouldn't have:

1. Got a copy of Just for Fun (thanks cheeky_zombie/zombix)
2. Become a mod :)
3. Have a Debian only computer at home (probably)
4. Know half as much stuff as I do about Linux