Reading old posts to pass the time...

[psych-major]

I just went back and read my first several posts. Wow, what a n00b I was!

The moral is, we were all n00bies once, and now that we're seasoned pros, it pays to remember where we cam from in order to better help n00bs as they come along.

Also, to those of you who are n00bs, take heart. With a lot of reading and some trial & error, it won't take long to hone those 'nix skills!

[cybertron]

I don't know about you, but I'm still a n00b.:)

[psych-major]

Well yes, we all are, relatively speaking. But you know what I mean!

[JayMan8081]

Yeah it is fun sometimes to go back and read some of my old posts. It interesting to see where I am now in comparison to where I started and how daunting it all seemed then. :)

[Parcival]

Yeah, my first post back in the old days was on how to install the nvidia driver. A newbie classic. :)

[dlausevic]

I know I'm a permanewb.

[JayMan8081]

Yeah, my first post back in the old days was on how to install the nvidia driver. A newbie classic. :)
Yeah I think that is about the first thing any new linux user tries to get working. At least the first time I installed I was using nvidia and not ati. ;) If it had been ATI then it would have been even harder!

[timothykaine]

In my first thread I wanted a program that used Gnome dependencies but I thought I couldnt use it from within KDE. heh

[Seph64]

In my first post, I thought to correct a problem, I'd have to reinstall the Linux OS I was using at the time. But the Windows "to fix, reinstall" mentality surely went away fast as I used Linux more. :) And I still consider myself to be a newbie. But I am trying my best to learn Linux. And I believe I finally reached the point in my life where I no longer need Windows. So the only thing I have on this computer right now is Gentoo's flavor of Linux.

[Gogeta_44]

I really had it bad (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126141).
Surprising how long ago that was and how badly I posted compared to now.
Anyone else willing to embarrass themselves? :rolleyes:

[cybertron]

Heh, that thread got kind of out of hand didn't it?:)

I just had another n00b moment when I was looking into why my backup drive was getting so full. It's a 160 backing up a 74 and 80 that are nowhere near full, and yet it was up to 82% full. I figured it was because I still had all of the old Myth recordings that I had deleted off of the main drive on there, but when I went to delete some of them I got a surprise: Two copies of everything from my 55 gig Multimedia partition. One in the root of the backup drive, the other one off in a subdirectory. Evidently one was left over from when I first got the drive and hadn't writen my backup script yet.

I deleted the extra copies and all of the Myth recordings and the disk usage went down to 29%. I'm re-backing up Myth now, so we'll see how much space it takes after that.

I think I need to learn to use rsync to do backups.:)

[soulestream]

To slack or not to slack (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133985)

Guess I figured that out ;)

I also had forgotten about that job, which I didnt take, btw..

soule

[Choozo]

Can't even find my first post, but I suspect it was about the long dead Gentus distro - and about compiling a kernel with ISDN support? :p

[Sepero]

If I close my eyes and try really hard, I can remember a little samari penguin and a site by the name of "linuxnewbie".

EDIT:
I wasn't officially a member then, but I was still helped by its existance.

[Choozo]

If I close my eyes and try really hard, I can remember a little samari penguin and a site by the name of "linuxnewbie".
AKA Sensei :)

[bwkaz]

Ah, yes, linuxnewbie... I still get wistful about that sometimes.

Anyway. My first question post (back when it was LNO) was something with Mandrake and ReiserFS -- apparently Mandrake didn't do initrds (or, come to think of it, maybe I told it not to... hmm), and the ReiserFS module wasn't loaded at boot time, so I was getting kernel panics since it couldn't mount the root FS.

Ah yes, here it is:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31870

And the final, real solution (not the "just make / ext2" one):

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40834

It sure doesn't seem like 4 years...

[psych-major]

My bookmark still points to Linuxnewbie.org... :rolleyes:

[MMYoung]

Linux at Last (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92127)

I was looking at some of my first posts tying to get Slackware up and running and I'm suprised somebody didn't hunt me down and kick my arse.

This has been a real humbling experience, thanks a HECK of a lot! On the other hand I've made a lot of progress in the past 2 1/2 years.

Yep, I'm a noob!

BTW, I've still got that Athlon 1.2 and it's running my Slackware 10.2/Dropline GNOME 2.12.1 build system. :D

Later,
MMYoung