On Saturday 03 December 2005 10:35, Bob Dove wrote:
Hi Peter and other members.
I know what FREE means! I'm old enough to be ignored rather than told to go back to school (unless it is the U.S College of Irony)!
Research leads me to believe there is no such age :P
Yes, I'm sure that folks do make a living out of 'Open Source' software as equally other use 'doze to make a living, but what has that to do with a 'FREE' software distribution on a magazine cover. Not only that I also know that folk down load FREE distros from the web and offer them for sale in things like micro mart. I believe I have read notices to the effect that the software is FREE - that is 'no cost' to the end user but the person downloading and offering it to other end user may charge for media used, post and pack &c. Please let me know if I have mis-understood all this 'free' stuff?
Just a little - it's a distinction between free as in beer/free as in speech, the Free Software Foundation and free software are usually talking about free as in speech. Appropriate links to the fsf etc. have been posted so I won't spam you with countless others.
"Fully paid up" as I said was an indication that I have a fully working installation of Linux and I want to learn how to make it as useful to me as 'doze.
As do we all - I'm happy to help facilitate that like most folk - If you've gotten a bad impression as a result of my whittering the other day, then I'm really sorry about that - as mentioned I was having a supremely awful day :)
I haven't seen any postings on this ALUG that any of the members actually want dosh in exchange for their wisdom (not that I understand much of it as yet), though I'm sure not many would refuse a beer if offered in a certain Norwich hostelry! There doesn't seem to be any shortage of irony either! And no doubt in due course I'll be an adept command line typer!
Hey, I think you said you work with QuarkXpress - if so that suggests you have a *way* stronger stomach than you need to plonk the odd few lines in a shell.
(I did a quarkXpress thing at uni and hated the interface of the app myself, although since I'm far from adept at anything, that means little, heh).
As for the USB devices, I'm fighting SuSE 9.2 into behaving itself with odd USB mass-storage devices myself at the moment. Argggh! (helpful, eh?)
Cheers,
Ten.