Those moments when you feel like a tech god...

[MoXplorer]

I am a major noob, it took me 2 weeks to install beryl on my laptop, then i went for a coffee at the local cafe when a group of microsofties noticed my cube spin, they gathered over my shoulders, when i told them it was linux i became tech god.. crashed it 3 days later, it took 20 minutes the second time, automatix was tech god.

[Freston]

I am a major noob, it took me 2 weeks to install beryl on my laptop, then i went for a coffee at the local cafe when a group of microsofties noticed my cube spin, they gathered over my shoulders, when i told them it was linux i became tech god.. crashed it 3 days later, it took 20 minutes the second time, automatix was tech god.

That is so cool

That is the good thing about GNU/Linux. On the one hand you have these great graphics and advanced features, and on the other hand yuo have this mighty powerful command prompt.

I always encountered some major problem installing GNU/Linux. Mostly modem related. Untill I found Slackware. Finaly a distro that understood me *sigh*

At first tarballs just seemed to explode onto my system, leaving the executables unfindable. But I got the hang of it. I had made a list of everything I wanted my computer to be able to do, and I got one thing off the list every day. In three weeks time I had written my first 150 lines of script.

It may not seem like such a big deal, but I was dancing...

[MoXplorer]

I always encountered some major problem installing GNU/Linux. Mostly modem related. Untill I found Slackware. Finaly a distro that understood me *sigh*

I am having quite a few of wlan problems on my kubuntu laptop, if it wasnt for pcmcia I dont think i would have come this far.

I had made a list of everything I wanted my computer to be able to do, and I got one thing off the list every day.

Gonna try the list! Cheers!

[MoXplorer]

My neighbor just asked me if he could send an email from my computer, he's sending his CV so this is a matter of desperation for him, so important that he will only send it from XP. He's afraid that something goes wrong, can't blame him, little does he know!!
So I try logging in but my ISP rejects my entry so I call them up and they say they are having technical problems that should be resolved in an hour. Now he's devastated.
That's when my newly developed instinct kicked in and I thought, hmmm, lets try logging on with Linux, and guess what. I'm online and they are fixing the problem as I write this post.

Linux Rules!!

[netstrider]

Great thread

I sometimes feel like a tech god for the smallest little things. Today I managed to get Beryl and XGL working for the first time ever and I've been trying looong now. Strange thing is I always did things right (I think) but it just never worked but heck i'm so happy now :P

[fingal]

Every time I boot up, I feel like a tech God. Or maybe I have delusions of grandeur? I installed Snort last night and started running it as a daemon. Someone is port scanning me. If I could kick back at them somehow ...