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Subject: Thinking about switching to Linux...

bandolin opened this issue on Dec 20, 2007 · 14 posts


MGD posted Sat, 29 December 2007 at 7:01 PM

I see that bandolin was wondering,

What did you do differently? Did you have to type in the
?member=bandolin manually?

Good question ...

I went to your homepage and then cycled through the various options
(Artist Bio; Artist Input ; Gallery; Store; Contact) until I noticed that on
the "Artist Input" page, part of your Blog showed ... at the bottom of
that, I saw the magic words, "[view all]"

I have a suggestion (Drum Roll) ...

the contact page should have a link to the blog.

/suggestion (Rim Shot!)

In addition, I see that bandolin was worried about,

You're not a Linux guru are you?
Because I could use a hand at getting my internet to work.

No, I'm not here to grade your work [sly grin]. 

OTOH, I did run a SETI farm on about a dozen workstations using
(mostly) linux as the OS.  A SETI farm is similar to a Render farm in
that many machines cooperate to produce a result -- in the case of
a SETI farm it is to perform many calculations for the Berkeley 
SETI at Home Radio Astronomy project

Those workstations of mine have been idle for a while and recently I
have been thinking of refurbishing them into Linux based workstations
and donating them to ... well ... errrrr ... ummm ... whoever would take
them off my hands.  ... So your question does sort of fit into my plans. 

Please send a PM about the symptoms of how linux fails to access the
internet and I'll see what I can do to help. 

--
Martin