Dang you all were lucky! I was put in a burlap sack, with 50 lbs of rocks, tied closed at the top and tossed in the river! Sam. Jay Kline wrote: >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 08:21:51 -0500 >Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> wrote: > > >>Right or wrong, my advice is to dive in head-first. Obviously, keeping >>a Windows machine around is a good safety net, and you'll definately >>need it. But I think the best way to really learn is to force yourself >>to use your Linux machine whenever possible. There will be some pain in >>the beginning, but eventually it will become second nature, and you'll >>cringe at the days when you had to reboot to change an IP address. >> >> > >When I went away to school my first year, I spent the summer getting my >computer dual booting NT and Linux (slackware at the time). For a while, I >went back and forth, but after going 3 months without rebooting, I decided my >NT partition was just wasted space. So, I reformatted the NT partition >ext2 and put something more useful there (aka music) and went another 2 >months uptime before I decided to upgrade the kernel. If you use it every >day, you get used to it really fast. > > > > >>It's just like how dad taught me to swim. Took me fishing and pushed me >>into the lake. Then he took off to his next fishing spot and told me to >>"Suck it up Nancy-boy, you aren't gonna drown." Sometimes I got to rest >>for a couple of minutes before getting thrown back in. Good times, good >>times. >> >> > >Vaguely familiar to my childhood, but I was given heavy bricks at the same >time. Go figure. > >Jay > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list