Get up early, break a laptop.

[pphaneuf]

Saturday morning, we went to check out free furniture at azrhey's workplace, as they are redecorating. We ended up mostly waiting in the lobby of their building, standing in line, early in the morning. When we finally entered, there wasn't anything of interest after all, but still helped out one of her co-worker get some stuff, so it wasn't really wasted. I didn't have too high expectations anyway, more of a "if I find something, that's cool". Meh. Went back to bed, because, you know, sleep is good!

It had been a few times that azrhey mentioned she wanted to have someone adept at these things install Linux on her laptop, so I figured I could give it a whirl that evening, watching television idly and stuff. That didn't work out too well (if you're interested, I wrote about it in my other diary). In short, I just about turned her laptop into an expensive paperweight. As it was getting late, decided to go to sleep and work on this the next day, refreshed.

Comments

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I don't like Grub. LILO is small and stupid. Grub is big and stupid. When Grub screws up, it's more likely to mangle something useful on your MBR. Well, if you can call Windows "useful". But since the main advantage of Grub (AFAIK) is that you don't have to re-run it when you change your kernel, and since LILO runs automatically for me when I install a new kernel, I don't think I'll ever bother with it unless I have to.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Well, when it's actually installed right (which I think might be all related, as LILO wouldn't install right either), GRUB can save your arse when you've screwed up. You get more flexibility to hack up something to unscrew yourself.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

I use LILO, because:
-GRUB crashed
-LILO is LInux LOader. That is all I need.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

Adept? You?


*falls off chair laughing*


Punchline?


*waits*

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Hehe, maybe you're right, with the result I had!

Let's say that while I'm an adept of these things, it doesn't mean I'm competent. :-)

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

skilled vs. capable... tough call.

*eyeroll*

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

speaking of skilled & capable,

Financial comtributions can be made towards web-site creation by the end of the month, perhaps we could schedule some time to work on that? Got some free week-days coming up soon.