please, my fellow developer. You use linux, you love linux, you live and breathe it. I ask you. can we please start using the GUI?

I know hitting tab and typing directly into bash is a fairly simple way of navigation, but seriously, its 2008… can we adopt the mouse now? i really like him, and lets face it. typing out 92,567,823 characters to install a fucking program just isnt quicker than single clicking “setup.exe” admit it. until we overcome this hurdle, the big M$ and the Fruit will always be in the lead. they have adopted usability. so please, my fellow penguins… catch on. its not that hard to do… after all.. the developers of the godforsaken IE did it, it cant be that hard.. quit being elitist assholes and just make linux user friendly. its solid. its fast, it runs, and its secure. we don’t need to continue working on IPv4 TCP/IP packages from 1996. we need to break away from the shell and make this iceberg float, instead of all of us swimming to hold it above water. yes, you can still install Yakuake, and type into shell and type away to your hearts content. but it does NOT need to be the basis of this wonderful OS.

Please listen.

ever fuck up your initrd?

i did…

now, had this been windows, i fucked up some boot module. i have learned alot in the last 24 hours. like, what mkinitrd does. i was screwing around in yast, and decided to change my ide controller to ata_piix from just piix, weeeelllllll…. my laptop didnt like that. when i rebootedit tried to read my root device, and yeah, couldnt yay!

well, i closed it, and didnt deal with it until about 2 hours ago. i started poking around on the internet, kindof in a hopeless wander. see, my laptop’s CDrom doesnt work. its not the device, is something in the connection to the motherboard. so that threw out the idea of slapping in a rescue disk and going strait to bash. no no no, instead i downloaded Knoppix and tried to boot from USB. that didnt work, because my bios wont boot from usb

so, last resort. i popped out the hard drive and slapped it into my old 600e thinkpad. thank god for that guy. i inserted my rescue disk and got into bash. i poked around a bit, mounted hda2 to /tmp and discovered how the hell this boot process works.  im proud of myself, ive never used mkinitrd before, nor did i even know it existed. but after a few attempts and figuring out why “no modules loaded” kept showing up, i got an initrd-032978409327y40-whatever to compile. i added it to grub and voila.. back into my system

i highly suggest to anyone out there that you DO NOT mess with the ide controller, unless you know FOR SURE what youre doing. ignoring those warnings will probably mess up your system.. if it sayd “DONT TOUCH” then dont touch it.

now, had this been windows, i would have given up, kicked the box, and left for some beer. because we ALL know that it wouldnt have been fixed, all my data would have been lost and i would have had to buy a new hard drive. at least thats what geeksquad would say.