[MLUG] suse fun n games

[Tresalizbeth <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hey all,
Decided to give myself a newbie day off and just play, try to relearn 
some commands that I had let get rusty.  Has been good, reconfigured 
hubbys  knoppix hd install so he can play mahjongg and do ebay, read 
email,  he likes linux fine if it lets him do that (wonder how many 
wives can say they reconfigured their husbands knopppix install???  sort 
of like baking a chocolate cake for him).  I am on Suse 9 on my 
computer, miss my debian stable/unstable/testing whatever with knoppix.  
I did manage to get the networking going with knoppix/deb, usually I 
have to reboot but have to fix lilo so rebooting is a pain to say the 
least.  Funny sidelight is wireless keyboard  I got hubby for 
valentines, works fine on debian but wireless mouse just isn't there??  
I just plugged in ye olde usb mouse and it worked fine.  Wireless 
keyboard and mouse are desktop set both work off of same receiver dealy 
(extreme tech jargon for the next it generation,---- dealy-used here to 
mean little black box, not to be  confused with thingamabob).  Never 
even considered wireless issue?  Now I have to figure out why dcopserver 
says it isn't running.
I have been trying to get gimp2 installed, PLEASE don't tell me it's 
precompiled somewhere for Suse, well it is but site is evidently too 
busy for me, so I worked and worked, it's installed but haven't really 
tried it out yet because I'm not happy with yast, seems so white 
bread---windows do it their way or no way, rpm is better but would be so 
neat to have apt get so I just got it all. 
You have to remember all I have done with linux for probably months is 
an occasional boot and installation, been too busy on windows doing 
paperwork etc.  Made up my mind I'm doing linux or at least most of the 
time.
This all started when I wanted to access the help file on gimp and it 
wasn't there, found it for gimp 2 and said hey I just have 1.3.x, I want 
the NEW AND IMPROVED GIMP  even if I can barely resize a picture in the 
old one.
No questions, complaints, or whines, just a good day of not actually 
breaking anything but fixing lots.  Only problem is returning to the 
normal world is always hard after a day of file searches, copying, 
pasting, finding arguments, dependencies, etc.   Did ya ever think it's 
(linux)  just a GIANT jigsaw puzzle we are each putting together to our 
perfect specifications?? (at least for the next 5 minutes till we think 
of something new)  Like a concert pianist and a symphony??  Boy it's 
getting deep now. I"m quitting.
Teresa

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