[ale] Some days are worse than others (HTML)

Wed Jul 4 10:59:38 EDT 2007

Brian:

Can you please re-send your replies as Plain Text email
or with Plain Text included?

I believe that Plain Text is the requested standard format
for the ALE list in general.

Thanks!

peace
aaron

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 01:17, Dr. Brian J. Dowd wrote:
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> <font size="-1">Have you tried Kubuntu's neat "sudo" command? (I'm
> kidding, of course.)<br>
> enter "sudo yourcommand" at the prompt<br>
> It will ask for the root password.<br>
> Upon successful validation you will be running yourcommand now with
> root privileges.<br>
> You can, if you're still up...<br>
> run <br>
> man visudo<br>
> to learn a lot more about ways around this nonsense...<br>
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> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> <blockquote cite="mid200707040020.10727.drifter at oppositelock.org"
>  type="cite">
>   <pre wrap="">Today has not been a good day.
> It has been an intensely frustrating day.
> 
> With the helpful assistance of James Kinney I finally mastered
> the Fedora Core install routine, only to have it fail and fail and
> fail again when trying to format the drives.  Finally figured out 
> the primary drive is FUBAR -- right out of the box.
> 
> But I continued with my experiments by installing Kubuntu on the
> second drive.  Boy is that a mess.  The entire "root" issue is
> so screwed up I can do nothing with the system.
> I carefully read the instructions and was able to set a root password.
> In the terminal, if I type "su" I am asked for a password and it
> cheerfully takes the new root password I set.
> 
> BUT if I try to run an application from the desktop, such as Adept
> (which handles the repository list) so maybe I can install Mozilla and/or
> Firefox, the damned thing asks for the root password and won't accept it.
> So no way in! But, you say, Kubuntu actually only wants my user password
> in such situations.  Well, no it doesn't. Won't take that password either.
> Want to change the monitor's resolution?  Same problem.
> 
> Want to put a trashcan or a shredder icon on the desktop?  Damned if I
> can figure out how to do it. The Help files are of no use.
> 
> And I am guessing that my display problems are the result of the crappy
> NV driver for the Nvidia card.  Won't give me anything better that 1280X 
> 1024, which is a waste on a 22" display. And forget smooth scrolling. 
> Everything jerks around.  
> 
> So I'm going to bed now.  As Scarlett once said, "Tomorrow is another day."
> 
> Sean
> 
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> Sean
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