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Yay for Linux!
2004-04-11, 4:48 PM #1
So I finally got Linux to work. . .and I'm posting from it now. Slackware 9.0. Eh, I like it at least. Not quite ready to get rid of Windows for good though.

Any tips GBK? :-D

Oh, and how do I get my dumb mouse wheel to work? lol

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I think everyone should have to take a test to determine their eligibility to have children. If they failed, they'd be fixed. We'd have fewer stupid people that way.
2004-04-11, 4:49 PM #2
LInux iS so C001!!!

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2004-04-11, 4:51 PM #3
[http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030630l.gif]

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Yeah, how's this for odd? My parents haven't been the least bit interested in my love-life my entire life, and now that prom is soon my Dad all of a sudden seems concerned that if I don't find a date and go it will mean I'm a social failure.
I don't get it... I accepted that fact a long time ago, why is he just now realizing it?
- Correction
2004-04-11, 4:52 PM #4
hahahahhaaa

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2004-04-11, 4:53 PM #5
Tips? Shut down every daemon you dont need.


Youll problably have to manually edit your Xconfig file to get your mouse to work . . . thats the price you pay for running Slackware instead of a heavier distro... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-04-11, 4:55 PM #6
<3 Insipid

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-04-11, 5:00 PM #7
Only the third PA I've ever actually laughed at. Funny [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-04-11, 5:01 PM #8
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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Yeah, how's this for odd? My parents haven't been the least bit interested in my love-life my entire life, and now that prom is soon my Dad all of a sudden seems concerned that if I don't find a date and go it will mean I'm a social failure.
I don't get it... I accepted that fact a long time ago, why is he just now realizing it?
- Correction
2004-04-11, 5:12 PM #9
Really, I just wanted an excuse to start posting again. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

And I <3 that PA. . . [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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I think everyone should have to take a test to determine their eligibility to have children. If they failed, they'd be fixed. We'd have fewer stupid people that way.
2004-04-11, 6:28 PM #10
OMFG!! I can't type that PA was so funny!

SAVE!!

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2004-04-11, 11:22 PM #11
The mouse wheel thing depends on your X configuration file. You should look at the slack docs, because it varies by distro where the file is. You basically just have to change the mouse protocol. GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND. Oh, and if you bothered with a real distro, it would have worked automatically [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif] Actually, that's not true - I read that it's impossible to auto-detect a scroll wheel [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-04-12, 2:35 AM #12
Can't... stop... laughing!

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis
2004-04-12, 2:52 AM #13
It's usually the same thing, but I know the slackware docs tell you how to fix the mousewheel. It's the #1 most asked Linux newbie question. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-04-12, 5:21 AM #14
RH7 through 9 and Fedora all had it working.

btw, I'm switching from Fedora. I can't really put my finger on it, but I don't like it.

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babble, babble, b!tch, b!tch, rebel, rebel, party, party.
2004-04-12, 7:12 AM #15
[http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/images/linux.jpg]

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I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally

[This message has been edited by The Master Yoda (edited April 12, 2004).]
I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

You know to be politically correct we really should kill the women and the minorities first...
2004-04-12, 8:24 AM #16
<3

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2004-04-12, 8:58 AM #17
I wish that was better photoshopped though...

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2004-04-12, 10:22 AM #18
For mouse wheel:
Open your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4, whichever one you have), and in your mouse section, add the line:
Code: 
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

You'll have to restart X to get it to work, but I think that should do it.
2004-04-12, 7:58 PM #19
Congratulations. Can you pee further yet?

Ever since i switched from Slackware to a bootstrapped compiled-from-stage-1 Gentoo i know /i/ sure can.. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

[This message has been edited by Dormouse (edited April 12, 2004).]
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
2004-04-12, 8:04 PM #20
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dormouse:
Congratulations. Can you pee further yet?

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Sure can. If I keep it up, I could almost hit your car from here. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
2004-04-12, 10:44 PM #21
My X Server won't work. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] I'm running Debian right now. Stupid HP laptops with mobility video cards.

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2004-04-13, 11:40 AM #22
You should use a real OS, like Windows.

...wait, no, you can do whatever you want. Sorry, I forgot for a second that I'm not a jackass who hijacks threads about operating systems I don't like.
2004-04-13, 3:36 PM #23
Alpha1 says: "I need to save the PA strip"

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