Linux on my laptop - The Saga Continues So I downloaded the ISO, burned it and installed it. Ahh...so I thought. Turns out I skipped a very important terminal emulator something or other and I could not log on as root. OK, so I'm in the middle of re-doing it again. And then I'm thinking -- I used to do this for a living, so what happened? Why does it feel like everything comes so difficult? I've been making minor mistakes all this week.

I'll give you an example: I'm trying to get this guy's laptop on the network. For some strange reason the DHCP server is playing possum. OK, I'll fix that...I put in a static IP address, just a few notches away from the IP's we assigned just a day ago!!! But no, instead of 192 I type 195. WTF?!?! I have never used 195 for anything! It's not even close to being right! The 5 is so far away from the 2 that there is no way I made a simple typo. And don't even get me started on the 0 instead of 1! *sigh*

I had to take a quick break and install the touchpad software, b/c the stupid cursor kept moving away from where i typed..

Anyway...where was I? Oh yeah, Linux.

TBC  ¶ 11:26 PM