All I did was have a tiny little peek at the BIOS settings on the new computer, and something went wonky. It was a little frightening to see the new box rendered unbootable for a little while, right at my bedtime, too.
Fortunately, doing a little reading and playing with it some, I figured out how to clear out that invalid signature stuff.
It was a relief to see the operating system come back on the screen. Whew!
There’s a lot on that desktop panel. I only use one panel, so it has to do it all.
All because I had four hours at work on Friday with nothing to do, but still getting paid, and was mad that the Ubuntu Budgie wasn’t as perfect as I’d hoped, I did too much reading and put Manjaro Linux on the new computer once I got home.
It’s HOT! Lovin’ it. If you love Linux, I love you, too. lol. You know who you are. 💋
This is the first time in many years that I have not run Debian, or something Debian based, like some Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
It’s a big, but fun, change for me.
My Linux timeline since 1997: Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware (10 years!), a smattering of BSD’s various Ubuntus, Linux Mint, now Manjaro. Love ’em. There have been a few tawdry flings, like Puppy Linux and Minix.
I admit, it’s a bit of an illness.
I bought some new hardware with an Intel Core i7 12700 Dodeca-Core Processor: 2.1/4.9GHz.
Dodeca. I like the sound of that.
I’m breaking it in with Ubuntu Budgie, lol.
“open in Chrome”
Oh, grow up. I’m just trying to order Chinese takeout, not steer the Space Shuttle.
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When you click unsubscribe and get this failure notice. I guess “extremely sorry” is one of the better sorries. lol
“We are extremely sorry, but we cannot process your request at this time. Please try again later, or return to the email and reply with the word remove in the subject line.”
I had this job in the mid 1990’s where all the computers were running OS/2 Warp, which was a pleasure to use, actually.
That’s back when something called Lotus Notes was used for e-mailing, among other things.
I would make my jaw tighten when someone would say, “I just Lotus Noted you. Did you get it?” “No? I’ll Lotus Note you again, now.”
It would hit my ears like nails on a chalkboard.
Very good times. The Yippie newsletter, The Yipster Times, was my first introduction to phone phreaking as a young preteen, Loved it.
https://wwwHow a Group of ’70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland
I passed by the old building today that used to be the location of the tech store CompUSA.
That was where you could buy things like Netscape Navigator Gold in a box (CD).
Thinking back to when Geocities upped the storage quota to 3 MB. You could avoid using the storage by linking the image library they had.
Also fun: Tripod and NetTaxi.
Best (for me) net chat for awhile: WBS – Webchat Broadcasting System. I still have friendships that originated there.
Favorite blogging community 2003 onward: MyOpera Community. Until Opera browser got sold.
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