Re: GRRRR!!!

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:11 -0800, MCT wrote:

> Can it be considered a crime of passion if you kill a loved one for
> breaking your computer??
> 
> The scenario:
> 
> Called up my wife on my break.  She says "just the person I wanted to
> talk to...the computer rebooted, so I need to know what to use for a
> login."  So I helped her login, then I proceeded to ask her "what do
> you mean the computer rebooted?".  I have a linux system, and generally
> it doesn't need rebooting.  She says "well, I was trying to work on
> something and it locked up...nothing would work." (which, for just
> about anything in Linux, if it locks, I can stop the process.  So then
> she says "I tried pushing buttons and nothing would work so I unplugged
> it."
> 
> Not turned off.  Not soft reboot.  Pulled the $*&(@! cord out of the
> wall!!!
> 
> For those who know anything about Linux (Kai, back me up on this...)
> Linux does not particularly like to be turned off in such a
> manner....it considers this to be very rude, and does its best to let
> you know EXACTLY how it feels about this.  Needless to say, over the
> phone, I managed to walk her through (and she is an avid Windows user,
> BTW) getting back to the GUI, where she can open Firefox to get her
> precious hotmail (shudder).  However, when she opens Firefox, she says
> "it can't find Google".  I immediately start hyperventilating, and walk
> her through opening an Eterm window, type ifconfig, and ask her to read
> me the IP address.  As soon as I heard the first octet "172" I quickly
> sat down to avoid falling over from fainting.
> 
> Okay.  So now my net connection did not initialize the way it was
> supposed to.  I ask "during the boot process, did you see all 'green
> OKs'?"  To which she replied "well, there was some red exclamations at
> some point, but I didn't pay attention to what it was."
> 
> At this point, I reminded my wife how much I love her, explained that I
> needed to get back to work, and am now wondering how many hours I will
> be up tonight (after my 8 hours here at work) repairing whatever damage
> she did.
> 
> What has already been a long day is now going to be a long night.
> Before anyone asks, yes, I had a separate account for her (non-root
> priviledges, of course) but for some reason, hers isn't
> working...mm-hmm.  Well, apparently it's time for me to just set up a
> completely separate box...with <cringe> Windows.
> 
> Sorry for the long rant, but I seem to have the most kindred spirits in
> here...nobody else in my RL would have any clue what I'm whining about.


Thats odd. Iget mad all the time and unplug my box. which consists of
freebsd, suse,solaris,and 4 other os's. Anyways i have never had any
problems with getting back in , it just does its normal fsk check at boot
up and fixing any bad blocks, and im back in. What you are describing is a
router connection on that particular box. Meaning that when you plug the
computer back in and reboot it, it needs to be reset from the router to
assign it an internal ip. if not then you have a funky modem and just
meeds to be reset. no biggie really. if you ever need help with something
.. feel free to post with my name in it . ill do what i can. I have been
running freebsd  since 1994 and bsd-Lite before that, as well as most
linux distro's since 96

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