12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 07/09/2013 02:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 July 2013 14:15:50 Dave Woyciesjes did opine:
>
>> On 07/09/2013 01:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:19:35 Dave Woyciesjes did opine:
>>>> On 07/09/2013 12:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> Can you pop up a bash shell with the ctrl-alt-t combo?  That is at
>>>>> least as handy as bottled beer.
>>>>>
>>>> 	Yep. Or whack the Windows key, type term, then choose between
>>>
>>> Terminal,
>>>
>>>> UXTerm, or XTerm. :)
>>>
>>> The 'windows key'.  Humm, by golly there is something with a w95 flag
>>> on it, just one on this particular keyboard.  AFAIK its not mapped to
>>> do anything though.  But using such a key seems almost like inviting
>>> bad karma on a linux box. :)
>>
>> 	Possibly, but so far this MS Natural Keyboard Pro I've been using
> on
>> Ubuntu has been behaving itself...
>>
>> 	The Windows key is also referred to as the Super key.
>
> Now thats downright blasphemous to a linux user, Dave.

	Maybe, but as you know, use the right tool for the job. The angle at 
which this is split, and rests, is perfect for me. Plus, it's built 
fairly solid & well. Has stood up to a lot. Yes, it's no IBM Model M, 
but it's pretty good.

> Nothing about
> windoze has ever been super for me.  But folks here need to understand that
> I have owned a windows machine for only 6 months or so out of my 35 years
> at carving code to do useful things.  And it had a copy of Mandrake on it
> the next day after I bought it.  The windows install was nothing but a
> source of drivers for the lappies radio, and when I found by running
> windows that even the windows driver for a BCM4318 was broken, and the most
> recent SP2 for XP didn't fix it, I wiped it.  Its got mint 14 on it ATM,
> works well.
>
> My *nix like experience starts with an aftermarket OS for the TRS-80 Color
> Computer, called os9, a mini unix for a machine with 64k of memory.  That
> was my 'teacher' of the unix way of doing things.  I still have one, and
> just this past winter I wrote and published a method of switching how it
> boots up to do different jobs.  There are about as many of us on the coco
> mailing list as there are commie 64 users still around, and next spring we
> will have the 28th annual last cocofest.  Its not dead yet, new hardware
> and capabilities are always popping up.
>
> My windows experience has been limited to configuring the neighbors
> networking when something in the chain dies.  Lighting got their router or
> some such.
>

	Now you're just bragging.... :)

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