What are you talking about

Am 04.08.2011 11:40, schrieb Kevin Williams:

I was just trying to boot up my laptop I'm studying computer science
when I get to college next year. so I decided to get to know linux so I
can know something before college and my friend told me out was hard to
listen so I figured I should learn know then later. Now my laptop isn't
booting up to debian and I don't know what I'm doing

You should really read some tutorial for starters or start with some
Desktop with a graphical Desktop enrivonement by default as e.g. Ubuntu,
openSuse or Fedora is offering you.

Cheers
Frank


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On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:40:28 -0500, Kevin Williams wrote:

Are you replying to nobody?

I was just trying to boot up my laptop I'm studying computer science
when I get to college next year. so I decided to get to know linux so I
can know something before college and my friend told me out was hard to
listen so I figured I should learn know then later. Now my laptop isn't
booting up to debian and I don't know what I'm doing

You need to calm down and start doing things in the right manner, with a
minimal order.

Greetings,

Camaleón


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2011/8/4 Kevin Williams

I was just trying to boot up my laptop I'm studying computer science when I
get to college next year.

May be you should consider another career... Surely you can study CS anyway,
but you'll need to teach yourself a lot more... Technology is changing
everyday...

Telecommunications is a lot more stable than CS e even there I studied
analog switches and now I install and see Asterisk everywhere.

so I decided to get to know linux so I can know something before college
and my friend told me out was hard to listen so I figured I should learn
know then later. Now my laptop isn't booting up to debian and I don't know
what I'm doing

Why can't you follow the documentation (howto) like everybody else... you
can even try Ubuntu... My wife's laptop is a Debian one, even my 4 year girl
use it every day and is having a lot of fun.

You may find that the world is more friendly today than was when I started
typing my own games in a storageless TK85... I really loved the MSX and you
can't imagine what having a hard disk has mean to a technology student just
a few years ago... Unix is just great and easy to hack...

Leonardo Ruoso - Jornalista/Desenvolvedor
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Integraçà£o de Software.
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Foos, Perl, Debian Gnu/Linux, Agile, UML, DBA e OOP. Coaching/NLP. Inglês e
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<div>2011/8/4 Kevin Williams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt;</span></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<p>I was just trying to boot up my laptop I&#39;m studying computer science when I get to college next year.</p></blockquote><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">May be you should consider another career... Surely you can study CS anyway, but you&#39;ll need to teach yourself a lot more... Technology is changing everyday... </div>

<div><br></div><div>Telecommunications is a lot more stable than CS e even there I studied analog switches and now I install and see Asterisk everywhere.    </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<p> so I decided to get to know linux so I can know something before college and my friend told me out was hard to listen so I figured I should learn know then later. Now my laptop isn&#39;t booting up to debian and I don&#39;t know what I&#39;m doing</p>



</blockquote></div>Why can&#39;t you follow the documentation (howto) like everybody else... you can even try Ubuntu... My wife&#39;s laptop is a Debian one, even my 4 year girl use it every day and is having a lot of fun. </div>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>You may find that the world is more friendly today than was when I started typing my own games in a storageless TK85... I really loved the MSX and you can&#39;t imagine what having a hard disk has mean to a technology student just a few years ago... Unix is just great and easy to hack...</div>

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<div>Foos, Perl, Debian Gnu/Linux, Agile, UML, DBA e OOP. Coaching/NLP. Inglês e Francês. </div><div><a href="http://leonardo.ruoso.com/" target="_blank">http://leonardo.ruoso.com</a>...nbsp;<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/lruoso" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/lruoso&l...t;/div>

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On Aug 4, 2011 1:04 PM, "Leonardo Ruoso" wrote:

2011/8/4 Kevin Williams

I was just trying to boot up my laptop I'm studying computer science when

I get to college next year.

May be you should consider another career... Surely you can study CS

anyway, but you'll need to teach yourself a lot more... Technology is
changing everyday...

Telecommunications is a lot more stable than CS e even there I studied

analog switches and now I install and see Asterisk everywhere.
I've said that most cs majors can't tell their elbows from well, maybe
they do teach you how to read... maybe.

so I decided to get to know linux so I can know something before college

and my friend told me out was hard to listen so I figured I should learn
know then later. Now my laptop isn't booting up to debian and I don't know
what I'm doing

Why can't you follow the documentation (howto) like everybody else... you

can even try Ubuntu... My wife's laptop is a Debian one, even my 4 year girl
use it every day and is having a lot of fun.

If he's coming from windows, I'd go: mingw, virtualbox, actual install. I
don't think a GUI teaches anyone anything. Otoh, he doesn't have to start on
slackware spending hours learning the XF86Config file to get to a 'decent'
web browser (being Netscape at the time).

There's another side to this though. Computers are a lot like language, the
best way to learn them is to emerge yourself in them and if you don't have a
goal you won't learn very well.

You may find that the world is more friendly today than was when I started

typing my own games in a storageless TK85... I really loved the MSX and you
can't imagine what having a hard disk has mean to a technology student just
a few years ago... Unix is just great and easy to hack...

Hmmm, that might have been a bit before me but I do remember the 8088 and
when they got a hdd and modem for a //e at my school. Good stuff. I also
remember everyone being banned from telnet because someone used it to mess
with the school's email server. How things have changed.


<p><br>
On Aug 4, 2011 1:04 PM, &quot;Leonardo Ruoso&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; 2011/8/4 Kevin Williams &lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; I was just trying to boot up my laptop I&#39;m studying computer science when I get to college next year.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; May be you should consider another career... Surely you can study CS anyway, but you&#39;ll need to teach yourself a lot more... Technology is changing everyday... <br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Telecommunications is a lot more stable than CS e even there I studied analog switches and now I install and see Asterisk everywhere.    <br>
I&#39;ve said that most cs majors can&#39;t tell their elbows from well, maybe they do teach you how to read... maybe. </p>
<p>&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; so I decided to get to know linux so I can know something before college and my friend told me out was hard to listen so I figured I should learn know then later. Now my laptop isn&#39;t booting up to debian and I don&#39;t know what I&#39;m doing<br>

&gt;<br>
&gt; Why can&#39;t you follow the documentation (howto) like everybody else... you can even try Ubuntu... My wife&#39;s laptop is a Debian one, even my 4 year girl use it every day and is having a lot of fun. </p>
<p>If he&#39;s coming from windows, I&#39;d go: mingw, virtualbox, actual install. I don&#39;t think a GUI teaches anyone anything. Otoh, he doesn&#39;t have to start on slackware spending hours learning the XF86Config file to get to a &#39;decent&#39; web browser (being Netscape at the time).</p>

<p>There&#39;s another side to this though. Computers are a lot like language, the best way to learn them is to emerge yourself in them and if you don&#39;t have a goal you won&#39;t learn very well. </p>
<p>&gt;<br>
&gt; You may find that the world is more friendly today than was when I started typing my own games in a storageless TK85... I really loved the MSX and you can&#39;t imagine what having a hard disk has mean to a technology student just a few years ago... Unix is just great and easy to hack...<br>

&gt;</p>
<p>Hmmm, that might have been a bit before me but I do remember the 8088 and when they got a hdd and modem for a //e at my school. Good stuff. I also remember everyone being banned from telnet because someone used it to mess with the school&#39;s email server. How things have changed. <br>

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