Found on Something Awful (page 4):
When you have waffled silver roller skates, you pretty much have to base the whole outfit around them, and there's really no way to make it tasteful.
Oh, to rip or not to rip. Almost finished the second Latvian sock when I realized that it has two purls between the patterned instep and the stockinette sole where the first has one purl. I've frozen with indecision. Would you rip back?
Last night Sam learned the value of rinsing thoroughly the conditioner from her hair (as this is what can happen when you don't):
HTML links work like this:
The browser reads the code in order. When it sees this:
<
it says, "hey, there's a special command coming up!
When it sees
<A
it says, "hey cool, we're starting some kind of link!"
<A HREF=
means "we're starting a link, and it's an HTML reference (hence HREF)"
<A HREF="http://url/"
means "...and the reference is to the URL in between the quotes.
<A HREF="http://url/">
The end ">" means "we're done telling you where you'll point to. Now everything after the ">" is what we want to "activate" on the page so that when a user clicks on it they'll be directed to the reference. What comes next can be a picture, text, whatever:
<A HREF="http://url/">Click here</A>
"</" is special. It means "stop doing" in HTMLese. In this case, </A> means "stop linking".
Most HTML "tags" (the codes in "<>" brackets) come in pairs. For example, to bold, you surround text in <B>bold word</B> tags.
Never has anyone received a more beautiful bouquet of flowers, and one that keeps you alive even!
Thanks Hoi-en!
PS to the initiated: These are passive protection devices, used in rock climbing. And they rock! And they're pretty... :)
The drama is over, at least for now, and SimplyMEPIS is really, for real, running on the 3110CT!
Pause to breathe! In... out... in... out...
This is all so exciting! Now, of course, I just have to work out how to get the wireless working and reclaim that 1GB of diskspace, and figure out IP printing, and see what happens when I try to boot with the 2.6 kernel, and work out a C development environment for JP, and...
Hooray!
The story so far:
It all looks very, very good for now (although I'm a bit worried about which partition will end up being active, as I now realize I didn't mark the primary Linux partition active). More later.
Definitely the wrong loadlin version... must have zigged when I should have zagged when downloading from debian. Downloaded 1.6c from Hans Lerman's site, and got much further along. Dots... many thing scrolling very quickly, terminating (yes, as in stopping, or even halting) with this (the last two lines are even in red) on the screen:
3w-xxxx: No cards found. raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 211K freed EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Looking for MEPIS Linux........................................................ ............................................................................... ............................................................................... ........................ Can't startup filesystem Halting...
Okay, so not really wars. Many obstacles, though, and a little bit of swearing.
All I'm trying to do is install Linux on a Toshiba Portégé 3110CT. SimplyMEPIS 3.3 was provided by someone much smarter than me, so I thought I'd start there. It seems to be impossible to do anything anymore, though, without a bootable CDROM, which is a feature notably absent from the aforementioned laptop. I have a parallel-port attached CDROM. No can boot. So I bastardized a Win98 boot disk to add support for the parallel CDROM, added loadlin.exe v1.6c, and tried launching MEPIS on the CD (by launching, with the CD as the current drive, "a:\loadlin \boot\vmlinuz2 initrd=/boot.initrd.gz" (as mostly documented here)). Gasp! Excitement! Loading! Dots flowing across the screen! It's all so beautiful. Then the letdown.
invalid compressed format (err=2)-- System halted
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaargh!