iPod Nano

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:31:23PM -0500, Craig Routledge wrote:
> Yeah, it's even better than the half-an-hour I spent trying to get X to 
> compile before realising that I had installed binary packages.  That was 
> the first program I ever tried to compile in C and under UNIX.  Good 
> choice, huh?  After that, I hit the books and managed to calculate my 
> monitor's scan line timings successfully after triple-checking the results. 
> That was the only thing that really worried me because I knew I could 
> actually destroy the hardware.

I remember manually calculating modelines with a calculator and spec
sheet.  Nice not to have to do that anymore.

> I learned alot in my early Linux days by doing strange and dangerous things 
> with throwaway installations.  Of course, now that I actually use Linux for 
> all my computing needs, I read the instructions before running new commands 
> as root.  It takes all the horrifying fun out of it.  :^)

Yeah SLS 1.03 was a neat place to start.  I was so impressed that it
worked at all.

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Len Sorensen
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