Hi, I know what you mean about apt-get and dpkg. I'm still making mistakes
which cause them to stop working, or start behaving real strange. The good
thing is, I usually don't make the same mistake again! Now, back to trying
to get DHCP working with Comcast at home.
Kenny
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 05:56:30PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> Well, I don't know any programming language, but hope to learn soon. I'm
> actually very interested in C, Perl, etc. Gotten pretty fair with Html and
> that's been interesting. In any case I digress. I can fully appreciate
> dreaming about solutions, but I think mine were kinda nightmarish in
> nature. Apt-get install this and that and this and that and on and on and
> it was really scary stuff after while.Not to mention before all that it
> was partitioning and hacking on reasons why things wouldn't boot and it
> was really nuts. I think this is a part of the process for figuring stuff
> out. Lastnight it was cooking kernels and I swear I had a dream I was
> roasting kernels on the grill or something. Was all insane, but well
> whatever works. The mind is a very scary playground or at least mine seems
> to be.
>
> cul
>
>
>
>
> ---
> Scott
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Scott:
> >
> > I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a
> > large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a
> > reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the
> > evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I
> > learned to go to sleep.
> >
> > Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having
> > awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over
> > again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change.
> > Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on
> > to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc.
> >
> > PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct.
> > But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off
> > inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour
> > somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going
> > on this kind of crazy schedule.
> >
> > Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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