On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 15:15, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Thanks for sticking up for me. > > Aside from being (appropriately, IMHO)referred to as snotty and elitist, > these two are also 100% wrong in what they said. Reference the other > post I just made showing the md5sums from various other things I have > tried. > > ...And thanks to those of you who are really and honestly trying to > help! Yes, I teach *both* Windows and Linux in the evenings. I have run > Red Hat (and a few other distros) myself since version 5.1. I've run > Linux at home exclusively for almost 3 years. This isn't a situation > where I'm a newbie or MS fanatic. I'm known in my school as *the* Linux > advocate - responsible for making converts of almost all my students and > most of the school's IT department. Several of them sit in on my class > to pick up more info and have been waiting in the wings to take Red Hat > 9 out for a spin. > > There is a software problem with CD burning and it should probably be > bugzilla'd. I'll get to that later. First, I'm going to my mother's > house because she is asked me to upgrade her system to Red Hat 9 as > well. She's currently on 8.0 thanks to me. > > Obviously, there are a few attitude problems around here too... > > Cheers, > > Chris Williams > > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 15:44, Jim Wilferling wrote: > > > > > > ... and you are surprised ? Did you expect the magic > > > Microsoft ISO fairy to mend the images for you as it burned > > > them ? > > > > > > > > I am amused that you claim to have actually have run through > > > $25 of media, AND the time to burn _defective_ images. > > > > > > Was teaching the class on XP more embarrassing than being a > > > clueless troll ? > > > > > > > If cdrecord is the problem, I sure hope someone fixes this soon... > > > > > > No, the issue is much deeper than that. > > > > > > -- Russ Herrold > > The amount of elitism and general snottiness on this list is > > mindblowing. People come here for help, not attitude. Is it any way to > > treat someone who is actually advocating Linux to a whole class of > > students? > > -- > > Jim Wilferling <wolf67@xxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > ==================================== > "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, > try orderin' someone else's dog around." > --Cowboy Wisdom > Is there a possibility of networking your studendts' machine to yours for the install (using the hard drive or ftp install options)? Then there would only be the install boot flopy to write for the students to use. Or I maybe I'm just a cluless troll as well. But I try. -- Jim Wilferling <wolf67@xxxxxxxxxxx>
