It would appear that on Jul 13, C Anthony Risinger did say:
On Jul 12, 2011 8:19 AM, "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@ttlc.net> wrote:
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Duuuuude ... just set UTC and forget about it ... forever :-)
The wisdom of others frees time to build more wisdom of self.
Duuuude ... If my personality type was compatible with just doing things the way others have decided were best just because it's easier I'd never have fought my way out of Microsoft's grasp... When I first heard of Linux I didn't find it easier than winblows. (And except for the fact that I'm out of practice {and out of touch with changes in their propitiatory interface} I still wouldn't find it "EASIER") But what attracted me to it was the power of the bash shell (which I had become minimally exposed to via vt100 terminals connected to my former employers Unix machines) And the idea that if I could only figure out how, I could make my own durned decisions about how to set things up. A concept inspired by the fact that a guy I delivered stuff to at the factory had imposed his will on his Unix shell's command line prompt so that it read: Gone fishing: Well I didn't like his prompt. But I liked the idea of a user being able to decide such things for himself. And that, more than anything else made me decide I'd rather fight with *nix to get things the way I want than learn to live with what MS wanted to spoon feed me. Over the years I've made MANY non-standard adaptions to my Linux. Like for example among multi-boot (as in more than one Linux distro) users it seams the prevailing wisdom was to have one /home partition that gets mounted regardless of which Linux you boot. But I've seen that sometimes different Linux will have different versions of the same applications with incompatible .rcfile formats... So when I got ready to do something like that I created a user owned data partition that mounts (noauto,user) during my .bash_profile execution with symlinks in the various distro specific /home/jtwdyp directory trees... I NEVER let anything automount or automatically open an application on a removable filesystem upon insertion. But rather make it easy for "user" to mount/umout the usual ones at will. IE these lines in my fstab: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_Flash_Disk_2008032800001952-0:0-part1 /Shuttle/gray auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TOSHIBA_TransMemory_5B8603000081-0:0-part1 /Shuttle/white auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_USB_Flash_Drive_0000000064DDE527-0:0-part1 /Shuttle/mini auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_SD_Reader_2004888-0:0-part1 /Shuttle/Camera-SD-1 auto user,noauto 0 0 make it easy with mc to select {for example} the dir: "/Shuttle/Camera-SD-1" type "mount <alt>+<Enter> <ENTER>" and use mc to access my latest images... This method works even if I didn't start the gui... In short {as if that were possible with me tehe} I have sufficient knowledge of "self" to know that while I may sometimes have problems with implementing my choices, & while I seek sufficient understanding of the wisdom of others to better evaluate my own choices, I myself will only ever change those choices when it feels right to me. And thus I'm resigned to the fact that MY pc will always be filled with a bunch of half understood kludges that at least temporarily let me run things my way even when the developers took a seriously different path... But the fact that I'm allowed to make my own choices, even if they are not advisable, makes me "love" Linux, and be at peace with my alleged place within it. Which is probably as blissfully "zen" as I'll ever get... <snicker> -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@ttlc.net>>