[ale] Some days are worse than others

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Today has not been a good day.
It has been an intensely frustrating day.

With the helpful assistance of James Kinney I finally mastered
the Fedora Core install routine, only to have it fail and fail and
fail again when trying to format the drives.  Finally figured out 
the primary drive is FUBAR -- right out of the box.

But I continued with my experiments by installing Kubuntu on the
second drive.  Boy is that a mess.  The entire "root" issue is
so screwed up I can do nothing with the system.
I carefully read the instructions and was able to set a root password.
In the terminal, if I type "su" I am asked for a password and it
cheerfully takes the new root password I set.

BUT if I try to run an application from the desktop, such as Adept
(which handles the repository list) so maybe I can install Mozilla and/or
Firefox, the damned thing asks for the root password and won't accept it.
So no way in! But, you say, Kubuntu actually only wants my user password
in such situations.  Well, no it doesn't. Won't take that password either.
Want to change the monitor's resolution?  Same problem.

Want to put a trashcan or a shredder icon on the desktop?  Damned if I
can figure out how to do it. The Help files are of no use.

And I am guessing that my display problems are the result of the crappy
NV driver for the Nvidia card.  Won't give me anything better that 1280X 
1024, which is a waste on a 22" display. And forget smooth scrolling. 
Everything jerks around.  

So I'm going to bed now.  As Scarlett once said, "Tomorrow is another day."

Sean


Sean

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