[svlug] [Ubuntu-US-CA] boot-up sequence

[Joe Smith]

Paul,

Absolutely! Feel free to use anything I've posted.

Thanks!
Joe

On Jan 16, 2008 1:20 AM, SVLUG President <president at svlug.org> wrote:
> Greetings, SVLUG!
>
> Happy  New Year 2008 and all that.  "boot-up sequence" seems to
> summarize what's been going on in my world recently.   Virtual hosts,
> real hosts, unreal hosts... it's all the same... but it's also all
> good.
>
> Brazil was a blast - best vacation I've ever had.  I feel 20 years
> younger.  I've even gone out jogging a few times this past week.  For
> real!!
>
> It turns out my mouth was killing me... literally.    I had these
> metal fillings (can you say, "heavy" metal?) in the back of my mouth,
> and under them, "invisibly", were these big bad-ass infected cavities.
>
> I'd _gotten_ x-rays taken... more than a few places, i.e. more than a
> few dentists had seen my teeth in recent years... but no one saw what
> my new dentist saw, (God bless her heart, I'll be her customer/patient
> forever, even with the flight to Sao Paulo!) Evidently, "dentin" and
> "cavity" can look the same on X-rays... you need something better than
> that... she saw what others missed, I guess.
>
> Her sixth sense told her there was a problem with two teeth that
> looked totally healthy, even on the X-rays.   And she was right.
> Combined with the fact that she can sculpt new teeth and rework old
> ones like Leonardo da Vinci and the end result is... I HAVE A NEW
> MOUTH!
>
> Yup... I have a new mouth!  (odd words to say; fun to repeat...)
>
> My new mouth has one solid bite, no bruxism, no infections, no more
> steely-taste in my mouth, and I've been sleeping more soundly these
> past few weeks than I have in over 30 years. I guess I kind of
> attributed my fitful sleeping to old age, so I wasn't so concerned as
> to try to treat that as "illness"...   but, believe me, before I went
> to Brazil, I'd not have been able to jog fast, for six minutes
> straight, much less for six hours more or less straight... that said,
> the other day, I jogged for more like eight hours BEFORE I started
> getting winded enough to start  finding my way back to the Santo Andre
> street where my Mother-in-law lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
>
> I apologize for being an asshole recently to some people... I look
> back on some of my recent SVLUG-related behaviour and think, "What the
> hell was I thinking?"   So, I apologize to all involved.  Sincerely.
> ...sob... ...choke... ...shoulder... ...hugs.
>
> What else... the OLPC kidtops!  They ROCK!  The kids are going bonkers
> with these things.  They figure them out WAY quicker than adults...
> it's uncanny to watch.
>
> I saw a 4-year-old change an event handler from "always-on" to
> "on-mouse-still"  and then see for themselves what the difference was,
> and learn from it... THAT was SO COOL to see for an old Smalltalk
> hacker like me... Etoys!  It's some version of Gnu Smalltalk, with
> lots of Squeak, from the looks of things, and it's just TOO cool to
> watch kids learn Smalltalk and smile just like I did when I first
> learned it.
>
> Also -  Joe, I hope you don't mind, I'd like to borrow your words for
> the SVLUG kernel-walkthru-group wiki-space on wikiversity.org   I'm
> thinking it'd be fun to explore the differences between how LILO and
> Grib boot kernels.  We'll be borrowing your words a bit in that
> context.
>
> I'm still plowing through emails so if anyone's got anything urgent I
> should know or do, please RESEND so you'll get on the front of my
> email pile.  it's that bad... 3 weeks sans net yielded some 4,830
> unread messages upon my return.  Ouch.
>
> So... if anyone wants the name and address and phone # of my Brazilian
> dentist, just ask... she rocks... and if you wanna go down there in a
> group and give away a bunch of OLPCs to the kids, likewise, let me
> know... and I'll try'n do my best and put something together.
>
> Best regards and happy holidays!
> -Paul
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joe Smith <yasumoto7 at gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 15, 2008 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] boot-up sequence
> To: Ubuntu US California <ubuntu-us-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> Hey Karl, welcome to Ubuntu!
>
> If you are using GRUB as your bootloader (it should say at the top of
> a black screen during the boot-up process) you'll want to edit the
> file /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> A good primer would be located here:
> http://boff.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/editing-bootgrubmenulst-to-change-the-grub-boot-menu/
> and the GNU GRUB manual is located here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
>
> Hopefully that helps, if not, please let us know! :)
> Joe Smith
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 4:32 PM, Karl Chester <karlchester at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I'm a newbie who would like to know how to edit the boot-up screen (WIN
> > XP) so as to change the OS sequence. Thanks...
> >
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