[TriLUG] Mozilla mess

[Daniel Monjar]

sorry, while it is documented it is not recommended...


--On Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:28 AM -0400 Jeff Bollinger 
<jeff01 at email.unc.edu> wrote:

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> Nice photo of the Festiva, but I want to see the pics with the monster
> tires on the Festiva!  :)
>
> Jeff
>
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>| On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 10:01, Daniel Monjar wrote:
>|
>|> OK... what, then, is the right way to upgrade my RH 7.3 laptop's
> version of
>|> the GNU compiler collection to 3.2?  I pulled down the tarball,
> compiled it
>|> and installed it to /usr/local/bin... how do I get rid of the 2.96
> version
>|> that was installed via rpm?
>|
>|
>| I love this sort of question, we see it a LOT on #redhat (with gcc
>| substituted for kde, or gnome2, etc, etc, etc).
>|
>| A good real life analogy to this question would be:
>|
>| Question:
>| I want to put Monster Truck tires on my 1990 Ford Festiva
>| <http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/bm/images/90festiva.jpg>. Why
>| can't I just put Monster Truck tires on it? It came with tires, why
>| should this be hard?
>|
>| Answer:
>| If you're a skilled mechanic, or experienced in modifications of this
>| sort, you can get Monster Truck tires on anything, including that 1990
>| Ford Festiva. Be warned, it is not as simple as merely taking off the
>| original tires and attaching the new ones. However, it was never
>| intended to run with Monster Truck tires, and if you really want
>| something with Monster Truck tires, we'd recommend that you buy a
>| Monster Truck instead.
>|
>| ~spot
>| ---
>| Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> Red Hat Sales Engineer
>| Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator (LCA)
>| Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
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>|
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>|
>| "Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal." --- T. S. Eliot
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> - --
> Jeff Bollinger
> University of North Carolina
> IT Security Analyst
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Daniel Monjar
IS Manager, Technical Services
bioMérieux, Inc.
Durham, NC US