Costello Calls to Buy a Computer from Abbott

• ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
• COSTELLO: Thanks. I’m! setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying a computer.
• ABBOTT: Mac?
• COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou .
• ABBOTT: Your computer?
• COSTELLO : I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one.
• ABBOTT : Mac?
• COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou .
• ABBOTT : What about Windows?
• COSTELLO : Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
• ABBOTT : Do you want a computer with Windows?
• COSTELLO : I don’t know. What will I see when I look at the windows?
• ABBOTT : Wallpaper.
• COSTELLO : Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
• ABBOTT : Software for Windows?
• COSTELLO : No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?
• ABBOTT : Office.
• COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
• ABBOTT : I just did.
• COSTELLO : You just did what?
• ABBOTT : Recommend something.
• COSTELLO : You recommended something ?
• ABBOTT : Yes.
• COSTELLO : For my office?
• ABBOTT : Yes.
• COSTELLO : OK, what did you recommend for my office?
• ABBOTT : Office.
• COSTELLO : Yes, for my office!
• ABBOTT : I recommend Office with Windows.
• COSTELLO : I already have an office with windows! OK, let’s just say I’m sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal.  What do I need?
• ABBOTT : Word.
• COSTELLO : What word?
• ABBOTT : Word in Office.
• COSTELLO : The only word in office is office.
• ABBOTT : The Word in Office for Windows.
• COSTELLO : Which word in office for windows?
• ABBOTT : The Word you get when you click the blue ‘W’.
• COSTELLO : I’m going to click your blue ‘w’ if you don’t start with some straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
• ABBOTT: Money.
• COSTELLO : That’s right. What do you have?
• ABBOTT : Money.
• COSTELLO : I need money to track my money?
• ABBOTT : It comes bundled with your computer.
• COSTELLO : What’s bundled with my computer?
• ABBOTT : Money.
• COSTELLO : Money comes with my computer?
• ABBOTT : Yes. No extra charge.
• COSTELLO : I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
• ABBOTT : One copy.
• COSTELLO : Isn’t it illegal to copy money?
• ABBOTT : Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
• COSTELLO : They can give you a license to copy money?
• ABBOTT : Why not? THEY OWN IT!

A few days later

• ABBOTT : Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
• COSTELLO : How do I turn my computer off?
• ABBOTT : Click on ‘START’…

Now that I’ve been exposed to the harsh reality that I’m getting older, let me know if this was your first time being exposed to the famous Abbott and Costello comedy duo from the black & white days of television.

This Skit’s Ownership

Edited 05 October 2009. I recently got a comment from Tom King saying that he is the originator of this Abbott and Costello computer skit. He stated that it’s copy written and has no issues letting us use it as long as we link back to his site. I have to issues linking back to the source. I would like to make it known that I don’t know who Tom King is and in our SEO-driven world, this could be a ploy to get more traffic to his site. Oh well. Visit the link of the original skit here > http://twayneking.blogspot.com/2009/05/costello-calls-to-buy-computer-from.html

I am experiencing a deafening silience when it comes to the audio on my Fedora box.  As of this article being published I can not hear audio playing on my computer.  Such as:

• MP3s, Oggs
• YouTube, Hulu, and Flash-based player

Ironically when I do a “Soundcard Detection” it does find it, I hear the test audio.  I can even hear my recording that I just created in Audacity.  I am at a lotal lost.

Banshee 1.0

I think it started when I tried to install the lastest rave of audio players, Banshee 1.0.  I’m running Fedora 8, I’m a linux noob, so I checked my respositories and it had a version 0.13.  YUM search, YUM install all produced a non-1.0 version.  So; I downloaded the source file and tried to ./configure, make, make install.  Not to my surprise I had a dependency issue.  I did a search in my program manager and then google.com for any direction.  I’d find the library file and install THAT from source.  For the next hour or so it was rince and repeat.  Evey time I executed ./configure, I kept falling into a depenency issue.

For some of them I installed by source, but Fedora still didn’t recognize that it was installed.

Over the past couple of months – I’ve picked up that any library or program that comes stock with the distro you will find in /usr folder.  Anything you install afterwards should go into the /usr/local folder.  In there it has a “src”, “share”, and a “lib” folder.  So I could move my source files to /usr/local/src and compile them from there.  I would also install precomipled programs, such as Fire fox into the /usr/local/share/applications folder.

Well basically the system wouldn’t look into the /usr/local/lib folder to see that library I just install resides there.  I ended up on my LUG’s mailing list for some answers.  They pointed me into the right direction, but I STILL had other dependency issues.  It was not a pretty site.  Ironically; my older IBM Thinkpad R40 laptop is running Fedora 9 and I did “YUM install banshee” and it installed version 1.0 without any issues.  Hmmm, I might need to upgrade my desktop.

Overall; YUM seems to be a better route of installing programs, I just need to understand how to work it.  I still haven’t figured out the problem – I don’t know where to start.  This sucks!