Holy cow - just switched to mozilla foxfire - SO MUCH BETTER

[Skafrog]

admin@firewall:/var/log$uptime
20:30:54 up 392 days, 6:02, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00

Very nice. Of course, any linux box could do that, thats why Linux kicks ass.
I had mine up for right around 200 days, when I had to throw a tape drive in it.

[LikeCDoos]

i used it awhile back, and didn't like the download manager and it felt like slower speeds to me, maybe there is a newer version out.

[chrisd]

Hah, I just dont like messing around for 500000 hours to get Slackware setup to COMPILE things.
I have tried them all. The best?Very basic Mandrake <snip>
When I am setting up my linux servers for clients, I cant sit around all day and mess with a problem (well, I can, but why) on install, and when no other distro would install without be having to sit there and babysit the damn thing (read: slackware).

I too tried slackware, it's a good way to make yourself realize how much you don't know. I bough RH 5.2 and a book, and it got me started, but back then the hardware support was pretty bad.

Now when I am setting up a server, I just boot Knoppix and call debootstrap as root, apt-get install install sshd, adduser for myself, and go home. I do all the rest over the net. Reboot it the next day, throw on the data, set up printers, etc. and it's all good. Recently I've been trying to figure out a good way to admin the windows machines without opening gaping holes in the firewall: I just ssh -C into my linux fileserver, and forward VNC to my local machine. That + Samba pretty much does it. I love not feeling 0wned by Bill Gates.

[chrisd]

admin@firewall:/var/log$uptime
20:30:54 up 392 days, 6:02, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00

Very nice. Of course, any linux box could do that, thats why Linux kicks ass.
I had mine up for right around 200 days, when I had to throw a tape drive in it.

You almost want to put off upgrades just to get that number up.... I took a screenshot of that uptime a few days ago, just to email to the boss to prove that I really am doing my job. :)

Oh, and some more entertainment:

http://opencurve.org/~sunny/zealot.html

[Skafrog]

do you VNC the windows comp, or VNC the server?
I do a similar thing, but I l do it the puss way (graphical installation). I just have it install sshd and a few other thing it needs.
The new samba is really improved. When I started my first server, I was running Mandrake 7.1 (kernel 2.2) on X-Term (P II 350). Of course, back then, I was only 15, Linux blew ass for beginners, so I messed with it for about a month, then loaded Win2000.
Now I am actually doing this for money, I had to get halfway decent :)

As for the uptime, how long do you think I sat there contemplating it? LOL
Of course, I told myself that no one gives a shit, so no one is gonna ask for my uptime :D

[Brew]

Just discovered firefox a few months ago myself. Excellent stuff.

[mspiegle]

#1: Gentoo owns
#2: Firefox owns
#3: If you're on winxp, download SP2 and use the IE plug-in tool to DISABLE the popup-making crap that attaches to IE

I use IE on windows, firefox on linux (gentoo).

I still use IE on windows because it is faster. I'm a hotkey junky and I expect things to happen as soon as a push a key - not a second later, or even a splitsecond later.

[Kruzen]

meh.. IE with sp2 keeps me happy.. i don't care if i don't have transparent png support.

load times are what usually bugged me with firefox.. i know my way around IE too well to bother with another browser, i tried crazy browser, firefox, netscape.. i just keep returning to IE.

then again, there's always lynx (http://lynx.browser.org/)

[Spaz]

ie baby

i don't like change

[Ducati]

Re: Holy cow - just switched to mozilla foxfire - SO MUCH BE

My work PC was awefully infected with pop ups and what not - (still is)
But just a quick download of fox fire and I can surf all I want WITH NO POP UPS....amazing.

You my friend need a serious lesson on how to use the internet. Stop going to bulshit websites and your comp will not be infected. Very simple my friend. I have maybe had 2 or 3 popups a month; on a bad month. BTW - Download SP2 for a good pop up blocker.

[Charlie]

Re: Holy cow - just switched to mozilla foxfire - SO MUCH BE

My work PC was awefully infected with pop ups and what not - (still is)

But just a quick download of fox fire and I can surf all I want WITH NO POP UPS....amazing. Thanks alot Microsoft for making me deal with pop ups. I'll always keep a copy of internet explorer around (web design) but for me it's fox fire all the way....

It's not microsoft's fault you overindulge in porn sites, Warez pages & File sharing programs.

I run a microsoft shop with very clear restrictions on what pages can be viewed and what programs can be installed, no issue with spyware at all.

Firefox still has trouble loading a number of javascripted pages that we use on a regular basis, and is SLOOOW compared to IE.

-Charlie

[Rob]

nerds

[Charlie]

BTW, the program is called "firefox", didn't you notice that on the titlebar?

This is foxfire: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116353/

Great mid 90's movie with Angelina Jolie's tits and a pseudo girl-girl scene.

I had slack running on one of my desktop boxes until the power supply crapped out, I then salvaged half of the hardware off of it to use on other boxes, maybe I'll fire it back up sometime.

I run this occasionaly as well http://lynx.browser.org/. No popups or spyware whatsoever.

-Charlie

[Kruzen]

I run this occasionaly as well http://lynx.browser.org/. No popups or spyware whatsoever.

-Charlie

beaten like a redheaded stepchild.

[Charlie]

I run this occasionaly as well http://lynx.browser.org/. No popups or spyware whatsoever.

-Charlie

beaten like a redheaded stepchild.

Bah, I ignored all posts besides the first one. Computer nerds need to be stabbed in the eye.

Besides, I was probably using that browser before you were born.

-Charlie