Hi there! I'm a bit new to the linux age, been playing with it for a bit but still new. I hope some of yall could help me find some help or documentation on this subject.

 

I will be attending college soon and they have their own "high speed internet access" in each dorm room provided by the campus. I know my way around windows and I know that in windows if you share a network connection, things can get nasty... put lightly. I'm not sure how they have it subnetted if it is per room or not, but I do not want to take any chances. I will have a notebook which will likely have windows installed (though I will try out FC, Suse, and the like first) and I want to make a linux firewall/router/virus/spyware scanner. It doesnt NEED to be a router, it can be a bridging firewall, but the router option is just something to play with (I could add dhcp and html servers... hehe). Is having a firewall with a virus/spyware scanner irrational or can it be done? I kinda want to make it an access point as well.

 

Anybody have any suggestions? Maybe a new approach all together? Which distro to use? :P

 

Oh couple more things I wanna squeeze into this post if its ok...

1.) What is the real difference in distrobutions on the CLI level? Is there one? Is the only thing that COULD be different the shells that they use?

2.) Is a bash shell in, say Ubuntu maybe, the same as it would be in perhaps Suse?

this site was offline today for an hour or two, due to electricity being cut off to our neighborhood,

 

no idea why it happened but of course the server went down (along with everything else...)

 

just documenting it here, the server turned itself on again once power was restored as if nothing had happened at all :)

 

cheers

anyweb

Hey dudes!

 

I am using FC6 for like a month or so and still I find it hard to install stuff when they come in ".tar.bz2" or such formats.

Take my latest find for an example, "mupen64-0.5.tar.bz2".

It's allready binaries so I don't have to compile it (like I have to do with a source.....which I really don't understand :P)

 

In mepis this should be easy....you just unpack and click the Mupen64 file.

But since I run FC6, I have to install it.....and that's where I get stuck.

I still don't know howto do that.

 

Could you guys help me out here?

I wanna play some N64 (Zelda, Perfect Dark, Mario64, Mario Kart 64, Wave Race) on my laptop while I'm sitting in the train.

Only a day left until a new year begins.

I'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year! :)

 

Have a wonderful day/night and take it easy!

 

Happiness depends on more than years.

All one's moments gather to a wave

Passing in a rolling swell of tears,

Passions too immense to name or save.

Yet New Year's is a crest on which to sing,

Now poised between the future and the past.

Each awaits what course the fates may bring,

Winds that never touch the things that last.

Years turn and turn with an hypnotic grace

Even as the depths of life lie still.

Although above one cannot silence face,

Remember that below the divers will.

Hi,

I am using IBM T41 with IPW2100, and just recently installed FC6 (yay~).

So everything is perfect except the wireless (not new...). However, but my problem is that if i go under System->Administration->Network, the OS actually recognizes the wireless card.

However, it's set at inactive, and when I try to activate it, it says "ipw2100 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

I don't know if that means I need to go through the driver, firmware installation again, or if the problem is the ibm's "function" key that is not enabled.

IBM laptops have the function+F5 to turn on the wireless, which seems to be not functioning under linux. However, when I had the FC5, I didn't have to contemplate, because the System->Administration->Network didn't even show the iwp2100 device at all, so I just went ahead and installed everything and it was fine. But now that it's actually showing under the network manager, i don't know if it's the wireless driver problem, or if it's "turning-on" the wireless card problem. I don't want to test it out either because I have way too many documents that I can't lose, and I am away from home in a hotel (so I can't even back it up now). So if anybody had a similar problem, it will be great to hear from you.

 

Thanks.

I got a new(yes thats right I actually got a piece of computer hardware that wasn't ripped from an old system) monitor for christmas and it's awesome. It' s a Samsung 204BW 20" LCD monitor. The manufacturer recommends running at 1680x1050 at 60hz. I would love to do this but it doesn't seem to want to. Anything over 1024x768 and it starts doing ugly things to fonts icons and pretty much anything else. By ugly i mean weird moving edges or ripples and waves. I noticed this originally when I edited xorg.conf by hand, but was painfully reminded when I tried using system-config-display and got the same results. Since it's a new monitor I'm thinking the problem is probably my ancient video card not being able to handle the new monitor above 1024x768, it's a Riva TNT2. Am I correct in this assumption? Or have i missed another possibility? If I'm correct I would love some recommendations for a new affordable video card. It doesn't have to be top of the line but I don't want something worse than I have. Thanks in advance guys.

Hey,

 

I have known about this site: [/url][url=http://roothack.org/]http://roothack.org/ for a while and was tempted to sign up, would anyone be interested in

creating a team to enter this game?

 

There will be alot to learn and should be fun :)

 

what you think?

 

P.S.

 

The website is currently not working correctly.

Well I though I would share this with people, I been looking at apache modules and stumbled into the following:

 

mod_antispam

 

I know anyweb was having these types of problems, well there is now a cool easy solution :)

Being a long time windoze user I was drawn to antivirus software but I now realize I don't need it with Linux. I installed Bitdefender AV for Linux but now cannot find any trace of it to uninstall. How do I get rid of all traces of this.

hello.

 

My name is Adam, from israel

new linux user.

 

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