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Dispersing the Linux Lies

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mr6re9:
A brief testimony.

Once Upon A Time......
Like many, my first PC was windows. And second. The difference was my first was a hand-me-down win 95, the second was win 98se that I paid to have custom built (by some OEM). Keeping a potentially long story short...I was cracked very thoroughly. Neither myself or the OEM could reinstall win on the disk without it reverting to the post crack condition in a few days. I had very limited, virtually non-existent computer skills. I heard about linux from a friend and saw a RedHat 7.0 boxed set and gave it a whirl. Thankfully, 30-day phone and 180-day web support was included with the purchase. It was a challenge to be sure, but I stuck with it for a year and a half. 7.0 to 7.1 to 7.2.

Now to the crux of this bizkit.

I have three machines for the family. All are duell boot linux/win98. Our internet connection is a DSL pppoe. We would normally connect each machine independently as needed. Two machines are booted into linux 99% of the time and they connected to our ISP 99% of the time we want them to. One box is almost always used by the kids for playing games and using MSN, Morpheus, etc. Twice in the last 3 months, a condition arose where the win box would fail to negotiate a connection. The linux machines were unaffected, including the linux install on the other half of the win box. My ISP gave me the same old song and dance about removing and reinstalling the software, rebooting, rebooting, rebooting. I did this the first time it happened and the problem was at their end. I would not do it again. WHATEVER THEIR problem was, it did NOT affect our linux machines at all.

Where am I going with this anyway? Oh.....

The solution took a little configuring, but all the necessary tools and kernel modules came stock in my FREE ISO download of RedHat Linux. I set up one linux machine as a gateway masq router firewall. No more failed connections for win. The win box is even more secure with packets going through a linux kernel first. Initially I was amazed at the amount of unsolicited packets to and from the win box. Aren't iptables, netfilter and stateful inspections GREAT?

Anyhow, in conclusion:

1. I spent $200 bucks on win98se two years ago and still have win98se.
2. I spent $60 bucks on RedHat 7.0 a year and a half ago and now have RedHat 7.2.
3. I spent $50 bucks on a firewall for win98se and it was still cracked.
4. I spent a few hours setting up the linux kernels built-in packet filters and have not been cracked.
5. I did NOT spend $500 bucks on Photoshop, I HAVE the GIMP.
6. I did NOT spend $500 bucks on Office2000 I HAVE Koffice and StarOffice.
7. I did NOT have to buy CD burning software, I HAVE XCDRoast.
8. I did NOT have to go online and activate my personal copy of a M$ product in order to use it and get a personal Passport.
9. I DID register my OS with RedHat and I DO get regular Eratta sent by email notifying me of software updates and bug fixes.
10. I get more frags Quakeing in linux than I do in win.
/etc/yadda/yadda/yadda../we/all/know/the/rest

And we all live hippily over ether.

farmer6re9

lost:
Learn something about c or assembly and we will have a discussion.  Until then i will treat you like ignorant person you are.  Fucking gotards everywhere, i swear.  Theres a reason why people leave garden gnomes outside with the dogs.

gnomez:
Originally posted by lost:
Help me, Help me! I'm a mere spreader of lies!

Sorry , I can't help you or hear you.

Nice comments everybody.  I actually wrote the whole thing out of devilishness and frustration because KDE was giving me the shits, and all the other GUI's are not nearly as powerful, good looking, etc.  Taking so long to start everything on my uber-box made me want to bite Linus's head off like Ozzie Osborne.  Then I made the foolish mistake of upgrading KDE in hopes that the newer version would be faster, which caused all sorts of problems, so I had to spend forever getting back to the original RedHat installation.  I have been using Linux for over 2 years now and it frustrated me that while the quality of the software greatly improved, the speed seemed to get much worse.  I tried asking around on message boards why it was so slow, and most of the replies I got were from retards telling me I had screwed up my computer or that there was something wrong with me, not Linux, blah blah blah.  Even though it had been slow since I first installed it. (Red hat 7.2) I tried Mandrake 8.1 and a couple of others but they were actually slower.  I really wanted it to work since I don't like Microsoft as a company very much and was ticked that I had to download an illegal hack just to install the copy of Windows XP that I bought with my own money on my other computer.  Sheesh, I've given you over a thousand dollars Bill, what more could you possibly want?!?! Besides world domination...  
I don't claim to be a computer know-it-all although I am pretty knowledgeable about computers in general and am planning to major in computer science when I go to college, and yes, I do know some programming, just not enough.  I really admire the work people are doing on Linux to try to make it better, and I hope it will become a viable alternative to Microsoft and Mac sometime soon.  Don't make Linux be just for servers! Most people don't even know what a server is and they deserve an alternative too, regardless of how geeky they are.

[ March 09, 2002: Message edited by: Garden GNOME ]

[ March 09, 2002: Message edited by: Garden GNOME ]

Ron:
Sorry to swear but I liked win 3.1 . I ran a 486dx with it & 8mg ram & now run an Athlon 800 with win98 & 256 mg . The only difference in speed I notice ( with stuff like word, excel etc.)is that I can scroll more quickly down windows. I've tried to think of other advantages of win 98 over 3.1 but having several hundred meg of what seems like unnecessary clutter doesn't seem to count. IEEradicator made a visible difference in speed to pop-up menus on 98. My system now has over 17,000 files/folders and I reckon that I'm responsible for about 1500 of those. So BillG & his system authored 15,500 (including files for non-M$ apps to let them 'interface' with win). That seems slightly bloated to me. And with Linux, as far as I can tell, you install what you want/need, not what BG decides you should have. At least I saved space by deleting IE & findfast (which, again as far as I can tell, sucks the will to live from your pc (and helps fill your hd - so you have to upgrade to keep up - BG memo Jan 1997 - get Joe Muglic to upgrade, take advantage of all that extra processing power, bulk up win to slow pc down, must upgrade, take advantage of all that extra processing power.....).As I find alternatives to M$ I replace them on system ( Linux by Xmas 2035 at this rate).
And for Yahoo chat, www.yahelite.tk - no spam, instant , no ads, reams of inbuilt functionality (lots of whistles & bells), & someone'll tell me you get a free sub7 trojan on your system with it.....
Hope Bill never builds mobile phones - you'll need a lorry to transport the latest version, it'll be out of date last week and Estonia's national electricity production to run it.
One good thing about Bill's updated versions of wIMP$UCK - each version crashes more impressively than the last.

voidmain:
I tell you what. You're speed problem could be something as simple as using the "hdparm" command to tweak the throughput on your hard drive.  I ran across a note on "hdparm" one day and noticed I was only getting around 4MB/s read/write speeds on my 350Mhz Dell Optiplex w/256MB RAM and 10GB hard drive (now a few years old).  Everything was slow as you are experiencing.  Web browser took forever to pop up. Well, within a minute or so of checking different parameters in hdparm I was getting 20MB/s throughput and the browser was loading MUCH faster, I was pleased.  After adding the appropriate "hdparm" command to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local life was much brighter after that.

I've found with RedHat 7.2 I've never had to run that command on any machine. It seems to do a good job of setting disks up optimally at install time.

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