Yup... and that stems directly from the fact he's a dolt. Prolly the same guy that bought a $300 workgroup switch to support mission-critical networked systems. Million dollar project, cheap-a$$ switches. Seriously people. I blew over 50K in network gear for my side of the network... I wonder why mine works. Dolts!!

Man, this is insane! I may as well be working on a 486DX2/66. Friggin' 17 minutes 90% complete. Shoot me. I should have overnighted my other spindle.

 

Damn D....you could re-write the entire Fedora code that that 486DX2/66 before you finish burning those CD's....

 

I'm on disc 3 now!!! Woo-hoo!! Needless to say, the rest of this case of CDs are going to make fun frisbees and x-mas decorations.

 

UPDATE: Install attempt #1. Partitioned drive, selected packages... CRASH! "Please copy and paste the crap below to report this bug" Grrr... that's what I get for a 'custom' install...

 

L-O-S-E-R

 

ever hear of the "search" function?

 

Yup, and only a single hit... and not what I wanted...

Anywho, its up and running, with the minor glitch of not communicating on my network... destination host unreachable my %*#(! So I see netstat is there, but WTF happened to ifconfig?!

 

this issue reminds me of when I gave RedHat a chance back in 1999......I got the damn thing loaded....but it did not have correct drivers for my modem....(not a win modem either).....I could not for the life of me find the drivers...even thought the HowTos said that the version I installed supported my modem....I called RedHat for some support....and all they could suggest was that I go to "http://www.suchandsuchsite.com" and download the drivers.....yet....they could not comprehend that it was my MODEM that I could not get to work....thus could not get online.....

...anyway....that story went nowhere.....any new and improved features?

 

It's been awhile since I poked around my RH8 box. Looks the same, still has an unpolished and pokey GUI. I'll know more as I play around with it. I mainly need it to load network probe/hacking tools. I have a ForeScout appliance I get to wail on for 30 days.

 

I am working with installing Mandriva 2006 (used to be Mandrake). I considered Fedora. I am anxious to see how it goes for you. I cannot get Mandriva to pick up my on-board video, so I need to get a cheap Nvidia PCI card. My motherboard is an "El cheapo" from Tiger Direct. I had Slackware for about a week and I did not like it at all. It may just be because I am not entirely used to Linux. We will see what happens once I get video. Maybe I will try Fedora before I buy new video card. Of course, I have already downloaded about 800 versions of Linux to "try". I would probably have an even nicer truck if I spent half the time/money on it that I do on the computer.

 

Wow, I love how all these anti-MicroSoft people spend so much time putzing around with bullchit, cheapo browsers that don't work. Then they get up on their high horses and tell us how IE is a POS.

 

What in the world does Linux have to do with IE being a POS?....

 

I believe it is the reference to open source browsers (firefox, etc)

Psst...I'll let everyone in on a little secret...

Firefox isnt any more secure than IE but us techs like to talk about it like it is.

If IE had tabbed browsing I'd use it more.

 

What in the Hell is this thread about??! Can one of you geeks just tell me how to send an e-mail for crissakes!

 

Agreed....but I as well can not live with out my tab browsing....