Re: So are you a hacker?
- From: The Daring Dufas <the-daring-dufas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:01:53 -0500
peepsys wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:peepsys wrote:The Daring Dufas wrote:
I'm glad you posted about the Linksys NSLU2, it was
an item that I was unfamiliar with. I'm now very
interested in it especially the VOIP applications.
Me and my brother have been experimenting with various
Linux and BSD releases. Right now we're playing with
PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ you should check it out.
The best live Linux CD we've come across is Puppy Linux
http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy/doku.php/puppy_releases
It would be interesting to run Puppy Linux on a maxed
out NSLU2. I must have one now. <reaches zombie like
for my empty wallet> Damn!
BTW, killfile Hatter, it will save a lot of bandwidth.
The clueless idiot is the only occupant of me and my
brother's kill filter. The stench it prevents makes the
Usenet experience much more enjoyable. Thanks again for
the NSLU2 post.
TDD
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Hello.
So basically I barely know what the heck we're working with. I've been a DOS/Windows user since 1992. I'm embarrassed to say that my friend and I are fairly clueless about Linux. Yet we want to learn!
I'm an, "old school" user that loved BBS's and fidonet way back.
Is it ok if I ask you some really basic questions? I wouldn't waste your time with stupid inquries, and if I did I would expect links to wiki and hints at google searches.
We just want to learn. We're not stupid. We want to create.
Wonderful, me and my brother have been messing with
digital computers since 1965 and still don't know
everything, dangit! To us, old school is slide rules
and punch cards. Hey, it got us to the Moon. Someone
said, there are no stupid questions, just stupid
answers. I think you already got one of those. If you
miss FidoNet, get back on: http://www.fidonet.org/.
There are any number of BBS's still around that you
can telnet into using your Internet connection without
all those good old long distance modem calls. Check out:
http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ There are still a whole
bunch of dial up only systems around too. Do a Google
search for "active BBS systems" and you may be surprised
at what you find. It's fun to hop in the wayback machine
every now and then. If you post a coherent question about
something that is anywhere near on topic (what the hell
is on topic these days?) you could actually receive an
intelligent reply. If you post something like "i wants 2
bee A haker 2" guess what will happen. You might get teased
a little bit for your lack of some basic knowledge but I
think you can tell the difference between some folks pulling
your leg and those few who are just downright nasty. It looks
like you're using Thunderbird and I would suggest going into
"Tools / message filters" to help get rid of the crap that
can infest the group. Anyway, I've already learned something
from you and I hope this information is useful to you.
TDD
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I'm going to take you up on that! Firstly I'd be curious if you've used VMware. I've considered trying out the free home distribution, however I have no idea what the practical purpose would be. Do you know of any resources that list tutorials for home usage? I suppose it would be much more useful if I was running an active server. Maybe I can partition a VM? I have no idea...
Secondly, our distribution of Linux is really really slim. What should I be looking for on Linux command line listings regarding interaction with the internet? IE. pinging and anything way more interesting than that (oh god how I love to ping...)
Thanks!
Personally, I have never used VMware but It's my understanding
that the 386 CPU was the first processor that could run virtual
machines. You can use it to run several instances of an operating
system on your computer at the same tine and I think that a crash
of one has no effect on the others. I'm no expert but there is a
lot of information about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware
By no means am I a Linux guru but I've been experimenting with it
for a while and Ubuntu seems to be the easiest to setup and use.
There is a large community of developers working on Ubuntu improving
it more and more. It's easy to install, update and add applications.
And there are a lot of applications. http://www.ubuntu.com/
There are different distributions of Linux and BSD that are specifically
put together for different purposes. One place to find out about the many distros is: http://distrowatch.com/
TDD
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