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Linsux and Winbloze - There is no decent operating system for the PC!
savet:
quote:I will however, continue to duel boot me system. I will check out the linmodem stuff too. I'm glad my PC came with Winbloze because if I had bought a blank PC, I would be fucked, unless I installed Winbloze.
How could I have got Linsux to work then?
If I didn't have a Winbloze CD I would've borrowed one and the removed it when I found a driver for my modem. These no legal way to set up a blank PC with Linsux!
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One way would be to purchase a modem that isn't hard wired into the system. I've got a few spare modems floating around that I've pulled out of old computers. If you want one, I'll send one to you for the cost of shipping. One other thing to consider though, is that if your ISP requires special software (such as AOL, MSN, etc) Linux may not work. I've never tried using such programs with Wine.
quote:
How the Fuck do you do that?
I'm a newB remember.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. This was meant to give you something to read up as you get familiar with your Linux system, assuming you decided to continue running Linux. A search on Google will turn up plenty of tutorials.
Also, on a side note, the mounting of the cdrom and floppy has a purpose. It's actually built in because Linux is a multi user operating system. It's designed to prevent another user from removing media that someone else is using. Given time, you'll be typing "mount /mnt/floppy" without even thinking about it. It's like driving a manual transmission. People who aren't used to it will complain about how much of a pain the clutch is, when in fact, you have more control over the engine. Mount is similar in this respect.
Regarding the family using Linux...this tends to be a non-issue when switching people over, in my experience. The difficulty in switching to Linux is in the configuration. Once configured, it runs and runs and runs, little to no maintenance. In switching your family to openoffice.org, you've already tackled one of the hardest parts: new software. From here, it's just learning the menu structure (which you can customize to fit their needs). Hopefully you've also already started switching them to Mozilla instead of IE.
WMD:
quote:Blow up Winbloze?
Imagine the newspaper article
Col:
quote:Originally posted by enjoijeff:
Gee whiz. You can't just start using your computer right away because you are waiting for all your applications to load... That always made me mad because I always had to wait an extra like 30 seconds to a minute sometimes more for that...
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Bah, that's nothing. I really hate it when you bot up, everything looks fine after that life-long wait, and an error message comes up:
"Windows encountered an error while processing the system registry. Windows will now reboot and correct this problem"
It's something like that anyway. Why the hell does it have to reboot? Why for God's sake didn't it fix the problem when it first noticed it?! :mad:
[ June 02, 2004: Message edited by: Col ]
solarismka:
quote:Originally posted by Col:
Bah, that's nothing. I really hate it when you bot up, everything looks fine after that life-long wait, and an error message comes up:
"Windows encountered an error while processing the system registry. Windows will now reboot and correct this problem"
It's something like that anyway. Why the hell does it have to reboot? Why for God's sake didn't it fix the problem when it first noticed it?! :mad:
[ June 02, 2004: Message edited by: Col ]
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Hehe I remember getting TONS of those. It made me sooo mad!
I find that if you have an av/anti-virus scanner or a fire wall, windows gets EXTREAMLY dicy. If you patch windows, eather py patching the os itself or updating the dat files. I found that I had imediate problems. To the point that if I was infected in some way it wouldn't of made a difference.
But I did learn a few things. Just by keeping windows completely off the net. Not installing ANY "3rd party" software (just use the basic m$ stuff which wasn't allot) and keep scandisking, checking and rebuilt (hardware checking every month or so) would mean that even win95 can be just as stable and even more secure than windowsXP! :D
PseudoRandomDragon:
In the bloated respect, Redhat is like WinXP. To get rid of the bloat you need to compile your own kernel. Thing is, I don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it and all newbies don't know how to do it.
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