The progress I'm made with Linux in just the last.. oh.. month... I went from someone who simply hated Macrosloth(hmm.. big lazy thing... makes sence.. I like it) but didn't do anything about it.. to posting here... and preaching the joy of linux.. while having a Linux box right here next to me.. though I'm still somewhat bound to win98.. grr.. must break habit... when I get Samba properly working I can figure something about.. maybe simply use my win machine to store crap on. (and yes, this is gonna be alot of me rambling on about me and Linux.... so... yeah... flee while you can)
But yeah... After my first few attempts at getting/building a computer for linux.. I finally won. Using parts and pieces I had laying around... and after a few failed attempts to rescue old machines people gave me.. I put together a nice lil machine... 320meg ram, pentium 2.. I think...... 16 bit soundcard.. gift via my friends in Yardistan. 2 HDD, a 1 giger and a 2.5 giger. an 8X speed CDROM drive and some floppy I found.. wherever.... I got a nice machine together.. (a winblows user would scof at it, but that's cause win couldn't run well on it...) yerp... put RedHat 7.2 on it.. I had tried 5.1 and 6.2 or something likethat.. I don't knew decimals... before that.. on some of my other machines... this random HP.. no.. IBM machine from 96 died on my... nice 6gig SCSI HDD...hell it was completely SCSI, but had an annoying daughter board for the PCI and ISA cards... (I like ISA.... Same as my GF's name...Isa) anyhoo.. learned the commands of linux... got help my said Yardistani again on getting things to work... and mi padre... With time.. I got DosEmu working (when I found it) on the 6.2 attempt... but WINE is much better... When I got starcraft to work on it. I knew the end of Winblows was coming... two problems though.. I only had 1 set of speakers.... and to use them for Linux.. I had to plug the Lineout from the Linux box to the Line-In on the winblows... which than sent a line to my sterio system... good sound.. but Winblows can't seem to understand less bass is good sometimes... I would connect Linux dirrectly to the sterio.. but all my 10gigs of music are on the winblows.. another problem.. I had no modem on the Linux Box.. it had a POS winmodem.. which I took out not long ago.. since I can't use it... But I had a proxy prog on my winblows machine... and a good firewall.. (IE, free and it was zonealarm, nice firewall) so I routed the Linux box's connection through my M$ machine, but.. I have an External 36k really old modem connected now... I had forgotten I had it. oh.. and I had a netgear Ethernet card on my linux box.. forgot bout that.. that's how the proxy thingy worked... , So.. now.. just the sounds problem.. proly a big problem.... since all my music is on winblows... so.. if I can find a way to install another HDD on my linux comp.. it has 1 more IDE spot free on the secondary cable... I'm all set. Linux has a nice Winampish prog... and better sound mixers... also.. AIM is on Linux...(yeah.. ok... they got me there. I tried to escape through ICQ.. but AOL got them too.... so.. I lose....) and LICQ comes with 7.2... so I was happy.. though.. I can't get it to work right... I can receave.. but not send messages... strange.. AIM works perfectly though.. and I love Mozilla on Linux.. Netscape gave me some trouble.. and I never really liked it...
I find it ironic I'm writing this in IE... I need to pick a prog to handle my pop3 account on Linux.. than I can switch my emails over...
but yeah.. WINE solved some of my problems wit switching to Linux.. I'm gonna try WINEX soon for the possble chance to play D2 (again
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So, since I had to reinstall winblows not long ago, (something that helped the change to Linux...) I never bothered to reinstall word.. and have no plan to.. so at school.. if the teach says... "Ok, don't worry, you can use word to do that" I'll be like.. "err, I don't use word, infact. I don't even have it installed on my windows comp" Teach: "why not?" Me: "I'm boycotting even using it on my computers. I have word processors on Linux that work just fine." (If I remember, I need to try out star office)
Linux even let me try to get into some programming.. PERL... fun... "Do you have a chicken" <STDIN>"Yes" comp: what is it's name? user: bob comp: bob is a good chicken..
ok.. blaim me for being bored. I'll stop now. Pst.. don't mind me.. I'm a bored insomniac young adult. buh bye now... think I'll play with SAMBA again..
