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RossW
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Posted: 07:13am 04 Aug 2011
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  VK4AYQ said  
I tried dual boot but found it spent more time with its legs crossed than working.


All you "dual-boot" guys should try a unix host with vmware.

I unfortunately am required to provide some limited windoze support to customers. Nowdays, I just boot a machine of the type they have so I can see what they should have. Starting vmware takes about 1 second. Booting an XP home, XP pro etc takes about 35 seconds. Booting winblowz 7 a little longer. Some others a little faster, a couple slower.

vmware lets me have several doze boxes going at a time, and shut them off when not needed (99% of the time), without having to boot, reboot, wait etc. And I can duck from the doze box back to a real box for my work with a slide of the mouse.

Best of both worlds I reckon. All the stability and security of a real system, and be reminded of the windoze-world-of-pain as required.
 
Gizmo

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Posted: 07:43am 04 Aug 2011
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  RossW said  
Oh, phuleeeze.

If you think your ISP is trawling through your PC to see what you have, you should go put your tinfoil hat on, unplug your computer, put it back in the box it came in and return it to the shop. And thats just for starters.


One thing I have noticed about Linux devotees is they can be downright nasty at times.

It seams like every six months we have this same discussion. Someone has a problem with cookies, it's usually because they are using firefox, and I suggest they try IE to see if its a browser issue or a PC issue. Then Ross jumps in with some comment like anyone who uses IE needs to get their head read!

I've heard the OS wars for over 15 years now. I use both systems, each has its good points and bad points. But after all this time, the majority of PC's are still running Windows, and Linux still cant get its act together enough to at least get some of the big software developers to take it seriously. I would love it if I could buy a copy of Dreamweaver for Linux, a proper VB development system, and a portable database as versitile as Access. Untill then I'll keep using Windows.

If the Linux crowd could concentrate on one distro, get some big software developers behind it, and provide the tools the Windows users need to do their day to day work, then they might get somewhere. I would like to see that happen, honestly, but I also work in the real world and office staff dont like change. I tried my hardest to convert a work site over to Open Office instead of spending $20,000 on Office licences. It didn't happen, cause Open Office didn't support a lot of the features they were used to. Most workers dont want to learn new systems, they just want to do their job and go home.

Linux is a good system, but there are too many cooks in the kitchen.

GlennEdited by Gizmo 2011-08-05
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Bryan1

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Posted: 07:51am 04 Aug 2011
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Glenn,
If I may chime in this is the forum I have trouble with having to re log in. This has been happening for over 2 weeks and I have checked my firefox cookies to ensure my password is set too.. With every other forum it works ok but with both of my puters I have to re login everytime I look at this forum.

Cheers Bryan ( with a bleeding finger)
 
Gizmo

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Hi Bryan

Have you tried IE?

Back to my last post, I would go as far as to say Linux biggest problem is its free!

Unix was a powerful system, you wouldn't use anything else for a server. And I remember seeing a few workstations using Unix back in the early 90's, it looked pretty slick compared to Win3.1

I have to wonder how far it would have grown if someone didn't decide to release a free version to the masses. Worth thinking about, might have been a windows killer.

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Bryan1

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Glenn,
I gave IE away when I started with the sat as IE wouldn't work. These day when I click on the IE tab it is a foreign forced input om puter. It still doesn't answer my Q about my login problems.......

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Gizmo

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Just wondering Bryan if both computers are behind the same firewall?
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Bryan1

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Hi Glenn,
Yes they are but before everything worked fine, I'm just wondering now why this forum is so hard to auto join ????
 
Gizmo

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Dont know Bryan.

It was happening to me a few weeks ago, then just came good after a few days. The forum itself is OK else everyone would be having the same problem, its some communication problem between the server and your site, or something to do with the cookie itself. I've heard it can happen with Web Wiz based forum software, its does some pretty intricate stuff with the cookies.

Try flicking off the firewall and give it a test. Log in, close the browser, and try again and see if it auto logs you in.

I'll look into it too, I'm still trying to find the cookies on my computers

Glenn
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Gizmo

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Hey Byran I want to send a PM to you, a way to test the cookies sent from this forum. But your inbox is full.

I've also just realised my inbox is full! Sorry to anyone who has tried to send me a PM, I'll read through them tonight and clear it out.

Glenn
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RossW
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Posted: 08:33pm 04 Aug 2011
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  Gizmo said  
One thing I have noticed about Linux devotees is they can be downright nasty at times.


Glenn, lets get a couple of things straight here before I leave.

1. I am NOT a linux devotee.
Linux is a unix-like operating system, but its not my taste - largely for the
reasons many have enumerated here

2. You think I'm nasty? Hell, you let someone here accuse ISPs of sneeky break-and-
enter of their users computers, and I'm not allowed to defend?

3. You know what? Just forget it....
 
domwild
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Just adding oil to the Linux/Windoze debate:

In my class room it was great being able to trap the programs each student was using during classes and those who were using mail constantly could be asked (politely!) to concentrate on the exercises instead . I am not too sure if Windoze would have allowed me (that easily) to write a simple script to trap that student traffic from the staff room.

And even better, Linux was that powerful that I could get into other Windoze networks via the Samba shares and my colleagues did not like that and that gave me a cheap thrill.

But, as Glenn points out, not all software has a Linux brother and even some video card manufacturers do not give the driver details to the Linux boys, so they can hack it for the Linux boxes.

But it is in our interest to not having to contend with the Microsoft (Wintel) monopoly, which may abuse its market power and has done so. As some Linux devotee said quite inflammatory:

"In a world without walls we do not need Gates or Windows!"
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Gizmo

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Sorry Ross but you need to remember Vasi lives in Romania. Considering its recent history, its not surprising any internet user would be suspicious of "big brother".

The best Linux distro I have ever used was Coyote Linux. It ran from a single 1.4M FDD. I built a PC with 2 network cards and a FDD. No hard drives or CD. The floppy disc contained the Coyote OS, and all its firewall configuration files, plus logs. To administer the firewall you could log in via a web interface, or just use the keyboard and screen. As well as the usual firewall stuff it had a lot of features like port forwarding and QOS.

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