Post #7,699
9/4/01 11:04:59 PM
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Hate to say it, but.. Y'know what this is like?
... Windoze !!
Remember? make *certain* changes (recall - it's nondeterministic) and until two [some say three] reboots, you aren't Really sorta-sure... it took. For now.
Naaahhhh. Couldn't be that, after kernel-complexity level \ufffd is reached.. everything emulates Billyware..
Could it?
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Post #7,708
9/5/01 8:20:48 AM
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Nah.
It just shows that anything can be screwed up, with enough effort.
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #7,710
9/5/01 9:06:53 AM
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well, it hasn't taken much effort to screw this up
but it's taking more effort than I can muster to fix it. :P
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
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Post #7,766
9/5/01 9:28:06 PM
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Who knows
how much effort it took Mandrake's developers/packagers/testers to make 8.0 the... uh... product it is today!
I know that if 8.0 was my first experience with them, it would take a lot of convincing to get me to try thier distro again.
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #7,797
9/6/01 10:31:43 AM
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Yeah.
I actually think that 7.2 was probably the best version of Mandrake I've ever used. Wish I could find those CDs... although, 8.0 and I seem to have come to a truce, so I'm sorta afraid to bother it, you know? :)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
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Post #7,876
9/6/01 8:48:24 PM
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Aye.
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #8,054
9/9/01 9:23:17 AM
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What causes most of the problems with Linux distros...
Is the fact that they offer so many different ways to do things. My concern in this case is that you used the tinyfirewall configuration first, then tried to alter the firewall with Bastille-firewall. I found when setting up my firewall that different config tools set up thier firewall configurations in different files. This could cause more problems than it solves.
There is a Xwindows program in Mandrake 8.0 that sets up network connection sharing (it's part of the suite of config tools that you find on the desktop) I use this to get the basic setup (which includes setting up a basic firewall) then I just tweek the script file it creates to get the results I want. It takes some delving into IPTABLES, but I think it's worth it to KNOW what you are blocking.
I'd give you more detail, but I'm still waiting for my server (as well as my furnature and most of my conforts of home) to get to my new location.
~~~)-Steven----
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Post #8,080
9/10/01 2:29:54 AM
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Actually
If you ask Karsten, what causes most of the problems with Linux distros is that they're not Debian...
*rimshot*
<pedant/> (It's never, ever "XWindows" - it's "X" or "The X Window System" - man X for more details)
-- Peter Shill For Hire
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Post #8,118
9/10/01 2:14:10 PM
5/12/03 1:42:09 AM
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That's *not* true
Most GNU/Linux distributions provide an excellent starting point from which to install, and appreciate, Debian. They're not completely worthless. Edit: typo
-- Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Edited by kmself
May 12, 2003, 01:42:09 AM EDT
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