nico
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All this to say IE7 is not an alternative for us. We keep IE5.5 for all our windows machines. or some users who have some troubles with IE5.5 and a website, we install him Firefox or mozilla which use less ressources and stay fast even on a pentium III.
I assume that's Firefox 1.0? Firefox 1.5 and 2 would probably be a bit too much ;)
I think we have a problem with 1.5 but I don't remember what. I tried 2.0 on a machine last week, it worked pretty well.
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You all think every companies use Cisco, have new workstations every year, etc.. I exaggerate, I know
In my case, I have to manage 300 computers with two other guys. There are a lot of pentium III with windows NT 4.0 and some celeron 1,3GHz with Windows 2000.
Because we are a in a small hospital with a small budget, we use these computers as much as we can. I'm still amazed when I see these 7 years old machines working well for the need of the users.
All this to say IE7 is not an alternative for us. We keep IE5.5 for all our windows machines. or some users who have some troubles with IE5.5 and a website, we install him Firefox or mozilla which use less ressources and stay fast even on a pentium III.
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You have to remeber that when your dealing with a massive network that involves lots of permisions and intranet sites that use activeX, firefox won't be ideal. You people need to remeber that what works in you tiny home network setups doesn't always work well when your dealing with hundreds or thousands of manged computers. firefox doesn't have an msi and can't be deployed as such.
You don't have to change it right away. You can add firefox in a new windows image you will use for computers you add or you change.
IE can't be removed and at least the user will have the choice.
Something sure. In a big LAN of thousands machines, it will take a long time before firefox will be avalaible to everybody.
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No way. Even users at work are agreed mozilla/firefox has a better performance than IE. Yesterday, a guy even asked me if I could install firefox for him in his computer.
I'd say your IT manager didn't really try mozilla/firefox or other GPL browsers.
In my opinion, the best browser is links. I even succeded to make a poll in a forum with it :mrgreen:
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I'll be happy to see this :D
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So, let me summarise your logic:
You're unable to buy a computer without Windows on it.
You don't want to use Windows, so you're paying for something you don't want, feel extorted, and now hate Microsoft.
Everything that Microsoft has been involved in is now automatically crap and/or stuff you refuse to use on general principle.
The thing is, you can buy a machine without Windows. However while logic would suggest these systems should be cheaper than the regular ones, they in fact aren't because not installing that OS (to them) means they have to do something special, and that will cost you money. And typically more money than the legal OS image cost. Then you say "What?? $159 (or whatever) for not installing an OS???". Well, keep in mind that when you buy that preinstalled OS, you get it with truly monumental discounts. An example. The latest Pro version of Office will set you back in excess of 600 dollars, but when I order through my company I can get it for about 30, including shipping. And that's not because my company is sponsoring it. They have a volume deal.
Bottom-line is that you're free to claim that Microsoft is crap, but please use facts related to that specific assertion. So if you say Hotmail is crap, either back it up with logic, as opposed to pointing out the company that's currently running it, say you hate them, and thus the service is rubbish.
I mean, I don't trust Google, so I don't use their GMail and other services. I do however use their search engine, because as distrusting as I am with their other products, that search engine is working just fine for me.
I understand what you mean. I was offtopic on this one. Sorry for this.
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Cave man, Hotmail is run by microsoft...
you do the maths.
Stop being so fucking ignorant and I might listen to your PoV. There is nothing wrong with Microsoft, they're not the devil and nor is Bill Gates. You need to stop parrotting crap just because it's cool to bash Microsoft.
You explain to me why Microsoft are so bad and I might reconsider but I've had enough of little kids spouting this anti-MS shit for no intelligent reason,
When we will be able to buy ANY computer with no MICROSOFT inside, even no O/S inside (let's say it is just an option), I'll reconsider my point of vue of microsoft. For instance, it is just crap. For one laptop, I have to buy 1 windows. There's no way to be payback unless to go in justice (one guy in france tried. I think he succeded but he had to wait a long time).
For the rest, I don't care if it's crap or not. I won't use it anyway.
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Arfff...BSD or Linux...I don't care but PLEASE !!!! No Windows !!!!!
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"In The Realm Of The Hackers" by Film Australia, tells the story of Electron and his various exploits during the early days of hacking.
You already have listed "The Code" and even though it contains alot fo similar material I also would recommend watching "Revolution OS".
Revolution OS is a good one.
There's also a documentary from Natonal Geographic which is named "hackers".
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You could try to use a knoppix live cd if it's possible.
If you can, use 'cfdisk' to make a new partition.
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Wireshark which is the new name of ethereal
nmap
nessus
fping
traceroute
mldonkey
mplayer
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I haven't used a fedora base distribution for a long time but I think you should have a graphical user interface where you can simply select the package you want to install.
Check this out or try using a rpm package of ndiswrapper to install it.
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My first Unix O/S was Solaris. It was the first time I was in front of a term. A collegue gave me few commands...especially the "man" command to RTFM :D
During few months, it was a pain in the ass, especially when you can't really test everyhing you want as you only have production machines.
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ndiswrapper is not so hard to use.
If I remember well, yo need to get a *.INF file which is in your windows driver directory.
#ndiswrapper -i [driver.inf]
#modprobe -a ndiswrapper
Your wifi card should work. To be sure, make a #iwconfig wlan0
After that, you need to wonfigure your wireless connection which is another story.
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In a RAID 0 configuration, half the bits of every file are stored on one hard drive, and the other half on the other. You must have the RAID functioning properly to get the data back. Plug in the RAID'ed hard drives, boot your favorite live linux distrobution, and copy the files some where safe (this should work aslong as your RAID controler working under Linux).
It's not RAID 0, it's a JBOD Array.
Whatever it is, you should try using a linux livecd like knoppix, systemrescuecd, to help you recover the data. There are many useful tools which can help you.
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Hum....I'm not sure TOR would be able to make you stealth with your office network.
I've read a bit of the TOR documentation and what I've understood is you get stealth in the WAN. For example, you go to a website, this website will see a proxy IP address and not the IP address of the company.
For me, in your LAN office, the data will still show your IP address until it goes on the router.
forgive me if I'm wrong :oops:
Anyway, as it was said before, you could easily be caught. It's actually depends of your network admin, and LAN equipment.
For example, with CISCO switchs, from an IP address or a MAC address, you can find on which switch and which port a machine is plugged into.
A network probe plugged into the main switch could also alert the network admin about an unusual traffic.
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"Run Forest ! Run !"
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Office 2007 beats the crap out of Open Office imo.
You just have to hope the file format will be readable in 10 years.. That's why openoffice is good. The openformat ensure the possibility to read the document years after it was created.
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If I tried linux, it was for mplayer. With windows, I had to install several codecs, use several players. All divx didn't work well.
With mplayer, I was able to watch all the movies without a problem.
It took some time to get insterested with other things than watching videos and I had to keep one machine on windows because of a usb modem unable to work on linux (Let's say my knowledge wasn't sufficient to make it work). I had to try gentoo to really fall in love with this O/S. After two months, I finally divorced with windows and bought a router/modem. :twisted: .
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Believe it or not this is the first time i've ever seen a Linux machiene crash..........Damn you VaKo, you've shattered my faith in *nix systems
/me bows
I've nothing against *nix, but i'm just tired of people acting like its 100% bullet proof.
I think we're all agreed to say there is no O/S which is 100% bullet proof. Every O/S will always have at least a few bugs. The hardware is also a kind of weakest link.
But still, I saw some SUN servers which were running when I started a job and were still running when my contract was completed 3 years later with no one shutdown. In this situation, we're close of the 100%.. :)
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Arfff...Shame on me..I didn't built my computer yet from scratch..I wait to get a more stable situation so for instance, I'm a laptop user which is really easier for me as I moved a lot these last years.
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You could try base
Thanks man, I'll give this a try. It looks like they only make this for linux, but I'll give it a try:)
Arf...sorry about that. If snort works on windows, it should be ok. Good luck
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You could try base
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