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nickisgod1

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  1. excluding al myy test boxed and randomly thrown together crap, imy main pc

    OS: fedora core 6

    motherboard: DFI lanparty

    cpu: anthlon 64 3700+

    2 gig ram

    dvdburner sony i think

    120 gig harddrive

    500 watt ps

    geforoce 7600 x 2

    dual 19" widecreens

    and my main laptop is a satelite A75 s229

    if you really want to know the specs you can look it up, but its dual booting gentoo and FC6

  2. seeing as in new i figure i should do this

    My name is Nick a.k.a MNickisgod1

    Favourite game: Risk

    Favourite OS: Fedora Core 6

    Favourite console: NES w/powerpad

    Nationality: American

    Accent: American midwest

    Sex: Male

    Age:22

    Race: Greek

    Height: 6'

    Status: Single

    Build: average

    Favourite band: Sublime

    Favourite book: Harry potter 6

    Favourite author: Mark Twain

    Favourite movie: Clerks

    Favourite director: Kevin Smith

    Favourite TV Show: Colbert Report

    Favourite actor: Vince Vaughn

    Favourite actress: Natalie Portman

    Favourite Pinup: Jessica Alba

    Favourite Comedian: Dane Cook

    Other hobbies: Posting to fedora forum, tinkering, drinking, car audio

    Car: D1993 lexus ls400

    Occupation: Bartender/Student

  3. yeah i would go hardware all the way. it really does depend on what you need if you want something easy that will just work go with smoothwall. if you want to get your hands a little dirty and learn something along the way go with a full fledged bsd of linux distro. I would stay away from the buntus though. by the time you done getting rid of crap you dont need and configureing the hell out of it you be basically looking at debian anyway. So why not start with debian and build up. instead of starting with ubuntu and working down.

  4. to really understand how it works i would say try experimenting. get a linux box. watch your trafic with ethereal or wireshark or whatever their calling it theses days. use traceroute play with your hosts files set up a FTP server, apache and a dns server. read up on TCP layers. As for the languages there just different ways of getting the same things done. more important for knowledge is to learn the differences between server and client side, and what would be more useful for certain situations. then pick the language that best suits the situation. Another useful exersize would be to setup apache php mysql, and learn how php interacts with the database. and how sql works. The information you want is so vast, so just keep experimenting until you dont understand something, then use google

  5. I used to like Toshiba but my latest Tecra M4 is a little on the low quality side. And for laptops that get carried around banged and jostled around, you want a good accidental damage warranty(toshiba has that) and good quality(tecra could be better). But I'm using it now and it works fine so take that as well.

    I can say Toshiba support has been great, software and tech.

    oh and one last thing my M4 has been overheating lately.

    Yeah toshibas are notorius for overheatting, if you have had it a while the heatsink is probably dusty as hell. If your not afraid to open it up, pop the case open and clean it well with compressed air. if you dont want to open it. with the laptop turned off, putting a vacum hose right up to the fans will pull out most of it, and shouldnt break anything.

  6. all day centros or rhel or even fedora. Ive always been a fan of rpm based distros and imn used to the way redhat does things. but i respest debian, just not my thing. but ubuntu in a server situation. its just not what it was built for by the time you were done with it it would be back to a vanilla deb distro

  7. if your a gamer you could pay for cedega i dont use it but ive heard good things. linux hardware recognition has been pretty good so try out a couple of live cds and see what you like. my personal favorite fedora just released their first live cd, I definitely reccomend trying it. It is a good balence for noobs, as well as a distro that is completely customizable and ready for the power user. as for the wireless what chipset do you have. if you dont know boot up a live linux cd and post the output od /sbin/lspci

  8. big fan a toshina, i have 2 sattelites for my laptops, as well sas severeal homemade desktops, and i have been windows free for years so i can say that linux will run on the toshiba laptops. almost exclusivly run fedora and gentoo on the laptops and both are working great

  9. first off i would like to say that although emacs is a great os its a shame it lacks a good editor.

    secondly as an ide i am a big fan of kdevelop

    then use vi to make small changes and tweaks.

    and as always g++ for compiling and gdb for debugging

  10. I use kismet all the time. use the log files to run against airsnort or something similiar however both would require linux, You may want to check out slax or another live distro. But seriously dude in line with the other replies. If you only wasnt to break into another owners wireless network at least use google first, and try to contribute before registering and then saying help me hack

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