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I have a friend who says he's "migrating" to Vista. I laughed because it's practically the same OS. He says Vista lets him download his l33t w4r3z faster and it boots quicker. I tell him that his download speeds depend on who is seeding at that time and any improvement in Windows networking won't be noticeable on internet connections, as he has a set speed of 52kbps. Also, any new installation of anything boots faster than an old installation (he had the same XP installation for ages and was complaining about random lag recently), AND Vista should be starting more during boot than XP does, so it makes no sense. Which one of us is right?

Favourite game: SP- Land of the Dead; MP - Warcraft 3; Favourite OS: Ubuntu Favourite console: None Nationality: Australian Accent: Wonky English (I grew up in Australia, have never been out of the country, but I have a weird accent) Sex: Male Age: 18 Race: White, I guess? Height: 5â€7’ Status: Very Single Build: Slightly fatty Favourite band: The Dresden Dolls, NIN, MM, Garbage, Placebo, etc. Favourite book: The End of Alice Favourite author: Stephen King Favourite movie: Eraserhead Favourite director: David Lynch Favourite TV Show: Monty Pythons Flying Circus Favourite actor: Edward Norton Favourite actress: IDK Favourite Pinup: Amanda Palmer? Favourite Comedian: Bill Hicks Other hobbies: Not many that are very active, but I like Piano and Drawing and movies. Car: Pushbike Occupation: Unemployed Student

Nice boots.

:P As I said, I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not.

This is true because Macs only have one network connection connected directly to Apples mainframe. Please elaborate, I have no idea what you're talking about, but if you're right it'll make some good reading later on.

The same issue is on all computers...

LOL WUT? Thread summary: 1. n00b_nugget tell us that he's used the TELNET CLIENT to connect to a SERVER on port 80. He's getting some weird output. 2. I tell him it's probably not a Telnet server that he's connecting to. 3. Deveant elaborates, explains setting up a TELNET SERVER. 4. You misunderstand Deveant and think he's talking about setting up a TELNET CLIENT. 5. I correct you. 6. You think I'm talking about the first post, when I'm actually talking about Deveants contribution.

:| some one pretty much the same as me... in Aus, in Vic, going to Tafe, using it for the path ways into RMIT... im scared... what tafe u going to? RMITs TAFE program. City campus.

Dude WTF the telnet client is on by default in XP all SPs second use telnet to connect to mail.propwned.org port 25 (that's not a telnet server) He means the Telnet Server... Ask yourself, why would you need someone to have the telnet client to be able to connect to them?

Port 80 is generally for Web Servers, not Telnet servers. Sure you're connecting to the right service? Try xx.xxx.xxx.xxx 23 instead.

My computing career started with Windows 3.1 at my grandparents house. They had an old computer my uncle gave them, I played games and used mspaint to make pictures of things. Then I went to Primary School (that's Australian for Elementary School). I ended up at a pretty nice place, they had a bunch of old macs for playing more games. Eventually they got put into this program called "Schools of the Future", and Apple/the Government (not sure which) donated a bunch of iMacs and assorted tech stuff. Behold, the internet! We got to use laptops and the iMacs almost every day and for every project, had our own space on a file server. So when I went to highschool, there were less computers, and they used Windows. My parents got me an IBM Aptiva out of necessity, with Windows 98. I start to get into 3D games and use the internet for things other than school. Around the dawn of Windows XP, I get some game and realise I can't run it. I try to figure out why, and find out I need to do something called "upgrading". I run into other problems too, such as pop-ups and overuse of the internet. I start to figure out how to move things around, and get interested in how things work. I enter a programming class at school the next year. We used Excel functions and VB, but keep in mind that this was my first experience in programming anything with computers. Me and a friend accelerate to the top of our class, finish the work set for us in about half the time it's supposed to take, so the teacher gives us a book of extra programs to make in VB. It's all very easy, so I keep learning. The more I figured out how to do things for gaming purposes, the more I liked manipulating the computer more than the actual gaming. I did a CCNA course through school, but unfortunately the instructor was an idiot so we didn't end up passing. However, because this was my first foray into networks, I learned a whole lot. Around this time, I learned about hackers. I'd heard about viruses and how they were bad and evil and gross, but I never really considered the people who make them, or the people who protect against them. My friends and I become sort of deviant computer enthusiasts. I hesitate to use the word script kiddie, because although what we used was very, very BASIC, we made everything ourselves. We did very basic things, like checking/changing keys in the registry and making pretend windows screens to fool the teacher into thinking we were doing what we were supposed to, batch files to open 100 instances of ping -t [whateverTheSchoolsServersIPwas], got past the schools internet nanny type security (we distributed the tool on the school network, but we passworded the program. In hindsight, I could have broken the password pretty easily, considering it was stored as plaintext inside the .exe), etc. Eventually, my friend gets caught keylogging, with something he got off the net, after he brags about getting the admins password, and gives it out to people. I wasn't connected to it, but he gets banned from computers for a year. I learned some pretty valuable lessons early on: the cracker lifestyle is not at all glamorous, bragging is for losers, and don't get caught, ever. So as I get older and my knowledge of computers gets bigger, I start to learn things. Methods of encryption, number systems, real programming, networking. I got into a TAFE course for Computer Systems and Engineering, and afterwards I'll be getting into the third year of Comp Sys at RMIT University. Recently, I've hit a brick wall: Windows isn't cutting it anymore. I've moved over to Ubuntu. Only been with it for a few days, but I'm learning a lot. For the TLDR crowd: Gamer -> genuine interest in computers -> wannabe hacker -> studying to be an IT Professional

Gamers :roll: