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by hcgtv
2010-08-05 15:25
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: Setting up a Debian server on a Windows network
Replies: 164
Views: 36535

Re: Setting up a Debian server on a Windows network

Would you recommend using a GUI tool at all? I'm wondering if it might be better to develop a deeper understanding of things, by working at the most basic level possible. An interface like Webmin will help you learn quicker, just like a file manager, midnight commander comes to mind, will get you u...
by hcgtv
2010-08-04 15:12
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: Setting up a Debian server on a Windows network
Replies: 164
Views: 36535

Re: Setting up a Debian server on a Windows network

SWAT sounds strange. Why would I want to use a web interface? Isn't it possible to have an interface on the server machine? To clarify, our server is a Pc too, I'm using it right now to type this. It's sitting at my feet right here in the office, not a remote machine. I use Webmin these days to adm...
by hcgtv
2010-07-31 16:46
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Are you with me?
Replies: 120
Views: 29930

Re: Are you with me?

Lou, 5 pages of replies, hit a nerve did we? What drew me towards Linux was the feeling of control. I controlled my machine, I held the source in my hand. With this control comes my choice of what to run, Debian of course, and minimal GUI's like Enlightenment at first and now I'm keen on Xfce4. My c...
by hcgtv
2009-10-04 01:09
Forum: General Questions
Topic: monitoring temperature?
Replies: 9
Views: 6734

Re: monitoring temperature?

For lm-sensors, I've always used the deb at Debian.

If you get it going, a nice app for a headless machine is phpSysInfo, though you'll have to be running Apache with PHP enabled.
by hcgtv
2009-10-04 01:02
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Time for a New Laptop
Replies: 1
Views: 697

Re: Time for a New Laptop

Harold check out this website: http://www.linux-laptop.net/
by hcgtv
2009-10-03 17:46
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Can Firefox Add-ons Be Possibly Dangerous?
Replies: 56
Views: 17080

Re: Can Firefox Add-ons Be Possibly Dangerous?

@hcgtv: I no longer use an ad blocking extension but use the hosts file instead. It seems to work just as well and is one less thing to load into memory and slow down the browser launching. I use the entries from the hosts file at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Were every computer in my ...
by hcgtv
2009-10-03 03:22
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Can Firefox Add-ons Be Possibly Dangerous?
Replies: 56
Views: 17080

Re: Can Firefox Add-ons Be Possibly Dangerous?

I use only two extensions in Firefox, Adblock Plus and Web Developer. Adblock Plus not so much because I hate ads, but because ads have become malicious in nature of late. Web Developer helps me with the design of my sites, it's an integral part of my routine. Both of these extensions have source re...
by hcgtv
2009-09-30 19:03
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Lavene resigns
Replies: 41
Views: 21188

Re: Lavene resigns

brain wrote:She has really been a role model for how a good admin should be.
+1
by hcgtv
2009-09-28 03:53
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

DjBones wrote:
hcgtv wrote: The only way to effectively deliver content to the Global masses is via p2p.
A bold claim.
Skype is doing rather well using P2P telephony (analysis by Columbia).
by hcgtv
2009-09-27 16:31
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How to have a Nameserver with dynamic IP?
Replies: 4
Views: 1122

Re: How to have a Nameserver with dynamic IP?

Checkout zoneedit: http://www.zonedit.com/ - it's free for the first 5 domains.
by hcgtv
2009-09-27 12:58
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried
Replies: 383
Views: 82630

Re: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried

This thread just really brings to air the deep stink buried within linux zealots and fanboys. Roy, We're not all zealots and fanboys. I don't run Debian to prove a point, I run it because I like the way it runs my home server. My primary GUI interface is Windows XP. There was a time that I went Win...
by hcgtv
2009-09-27 00:30
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

julian67 wrote:But your universe sounds nice, everything so definite and refreshingly novel.
My universe is the same as yours, we just have different perspectives.

Sorry if I deviated the thread, carry on.
by hcgtv
2009-09-26 23:33
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

p2p is OK in theory for this kind of delivery but when the nation is on very asymmetric connections with lousy upload speeds and uncooperative or even punitive ISPs then the whole thing bogs down, just like any p2p network where everyone is in effect a net downloader. You can't offload the bandwidt...
by hcgtv
2009-09-26 21:50
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

I don't care how many streaming servers a media company may have, it can't scale to reach the kind of audience they would want to attract and they know it. I don't know but they do that: Netflix and cable companies... Here's a good firsthand writeup of the situation: http://www.breakitdownblog.com/...
by hcgtv
2009-09-26 20:49
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

There was a survey/claim by the media industry here that 7 million people use p2p. It was exposed as an exaggeration and an invention but even if it were true that would still mean that many times more than that have broadband but don't use it for p2p. The people using p2p are technologically minde...
by hcgtv
2009-09-26 19:33
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Microsoft is screwed
Replies: 32
Views: 7352

Re: Microsoft is screwed

If you doubt that people want HD look at p2p release boards, you can get pretty much any HD release now in H264 in a Matroska container. And it looks brilliant. This week I bought the DVD of Body of Lies. This is the genuine dual layer retail DVD from Amazon. I compared it to a 4.4GB Blu-Ray H264 r...
by hcgtv
2009-09-23 01:25
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: How to 'resolve' domain name to ip address?
Replies: 1
Views: 620

Re: How to 'resolve' domain name to ip address?

You have to:

a) Update each PC's hosts file.
b) Add the address at the local router level.
c) Use something like DynDNS.

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/ ... namic_DNS/
by hcgtv
2009-09-20 16:48
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Better looking font on LCD's in lenny easy way
Replies: 19
Views: 11620

Re: Better looking font on LCD's in lenny easy way

julian67 wrote:In Debian the bytcode interpreter has been enabled by default since 2006 :wink:
They must of heard my frustrations :)
by hcgtv
2009-09-20 14:50
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Better looking font on LCD's in lenny easy way
Replies: 19
Views: 11620

Re: Better looking font on LCD's in lenny easy way

I went through this back in 2006 with Sarge, this is from a blog post I made back then: Since I purchased my LCD monitor, I've been tweaking the X and Font servers. 48 hours later and I've got my display looking just as good as Cleartype on Windows. Information is a bit scattered and it doesn't help...