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So, I was in the mood to geek, and I've got a spare box sitting around, so I decided to give the latest version of OpenSuse a try since I've heard good things. After getting it up and running, I'm already of the opinion that I'd rather run Fedora. And I don't particularly like Fedora. I'm admittedly using an 800Mhz processor, but it still seems slow compared with Ubuntu. And doing anything in it requires me to jump through ten times as many hoops. Just to add community repositories I've had to check "trust and import key" almost a dozen times already. And here's another one...

I'm going to play around with it for a bit more, but I think by the end of an hour or two I'm probably going to blow it out and put ubuntu back on this machine and hope the box doesn't hold this experience against me.

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For the Spiritually Geeky:

"We don't know the OS that God uses, but the Vatican uses Linux"

Current Mood: accomplished

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Hey, Ferfer:

If we ever again have occasion to try to print from linux via a usb printer connected to an Apple Airport Express Base Station, I finally figured out what we were doing wrong.

It is set up like an HP Jetdirect, but we need to use port 9101 instead of 9100. That's all.

Thought you might wanna know.

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Year of the Stag

I have apparently missed an announcement about my favorite Linux distribution. The next generation of Ubuntu (due out this spring) is set to be named "Feisty Fawn".

That. Frickin. Rocks. :)

Edit: SQUEEEE! There's already an alpha version available for download! Herd 1, w00t!

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Plan of Attack

I've got a couple of new projects I'm working on in my spare time. Nothing major, really, I'm just working on improving my computer skills to make myself more proficient in the field, and hopefully eventually more hireable. Not to mention that I'm enough of a geek that it's actually fun for me. ;-)

( So here's what I'm working on... )

Current Mood: tired

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Linux Geekery

Playing around a bit with linux livecds on shub-niggurath to get a feel for different distros and increase my familiarity with Linux. (We're actually starting to hit areas in class where knowledge of non-windows/dos operating systems is coming in handy, since we're covering forensics at the moment.) Kinda having fun with it, but also causing me some confusion. For starters, one of the livecds said it detected firewire on my system. My system has no firewire. I'm not sure what to make of that... could it be my motherboard has built-in firewire support but no ports for it? I've heard of certain devices, such as the cvs disposable digital video camera, like that. The main board in them has support for usb built in, but not wired to a port. You just need to solder one on. But an actual computer motherboard like that? I dunno. Any ideas?

So far, I'm a really big fan of ubuntu. Not so much a fan of kubuntu, but I haven't given the latest update a try yet. Somehow it just felt clunkier than ubuntu the last time I used it. I will be giving it another chance, though, along with many many others. I just tried INSERT, which I understand is based off of Knoppix if memory serves. That's the one that's telling me I've got firewire. Tried Arudius a moment ago as well, but my monitor may not be compatible with it, or perhaps my video card. I'm tabling it for now until I can try it out with different hardware. mPentoo was next, but it seems to be freezing on coldplugging pnp devices. Going to try removing the usb wifi adapter from shub-niggurath and see if that makes any difference. Failing that, I will move onto the NEWBIE cd. And we'll see where things go after that. Yes, those familiar with these products will note a bit of an emphasis on cds with forensic and/or pen testing capabilities; as I said, I'm reaching a point in my cns class where such knowledge is coming in handy. I understand it won't be long before we move to redhat there. I'm looking forward to it.

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Linux Question

Just trying to figure something out. I use Mac OSX for my primary operating system. It operates on a Unix base. At any time I like, I can drop into terminal and work from a unix command line. It even supports the X11 windowing system for unix programs. (Gimp and OpenOffice run wonderfully on this, though the keymappings are a bit odd when compared to normal OSX)

Here's my question, then: would there be any conceivable benefit to me in creating a Linux boot disk or live cd with a distribution of linux compiled for the powerpc cpu? I have only a loose understanding of Linux and Unix, but as I presently understand things Linux is essentially an open-source version of Unix, correct? Would this actually provide me with any advantages, or would it just be an awkward way of doing the same things I can already do from the unix terminal available on my system already?