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Migration / upgrade questions

MuskokaCowboy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:36:25 GMT

I have been running Linux Mint 6 on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop for about 6 months now and have been quite happy with it. The laptop has a dual boot system

Re: Question about avoiding rootkits and such

Robert C Wittig — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:54:06 GMT

... Hash: SHA1 ... I'm not up to speed on this particular stuff, but just thinking about rootkits, I would start at the very beginning. How would a rootkit be

Question about avoiding rootkits and such

m_alexander61 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:03:51 GMT

Hi, all! After reading the latest Linux Journal I'm concerned about rootkits and /dev/mem attacks on my system (Mint 6). To quote (or paste) from the article:

Re: older machines craving new life

P Sgrignuoli — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:40:34 GMT

What can I say, this used to drive my mom crazy...it's understandable and all is forgiven. As I stated early I will try the suggestions...had an emergency to

Re: How can I remote access my computer behind IPCop firewall?

Donald Cooley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:40:22 GMT

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Re: How can I remote access my computer behind IPCop firewall?

John Black — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:42:00 GMT

Almost forgot! If your ISP gave you a router you also need to open the port on it. My ISP is Arcor, it gave me this VoIP router contraption, so I need to open

Re: How can I remote access my computer behind IPCop firewall?

John Black — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:24:35 GMT

... Mhh, this was actually a few years ago but you get the picture. Big business ruining the smaller shops of the Internet :) -- John

Re: How can I remote access my computer behind IPCop firewall?

John Black — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:20:07 GMT

Hi, I am not familiar with IPcop since I write my own iptables script but it all works the same. Let's call, this computer a) 192.168.1.28 and this computer b)

How can I remote access my computer behind IPCop firewall?

drwhoisgoodscifi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:09:20 GMT

I've really tried using google and reading IPCop documentation to find the answer to this but I am just getting annoyed and confused. I have an old computer

Re: older machines craving new life

Gary — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:30 GMT

... I see from a post down-thread that our questioner is actually female -- I apologize for using the wrong pronoun.

Re: older machines craving new life

David Neeley — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:36:51 GMT

As we used to say in Texas "Sorry, Ma'am!| ("Used to say" because these days I live in Ukraine...) I wish more women were "100% female and proud of it" since

Re: Wanna know Networking b/w win. XP & Fedora linux?

HIREN KAPADIA — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:50:53 GMT

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Re: older machines craving new life

P Sgrignuoli — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:50:51 GMT

Hello I will be working on all the advice later today, and will inform of results. Thanks again, Pat ps, by the way, Pat is short for Patricia...100% female

Re: older machines craving new life

David Neeley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:24 GMT

Unless I misremember, the gentleman was having problems with Puppy. There are others that would be worth trying as well, such as the distribution based on

Re: older machines craving new life

engagedswitch — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:39:28 GMT

hello there how is everyone today?? fine here. i am also a fan of the buntus myself but, if xubuntu still runs a little too slow for him than he may want to