cajunman4life

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I'm pleased as punch with TCH. Never had any problems, and these forums can't be beat. It really is a family here. Thanks TCH!

I have been to it. I find it interesting to read the thoughts of my extended family. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh, so you're the one! lol jk... I'm trying to get better at the blog (ie more predictable posts), but my forums are stagnant. I guess that's why I hang out here so much. lol Thanks for checking out my site, and everyone else is welcome as well. And my blog is publicly traded on blogshares too, so feel free to invest in me! lol

Yea, I just re-downloaded both... and RSS Reader (http://www.rssreader.com/) is definately my fav. I used Sage when I was using Firefox, however I recently started using Seamonkey again.

I've used SharpReader and even RSSReader (I think it was called). I began writing my own, and postponed it after a while. I did have it to the point where it would parse RSS and Atom feeds (multiple versions, I don't recall which off the top of my head) and display it in an attached browser object with a stylesheet applied (this was obviously a windows program). I've been thinking of writing a new one in XUL (think Mozilla) here pretty soon. That's my $0.02...

Yes, welcome to the family billyleeWPI. I learned HTML the hard way (ie I went to my favorite web sites, viewed the source, and figured it all out). Then again, that's how I taught myself to program too... It all depends on one's personality but I would highly recommend the W3School tutorial.

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You can check out my blog, http://www.aaronandsarah.net/blog/

Welcome, Brian! You'll like your new family!

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I too have Cox as my ISP. I use their server-side spam filter (which nabs 98% of spam), and I use Mozilla Thunderbird (with a well-trained bayesian spam filter) which usually nabs the rest. I used to get between 500 and 600 emails a day, all but one or two of which were spam. That'd be a great way. At least to take out the spammer.

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Wow, major congratulations in order. I know a guy that has 5 kids and I thought that was too much to handle... I can't imagine. Congratulations once again, best of luck to you and yours.

FreeBSD is what brought me back to Linux/UNIX. I got an old machine with FreeBSD that I made into a web server, and it's all history from there

lol that'll do it... you've been "gooied"! You know I forgot to mention OS X. I really like it too. In fact, OS X and Solaris are the only "commercial" UNIX that I like.

Hey guys, I'm asking the one question that probably gets asked far too often. What is your favorite OS (or distro if applicable) and why? Tell me what other ones you have tried and why you weren't too fond of them as well. I'm the curious type... I'll start it off. I'm not a huge zealot, I believe in using the right tool for the job. I've used Solaris on servers before, and while I really like it, I like Linux on the servers better. My current favorite distro is Gentoo, but I've used Debian, Fedora, RHEL and even Mandrake. I still like Debian, as well as Fedora and RHEL, but I wasn't impressed with Mandrake (used it about 6 years ago so I'm sure it's improved since then). I'm also a big FreeBSD nut. I'm starting to use Linux on the desktop more too. However, what currently resides on my (laptop) is Windows XP Home. I would say the main reason it's still there is because I'm too lazy (and admittedly a bit scared) to try Linux on my laptop. Plus, I use CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and while they used to have a Linux version, they don't anymore (anyone tried it in Wine? Don't wanna install it on one of my servers to find out). I think that about sums it up. Now let me know your favorites!

Perhaps with the release of OpenSolaris we will see more drivers developed... I hope. That's a daunting task when you look at how many different combinations of hardware your standard x86 machine could include (usually servers don't wander too far off the well beaten path though). We'll see...

Thanks for your reply! Some of the issues discussed in a lot of the search returns are things that I tried last time when I tried to install Solaris 10 (I swear Google is a SysAdmin's best friend). I will try these things again however, seeing as how this is somewhat different hardware than what I was using before. Wish me luck!

Hey guys, I dunno if anyone has any experience with this, but I'll ask anyways. I'll be bringing home a Compaq DL360 (G1 or G2, pretty sure G1) here probably tomorrow. I would like to install Solaris 10 (x86), but I've had problems installing it on some of my other (and admittedly older) machines. For instance, the HP NetServer (which currently runs Gentoo) had problems with Sol10, however accepted Solaris 9 with minimal problems (always gave me some kind of memory error on boot-up, however it ran peachy until I tried to load gnome, where it would lock up so I was stuck with CDE ). Does anyone have experience installing Sol10 on this particular hardware? I know it's far fetched, but any help would be appreciated (even a "good luck" lol). Thanks in advance!

A few months down the road, when you are ready to dump Windows "Ex Pee" as you call it (I'm still laughing to myself), I would recommend you give Gentoo a whirl. It's a bit daunting to install at first (took me about a week and 3 seperate attempts on my HP server), but once you get it installed, it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen (and I don't necessarily mean in form, mostly function). Maybe I'm exagerating a bit. Point being, I find Gentoo's package management (called portage) to be extremely easy (easier even than FreeBSD's ports, which is what it was created to resemble). I'm not the average Gentoo zealot, I'm just happy with the results. And there was my $0.02. I would definately recommend knoppix or even the livecd version of ubuntu before you start messing around with your hard drive.

I've got lots to give away. PM me your email address if you want one. Or 50. Oh and btw, it doesn't just hold 1GB... it holds over 2GB now and still counting.

I had internet access on my cell phone, so usually I never went without it. I have since canceled that service, and now I look for hotels with free wireless (Holiday Inn and Microtel are good ones). Once I stayed in a Ramada that didn't... but luckily the pizza place next door did... and I just happened to be right on the "border" so I got a very slow connection, but it was a connection none the less.