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Iowan,

Thank you for the input. Your right, when my friend hooked it up, it wouldnt work. I didnt go with him, so he contacted comcast, and they apparently cycled the router, and it came up just...

Thanks for all your help. I didnt get back to this until just recently.
Looking at the MAC, I saw it was loading on eth1, I think eth0 was the wireless (guess).

I took the interface down, then...

mocoloco, Paul,

Thanks for the advice. Not really sure why its just not grabbing the IP, but I think I will load up Ubuntu, Ubuntu seems to be just slightly more "user" friendly than Debian right...

I loaded Debian up for a buddy, and everything worked great, I had it on my 192 subnet with static IP. When I moved it back to his place, he has no router, just the modem from Comcast, which uses...

GrayMagiker,

Could you make your own loop back connector and test the functionality of that on-board eth?

Just an idea..

Zach

I was playing around with DSL and noticed an application I thought was pretty cool, and was wondering if there is something similar with Ubuntu. I would like to play around with Apache, maybe host a...

Thanks for the great info. I am cautious about using Bittorrent...Tor sounds great, but I think to use it that way might not be the way it was intended, and good advice about downloading large files...

Just wondering if Ubuntu or the Bittorrent client has a way to mask my IP address.

Thanks,

Zach

Bakon Jarser,

Thanks for the advice appreciated.

Zach

PCI.. guess I should have clarified.. thanks for reminding me :P

Hi,

I have about 50.00 bucks in my budget to pick up a video card for my i386 machine. Dual Core Pentium. I would just like to get something for around 50.00 that would allow me to use the...

If anyone is curious on this, I ended up putting Slackware 10.2 on my old 486 with 1/2G Ram and it runs like a champ. Just thought if anyone was looking for something similar, this might help.
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Hooya,

Good advice.. I will do that

Thanks,
Zach

cyclobs,

Thanks, I ran a quick test and it did work. I wanted to try to learn the command lines to see what its doing before just using the GUI.

Thanks,
Zach

Hi,

Wondering if anyone knows how to backup a directory from the command line. I was going through a tutorial that lists
tar cvf data.backup /data where data.backup is the folder you want to...

ronnielsen1,

Thanks... I might just buy something used with a little more power...for Ubuntu and then just give DSL a try on my other.

Zach

I have an older 486 machine just sitting around and I thought I would try to put Ubuntu Server on it. Can anyone suggest a good version for an older machine. 1/2G Ram, general Dell hardware, nothing...

Hi,

Looking for some info on Software. Wondering what product to use to monitor my Network. I have a wireless network with my Ubuntu box tied in directly to my Router. I have an Oracle 11G...