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New member introductions / Re: hello from the US
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:59:12 AM »
Quote from: Hoby on April 21, 2010, 11:22:23 AM
Thanks for the intro, welcome to the site, be sure to abuse the search button.

you mean I can't just ask dumb questions and have you hit search for me?  oh man...

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New member introductions / Re: Hello Everyone From Houston
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:58:25 AM »
wow man... terribly sorry for your loss indeed!  Perhaps the next time I am in houston I will take you up on that game.  I must warn you, I am terrible at the game  :-\


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Linux / Re: Fedora 11 is out!
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:53:09 AM »
bit off topic but... I too started using virtualbox over vmware and Boy is it nice!  took me a min or so to figure out how to start the vm headless but after that its a piece of cake  :)

how do you find the performance of VB over Vmware?

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Linux / Re: The future is Linux!
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:51:31 AM »
if you want to use a capture card with linux, check out the mythtv (also check to see if its supported too :P ) 

I hear good things about XBMC for linux as well...


If you want the stability of linux but with user friendly features go buy a mac... I know... I know... its BSD  but they are very close cousins.  If you feel like you need control over your computer, your best bet is linux.

Personally I run Ubuntu, I think the latest version is Great!  If you want to talk about easy installing of software, use the Add software button on the "start" menu.  Doesn't get much easier than that.  Plus I really like the way debian handles their updating of the system with aptitude.

I can't say how it compares to red hat... but I did give fedora (9?) a shot a bit ago and it had problems getting drivers for my hardware which ubuntu did not.

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Linux / Re: The future is Linux!
« on: April 21, 2010, 09:23:20 AM »
Quote from: JustAnotherFace on April 21, 2010, 09:21:45 AM
My own personal opinion of Linux..............

LOL!  Never built one from scratch but I've repaired my share of raster / vector monitors... does that count  8)

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New member introductions / Re: Hello Everyone From Houston
« on: April 21, 2010, 09:21:46 AM »
Quote from: JustAnotherFace on April 21, 2010, 09:15:48 AM
Heck, the Trisha18 is the reason I read this thread to begin with!! Only to be fooled by the real name Noah!

Bah!! Yet again... MMORPG.... Many Men Online Role Playing Girls!!!

JaF

AHAHAHAHA!


Trish... err... Noah,  Where in Houston are you from?  I am originally from the north side (conroe area)

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New member introductions / Re: hello from the US
« on: April 21, 2010, 09:20:28 AM »
Thanks Jaf!

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Linux / Re: The future is Linux!
« on: April 21, 2010, 09:12:41 AM »
I don't know if this helps but there is something called MythTV.  I know it can hook up with a capture card and act as a DVR... as far as streaming it to a tv, I am not sure...

http://www.mythtv.org/


edit:  I tried redhat around 2000, I think it was redhat 5... I read a PCgamer review of linux stating how much more FPS you could get out of quake3, I was amazed!  So I attempted to install it and it looked cool... but I had NO idea what I was doing.

I few years ago, I decided to take a dive again and I fell in love (this was ubuntu).  I am looking to spread my wings and may give fedora  shot.

How do you feel about CENTOS as a server platform?

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New member introductions / Re: hello from the US
« on: April 21, 2010, 08:55:26 AM »
No offense meant, I was a bit tired last night as I was staying up late.

Name is John, I am from Southern California and I am a Systems Analyst in my real life.  In my free time I enjoy coding  PHP and PERL.  I am looking into Ruby on Rails as it looks like a promising platform to start developing on.

I also enjoy tinkering around with my Linux server which I enjoy banning the numerous swarms of wanna-be hackers who try to break into my system on a daily basis  ;)  I swear to god... must be like 10+ a day who try to log in under SSH as "root"... Come on now... who enables SSH on their root account?

anyways, I digress...  Back to me.   I have been playing on and off since 1999 and have recently come back after a long hiatus.  I have only really been messing around with my own private server using runuo for a while now... but when I got back I found that most of my arcane easyuo scripts were... obsolete. 

It was then that I decided I need to cram the mind full of info and learn how I learn best... the hard way.  That is why I came here :)

anyways... I hope you like my re-introduction and I hope that I will be able to contribute in the future

-J

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New member introductions / hello from the US
« on: April 20, 2010, 11:52:50 PM »
Just popping in to say hello :)  I like to code in my spare time so hopefully I will be sharing some nice scripts with yall :)

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