10 3/4 Year resurrection. Is this a new record?

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Hahaha You woke me up man... I didn't understood how people were still using AOL on Windows 98... Hahaha

I was in the twilight zone for a few minutes.

Cheers.

Garry.

I still use multiple OSes for a variety of work and situations. Just because Linux is my main OS, doesn't mean I don't use Windows equally. I use it, FreeBSD, and even OpenIndiana(Illumos) as needed.

However, welcome to the growing community of Linux users, admins, and enthusiasts, and enjoy your OS and have fun with it.

I haven't used any Linux in months (only Windows)

I only use Windows for DirectX - games...

Holy biscuits mega necro bump Batman!

This is the father of bumps.

Think so. The oldest I've seen up to now was 9 years. Somebody find a 14 year old (or whenever Slackware joined LQ) thread...

I LOVE Slackware.

But if your just starting out take some good advice:

master and use iptables for your firewall period.

Learn VI. It has a tough learning curve but it is worthwhile.

Finally Update and use history and aliases. Do this till you know it cold.

This is advice that I didn't take and should have 15 years ago. I hope you find it useful.

I wonder if the forum was having problems? Recently one was tossed up into my feed about kernel trees being retired, only to learn it was from 2009. But I learned about the existence of curry sauce, so it was a good thing in the end.

It was only sheer politeness that kept me from asking how one could exist at 14.4bps.

Unless you've watched a screen redraw at 300/300 or 1200/75 you haven't lived. I remember being very excited to get that 14.4.

I've still got my USR Courier upstairs in its box. Shame there's nowhere to call any more.
I miss Fidonet.

11-02-03, 05:08 PM

Ironically, this about the time I dumped Windows completely. Dual booted from 1999 to 2004.

The only Microsoft product I use now is Skype.

Slackware has a bunch of free games of highest quality, via slackbuilds. My all-time fave is openarena, which is a free fork of quake 3 arena code. Oh yeah, if you ever see this guy at an airport, hi-five him for me please.

And then there's supertux2, supertuxkart, minetest, openttd (holy $#!+), freeciv, hedgewars. I am only naming ones I played and found amazingly good. I bet the full list is somewhat longer. I understand that 10 games is not the same as 1000 games to pick from. But then, I personally spend 95% of my gaming time in openarena, and it's not uncommon that a single great game takes care of one's gaming needs for years. (Cue the ghost of WoW.)

this guy should be ADMONISHED !!!