LinuxQuestions.org Member Success StoriesJust spent four hours configuring your favorite program? Just figured out a Linux problem that has been stumping you for months?
Post your Linux Success Stories here.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
The Coolest thing I did was use linux as my Firewall/Router that was two years ago now I am using linux 100% no more Windows. The best thing is I end up with a job as a Linux System Administrator.
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
Posts: 3,233
Rep:
using TEXT based mp3 players, aim clients, etc... , reminds me of the time when i used DOS and i was clueless to the insidiousness brewing in Micro$oft
Actually using an OS other than macos NATIVELY (as opposed to emulated) on my macintosh
setting up WYSE terminals (albeit not perfectly)
The coolest thing I did was installing Redhat on my friends laptop.. It was an old panasonic and it only had one bay.. I could only have either the floopy or the Cd-ROM drive in the bay. And it was pretty funny because I couldn't boot from CD either.. But I manage to install Linux anyways!!!! It felt GREAT!
Once I had some very important data in compressed (!!!) format, on a corrupted floppy disk (FAT).
Windows always gave up reading the floppy in a minute with error.
Linux began reading the floppy at 6 p.m., and finished reading all data by 2 a.m. the next morning.
And there was not even a faulty byte in the file that Linux recovered: the archiver could smoothly uncompress the file afterwards.
It was cool, and ever since Linux became my last resort to recover data from corrupted floppies.
O.K., I also had an own, small project (writing some small scripts) to help me archiving my tapes and CDs into mp3 files with the less user interaction possible: just put in the tape, type 'taperecord albumname' or ''cdrecord albumname', and stop the recording at the end of the tape.
At the end of the day type 'makemp3', and have all files converted to mp3 format by the next morning.
Meanwhile I had my first C programming experience: seeing the need to remove silent periods from the recorded albums, I successfully interpreted and modified a freely available, open source program to reach my goal.
The result: each album in its own directory, their tracks in separate files in a quality that best fits the source media, silent periods removed, noise reduction and normalized volume.
Installed Debian. I kept waiting for it to get hard, 'cause I've always heard how hard it is to install Debian. It was really quite easy, especially by the sixth try...
I laugh at who ever said "Planning World Domination" As That is the second coolest thing I did and made alot of money out of the concept too,all for the good !
The coolest Thing was Surf The web Via SSL Proxy and vist Game Clan Sites Appling to join them all.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.