My friend jesse is going to college and I'm helping him set up his linux box. He hasn't gotten online yet, but I was just wondering if colleges restrict linux internet access. I'm sure there's...

what exactly is Ada? Never really heard of it.

well, you can use an open(FILEHANDLE, "wget blabhablh". " |") or die "Cannot open wget: $!";

basically, that would take the output of wget blabalhbh and put it to a file handle so you can...

I wonder if anyone could stump him, lol

by "done all the spyware checks" what have you done? Have you used spybot? If so, have you checked for updates? Even when you download spybot's latest version, the adware definition list doubles...

I also prefer firefox. I use it on all three of my linux boxes at home and my windows box at work. If it weren't for the fact that some pages must be viewed in IE, I would never use it.

oops

nose --> blender

I'd rather shoot myself

My view on religion (i like that label better than theology....), is that there is no God, but an energy that surrounds us and is a part of us and everything else. The little subconscious things...

I was raised on video games as well. I got my NES when I was a mere 3 year old. It's crazy, there is an entire generation that have been raised on video games. It's like cable guy, but with video...

My car um... moves and stuff.... and it has an engine and a new 7 dollar gas cap!!!!!

Any moron can put a trojan on a computer and break in if he/she knows if/what antivirus program the "person" has and is intelligent enough to know how to obtain an ip address. Back in the 1337 days...

Does anyone have an opinion on using circular linking versus the good ol' reciprocal linking? Or perhaps how to keep a link circle unbroken?

I think that learning QBASIC in your spare time is the perfect foundation for learning programming. Me and my friend (i686-linux) used to send QBASIC games and screensavers and chat over...

I think perl is a perfect language to write apps in. The GTK API for perl is relatively simple, and if experienced enough, you can combine that awesome parsing/reg exp power of perl with a GUI and...

I think thinkgeek.com sucks. With all of their mainstream geek shirts, it's making a trendy "geek" stereotype. I mean, imagine a world where little blonde geeks roam around in the latest trendy...

I have no clue what that's all about... have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling/windows updating it?

Well, you should definately give mozilla firefox a try. I like mozilla's products a lot more than micrsoft's or netscape's simply because mozilla's products are soooo fast, yet its quickness doesn't...

I tend to like the o'reily books because even though they aren't very down to earth, they are like reading other books ver batim.

Link i686 said, if you have one of those modem/sound card combos... well, good luck getting it to work. I spent a week looking at documentation for the riptide drivers for the soundcard that comes...

. Buffer overflow killing

i had eggdrop running on my first linux box. it was so neat it just sat in a chan in irc.eskimo.com where i downloaded roms :) i thought i was all cool and stuff. untill i stopped using irc.... heh

It's all about BitTorrent... simply put

yeah, I agree

well, it was a joint effort, i'm not going to overcredit myself, buddy.

yeah, the whole difference with tar.gz and bzip2 is that bzip2 gives you more compression, so file sizes are small, but bzip2 is a lot more resource intensive when decompressing. So when size is an...

Or you could just download a linux distro for free, and learn information online for free..... there's always that....

and if you're not using the shadow suite, then copy the lines form the /etc/passwd

I'm not sure about IDE's on linux, as far as I know none exist. There advanced text editors with nice syntax highlighting options. Vim is my favorite editor on linux by all means.

Well, there can be many things going wrong. First you need to identify if the problem is hardware or software related. If you have a router/firewall, is it blocking access on that port? Is port...

It's all about slackware my friend. I've used slackware for 4 years and never once have I been disappointed. http://www.slackware.com

One reason I love using perl is that I constantly learn how to abbreviate code more efficiently.

I actually made a perl robot myself. I have it running on one of my linux boxes and it uses the Net::AIM and Chatbot::Eliza. You can IM it at devstarbot :) I think that aim bots can be used for...

if you have internet access on your laptop, i'm not sure as to why you can't access a pop3 server. are you sure all of your outlook settings resemble that of the desktops? Secondly, why don't you...

Yes, wireless b and g are compatible with eachother, the only difference, is that wireless g has a broader range and is capable of higher transfer rates

I don't know why you'd want to have such an advanced setup if you're only using dialup. My network topography goes Internet > Cable Modem > Linux Firewall > Linksys WRT4G wireless router + 4 port...

Well, you can directly connect two computers using a parallel to parallel, or serial to parallel cable (do a google search for "windows direct connect"), but as far as sharing internet access, you're...

What inspires you to maintain the pursuit of geeky knowledge? Personally, I'd say that the computer is an extension of myself, so it's the gratification of learning how to express myself through an...