Recent content by poundofflour

vnc does not send passwords in plain text, but the password can be cracked if someone sniffs the key as well as the encrypted password.

i agree with jonw757. assuming that port forwarding is setup correctly, there are no software firewalls blocking requests, and you are attempting to connect to your public ip address there should be no problems unless your isp blocks the vnc port. the solution to this of course, is to change...

hmmm... i was about 16 i suppose. it was a k6-2 with a 12mb voodoo2. ahhh the memories.

you could get a bootdisk to get you into a command line with networking support, then stick the xp cdrom in another machine and share it.

i'm running slack 10.1 with fluxbox, and you don't see fahcore because i am running distributed.net's rc5-72 client.

sweet, thanks for the reply

i have an ssh server running on my machine right now that i use for some remote access. here are some of the current steps i have taken to lock down my machine: private key authentication only disallow root access allow only one username for logins white list of ip's with hosts.allow...

lol this is awesome. post her resume!

i don't see why you couldn't get another voip line with your existing connection

i have an athlon xp mobile 1700+ barton which runs 3200+ rock solid laying around. just wondering if anyone knows if i can pair it up with another one and stuff them into my dual processor system which has the msi k7d master mobo. i would like to get the same clock rate, 2.2ghz, out of them...

not as noticable as you might think, but its worth doing. especially if you plan on having the system for any length of time.

packard bell 386, oh yes!

linux generally avoids using the swap partition unless your physical memory is full. since you have 2gb of physical memory, you should choose a more consevative swap size because you will almost never use it. on my system for example, i have only 512mb of memory. my swap partition is 512mb...

your swap partition size is absurd