Re: [LUG] Just Curious?

[matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Kevin,

We're actually using Office 2000 with XP, but that is only because I didn't have
the installables for Open Office 6.0. I actually use Open Office on my laptop
(which is running Linux - my own distribution).

I take your point about connecting XP direct to the internet, but needs must at
the moment. I run diald on my firewall, and this works fine when only running
Linux, but needs to be reconfigured because of the XP box. I need to do some
packet analysis - anyone know of some good tools?

Cheers,
Matthew




kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx> on 15/01/2002 21:00:17

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hi mathew,

even if your wife is only happy with XP you could still benefit from
open source software - i'd be interested to know how openoffice 6 for
windows compares.

be careful about connecting the XP machine directly to the internet -
see http://grc.com/default.htm

BTW - there are two great tools on the site for testing firewalls under
the shields up link - i managed a clean sweep - nothing to show [for now
anyway :o) ].  i'd be interested in anyone else's firewalls results - or
any windows machine's results.  i'll test out the firewall at work
(windows SBS) and post the results,

kev

matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Small network,
>
> Frodo:    750MHz Athlon, 768MB, 40GB, DVD, CD/RW, Windows/XP
> Bilbo: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, CVS, DHCP, DNS, FTP
> (ProFTPd), HTTP (Apache), NNTP, SMTP (Qmail)
> Sting: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, NetFilter, PPP, Squid,
> Diald
> Smaug: 750MHz Pentium Laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8100), 256MB, 10GB, DVD, My own
> Linux 2.4.17
>
> Yes, I did buy Windows/XP Home Edition, and to be honest, I really like it. And
> that is a high accolade, considering my feelings about free software. My wife
> can't run Linux. I've tried everything I can to get her to use it, but it
always
> causes a problem somewhere along the line, which she is unable to cope with. It
> is not that she couldn't learn, she just doesn't have the time. She's a user,
> and Windows/XP is a user's operating system.
>
> If anyone is interested, I might post a review of Windows/XP. Flames? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew
>
>
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