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Download mIRC & get a life

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: April 21, 2007 at 3:05 pm

Last night there were a few episodes last night on IRC in #ubuntu that needed to be taken care of. However when people would fire off the ops call, nobody was around to help out because more than likely they were out enjoying their life. Well I was given some temp ops to help manage some of the rowdiness last night and during that time I got rid of a person who decided to CTCP finger people, including myself. Well I got a DCC message which was absolutely classic. Now mind you I used mIRC for about a total of 1 year during my gaming years in like 2001. Prior to that I was using BitchX or Xchat, and after that I have been using IRSSI and Konversation. But this message was awesome!
[04/20/07][23:00:00][xxxxx] Why did you place a ban in effect ? [04/20/07][23:00:24][nixternal] ctcp [04/20/07][23:00:41][nixternal] that is normally a *line, but no ircops were around [04/20/07][23:01:40][xxxxx] u know thats a feature with the mIRC so... if someone is exploring a irc client wtf it matter blocxked neway [04/20/07][23:09:04][xxxxx] what u didnt know that?!? hah u prolly dloading mIRC now to find it huh. hah get a life
Well I downloaded mIRC, now I guess I have to get a life Anyone hanging out in Chicago this weekend?

Get the new Feisty FAST!

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: April 19, 2007 at 9:26 am

People tend to go directly to Ubuntu.com, Kubuntu.org, Xubuntu.com and Edubuntu.org to grab the latest downloads. That is fine, but for a day like today, being the Feisty release, you are going to be either downloading forever, or constantly losing connection.

So here is what I would do if I were you. Go to another distros website (i.e. Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo, Debian…) and go to their download section. They tend to have a list of mirrors somewhere in there. Find a mirror closer to your location. If the mirror has any of the distros listed, then there will be Ubuntu a directory or two up. Most universities maintain Linux mirrors to the main distributions. For instance on one of my local mirrors here in Chicago, I downloaded all of the ISOs available for final release in less than one hour. 2MB/s to be exact. Now, once you have downloaded those ISOs, be a pal and seed them with your favorite torrent application. Remember to throttle your bandwidth a little bit though if you plan on seeding multiple ISOs.

Other than that, HAPPY RELEASE DAY EVERYONE!

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RE: Learning Linux

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: April 14, 2007 at 2:48 pm

This is just a quick blog post in reply to Andrew Cowie’s post about Learning Linux.

Andrew posted a great book by O’Reilly for beginners all about Running Linux. Like Andrew I would also recommend another O’Reilly published book that might be a tad to much for some beginners, however it will teach beginners the behind the scenes of the Linux OS, and prepare them for the LPIC Linux Certification. The book is exactly that, LPI Linux Certification In A Nutshell.

This book is command line intensive, however I think learning and knowing your way around the command line, the major commands, and configuration files as well as directory structure is something every user should know. Not only does it make you a better Linux user, but it definitely makes your life easier, and of course makes you smarter, possibly even smart enough to earn that illustrious LPI Linux Certification. Oh, and you can pick the book up for around $20 nowadays.

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