On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > Right now, when I run totally under a Windows XP Professional > environment, I have a Dell notebook which is the internet gateway, and > connected by a crossover cable, I have a Dell desktop sharing that > connection. Thus they can both access the internet at the same time, and > I also have file transfer ability and printer sharing. This allows me to > view much more than I would comfortably be doing on one system, permits > me to do backup stuff on one while I watch the market, read email, > scanning, and web stuff, or just maintain a redundant capability
These can be easily handled by Samba and IPtables. > I am watching the stock market and have accounts open on proprietary > Windows browsers from Fidelity and others and download market data again > using proprietary Windows-based browsers, and sometimes run graphical > applications such as Photoshop, Quark and others, so I don't > particularly see myself entirely cutting the umbilical with Windows... > in any event, even if I wished to do so, it would have to be stretched > out over time Completely reasonable; I'm more of a buy-and-hold investor, so the generic web interfaces work for me. You might want to look into VMware, though, as it would make rebooting to switch OSes a thing of the past. It's a great solution if your only Windows needs are software-centric (e.g., not hardware support), and you don't need a lot of 3D in your Windows apps (3D suport in VMware is horrible). > Having finally gotten a stable debian distribution (woody) which > supports my nvidia graphics card, I am now building up my linux > resources and bringing myself up to speed. It would be nice if I could > run Mozilla and other such under linux on the desktop while I maintain > my internet connection using the notebook gateway Methinks you need to read a bit more about Linux. If you set up IPtables and panic the kernel by hand, it will still route packets in most situations. I don't think Mozilla will affect that. *grin* One potential problem: Does your desktop have an unsupported Winmodem? -- Don Werve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Unix System Administrator) Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
