On Friday 03 March 2006 12:03, Don Gould wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I choose to use cc out of loyalty to Wilber. > > He's been working on it for years now and always been my best oss > supporter having spent hundreds of hours helping me learn oss after I > was a die hard MS man.
> I have read an endless number of good things about IPCop. > > I am determined to get my head around cc and support it because of the > support others have put into me. I can understand that. > The next nix thing I'm going to change is my home workstation to run > ubuntu because that seems to be the distro that everyone on clug like or > raves about the most. > > I've used debian before and love it! Steve Holdoway has downloaded a KUbuntu which has the new KDE and KOffice stuff included for us. I'm going to collect it this afternoon. You are welcome to a copy. > I got into MDK because it is what my Wellington friends were using when > I got home from Perth and they gave me some CDs. imho, Mandrake is a total flake hiding in a very pretty skin. > I also recall that I still owe Rob Fisher 4 blank cds and boxes because > he flicked me a copy of MDK10 (I have a long memory for debts I own:) > > Cheers Don > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:53, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Friday 03 March 2006 11:08, Don Gould wrote: > > > I can so relate! New ClarkConnect box I set up last week got hacked > > > on Wednesday and is dead today. > > > > Before you spend time re-building ClarkConnect you might like to > > consider using IPCop [1] instead. While it doesn't have the same level > > of facilities as ClarkConnect it is _much_ safer and sturdier. > > > > Many of us in CLUG use IPCop, I have for several years. > > > > The current version has survived being online for months. > > The d/l is of the order of 40 Megs or I can give you a CD. > > > > [1] http://ipcop.sf.net -- CS
