Ground Control - We've got a problem

[Ralph]

Oddysey , I was asked by Outpost if I wanted to allow IE and I said yes and gave it browser default settings . That's when I got the problems I guess and thats why I was having problems with Kye-U proxy recommendations in stealth surfing . I have to try those elite proxies again . With regard to my imaging program I use BING which has saved my tookas many times . I had just done a new image with the mistake , so I couldn't easily go back . I have some images on CD-R's but they were a couple of months old and my pc changed a half dozen times since I did them . BING ( http://www.bootitng.com ) does allow you to choose a specific file to restore , I usually just restore the entire image which takes about 20 minutes .

[Oddysey]

Ralph;

Understood about Bing, etc. How much hair did you pull out when you discovered that your backup was also bogus?

Me, I just use an old hard drive I had laying around after my last upgrade. I've got a "removable" type carrier that slides into a 5.25" bay, and the old drive is mounted in that. When I want to backup or restore, I just slide that puppy into the magic slot, reboot (the BIOS has to recognize the drive), and then use some form of the xcopy command. Ta-da! Instant full fledged backup (or restore, as needed).

When I'm done, out comes the drive, and back into the cabinet it goes. If there's ever a Class One meltdown, then that drive is safe - it wasn't near enough to the machine to be harmed!


Oddysey

[Ralph]

Nice way to backup , Oddysey . I use BING to backup my system at least 3 times a week . Prior to doing the b/u the system is running at it's best and I've scanned for all bad guys . I place the backup on another partition and then burn it to a cd when I have time . The last time I did a b/u I had IE in Outpost and I didn't realize I had a problem until I went back to IE to browse . MY IE 2 has been great for me ; I tried Opera , Avant , Firebird and felt more at ease with MY IE 2 . It's always good to chat with you , Regards , Ralph

[besafe]

I also use Bootit ng for boot control and imaging. I have images burned of my system at different stages for whatever I want to go back to. I don't back up but prefer to do out of OS images. I like trying out software and after a while I like to restore an image and start fresh. I also prefer MyIE2 as my browser of choice, but Avant browser is good too. Firefox is the best of the other browsers out there.

besafe

[Oddysey]

besafe and Ralph;

As for other browsers, it's a personal game. I'm just sad that many of the more popular ones under Windows are not available on Unix/Linux platforms, nor even on BSD. Yet.

When I use Fedora or SuSe 9.0, I'm fairly happy with Mozilla (included in both distros), but I miss some of my IE habits, I have to admit. Plus, I can't use Proxo under anything else but Windows, so I'm stuck here when I want to surf. Makes re-booting from one OS to the other a pain, so I end up in the Windows domain most of my machine-on time. I still use Linux for website development under PERL, PHP, javascript, etc. The secure shell is lot easier for this old fart to understand and use.


Oddysey

[besafe]

Firefox is from Mozilla and should work with the Linux distros. I like it better than Mozilla.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/.../#download

[Kye-U]

besafe Wrote:Firefox is from Mozilla and should work with the Linux distros. I like it better than Mozilla.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/.../#download

Firefox ROCKS! [lol]

I'm using mmoy's optimization for Pentium 4.
http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/mmoy/?M=D

[Oddysey]

besafe;

OK, so maybe I should look at Firefox as a browser under Linux, but that still doesn't get me The Proxomitron. [angry] [beatdown]

Thanks for the tip and the link.


Oddysey