The stupidest idea ever with a reason :I

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: The stupidest idea ever with a reason :I
started by: CrazyDesi

Posted by CrazyDesi on July 03 2004,02:48

My school is extremely strict. Is it possible to change the distors name? I live in the south part of the U.S. and even saying Damn is bad. So I know I can't post it up on a desktop.

Posted by l0st on July 03 2004,05:19

I believe this was brought up before, but the dicussion did not come up with a conclusion.
My place is pretty OK with the name, but I agree the name might upset some people.

Posted by monkymind on July 03 2004,07:44

Its undergoing exorcism as we speak :laugh:

See last message in this thread :

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....1;st=20 >

Cheers
rob

Posted by ke4nt1 on July 03 2004,12:59

My mother-in-law ...
( who, according to legend, was a "wild child" in the 60's and 70's ! )

... and who is now in her 60's, has mentioned a few times about the name..
( Why does it have to have "damn" in it? Can you take it off? )

..... priceless

So. I look forward to the new "undamned" version...

It's been so nice NOT to have to provide tech support for
her ailing HP / winXP / malware ridden box on a weekly basis,
since the installation of DSL.
The only complaint I've been unable to deal with so far is that it
won't play the 'same old solitare' that she has liked for so long.

Need to find a cleaner, easier to read, solitare game for her.

( and a big THANKS for the java extension, since the
"yahoo/msn games" now work online.. whew !! )

A real lifesaver.......

73
ke4nt

Posted by Ekylypse on July 03 2004,15:47

Well....I have a Great Solitare game on my grandparents DSL machine, but I cannot remember what it was called, If I find it i'll release it as a .dsl.

Right when my grandparents got thier DELL I formatted the hard drive and put DSL on it. It ran flawlessly, and since they live 200 Miles away I have SSH installed on it so if they need it fixed I can do it, I can even install the programs and add them to the menu, I love SSH.

It has been running for....oh..a good 6 months without a reboot. :-P

Posted by ke4nt1 on July 03 2004,17:37

Oh My!! ...that SSH link sounds Schweet !!
I'll have to pick your brain on that one...and get the details..
My linited use of SSH/SCP has mostly been one way file transfers.

My in-laws all live in the 2-3 hour drivetime each way from me.
As the good word spreads about DSL, I imagine I'll see a few more requests.

I'll put in a request for the juicy bits on how you setup the links
to their systems... please share your wisdom....

If you've already setup the logon,user,pass
do they tell you their ip, and your in business?

73
ke4nt

Posted by clivesay on July 03 2004,21:14

Is SSH something like NetMeeting?

Posted by hasty on July 03 2004,21:45

More like XP's remote assistance.

Definately something I'd be interested in too Ekylypse.

Posted by John on July 03 2004,23:40

We are in a state of transition in taking 'damn' out of the boot process and user interface. RobertS has did most of the work on this for the next release.

To the user without experience with DSL, this thread may read like DSL does not have SSH installed, it does and can be made to boot with the daemon launched at startup.

Posted by chuck54 on July 07 2004,16:56

Maybe we should replace it with dam for the polite police? :blues:

As in < dam >

oh god im funny.....

Posted by AwPhuch on July 07 2004,20:46

Quote (clivesay @ July 03 2004,17:14)

Is SSH something like NetMeeting?

SSH is like telnet, in a secure wrapper with major authentication and encryption...

You can use it to tunnel ports and whatnot...

It allows you to control Linux with a command shell just like you are sitting at the keyboard...even though you are hundreds of miles away

Brian
AwPhuch