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and soforth shadow?

Maybe you should join GoS instead.

maby, but i do so like the name.

why ect.(and soforth) shadow?

Yeah i dont get it...
Like shadows, ghosts n nuts etc.

it is a Linux reference, the /etc/shadow folders in any *nix (linux, unix) box is where the encrypted password file is for all users on that box. Kinda supprised that no one (that i know of) caught on to the reference.

I just thought it was common knowledge.  :laugh:

same here, which was why i was kinda surprised that some people didnt know. Ex i guess we are nerds after all  :laugh:

I have never needed to use Linux in my life  :12:

Thats too bad, it is not as bad as people say it is. But any way Anyone interested in joining, yay or nay?

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^ Feh... Now isn't that special.... :14:

I took a class on Linux networking in college, as an elective part of my degree. It's proved more useful than the Novell class I was required to take.

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never used it

It's useful for people who need it to be useful, I just don't need it. Had an Ubuntu disc, tried to use it when windows didn't work, didn't work.  :14:

Admittedly, I haven't used it since that class.  :laugh:

However, it is the foundation of the internet.  :shifty:

well some what... the internet, i do believe, started on ibm machines. well before linux came around and unix/sun was just getting started.

The internet is not a big truck okay, it's not something you can just dump something on, it's a series of tubes

Behold!  The Internet!
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And I believe you CAN dump things on it.  However, heavier items might crush the internet.

In all truth, the internet is based on the hardware because the operating systems are all designed to talk to one another independent of their origin. The Linux being "the foundation of the internet" claim was just for lolz since the internet was technically birthed in the form of several Cold War military computers as a method of preventing the whole network from being taken out when the bombs started flying, so it kind of pre-dates even Linux and UNIX as far as I can remember from class/etc.

right, and the first technical "OS" was IBM's platform. which predates almost everything. again i think. because IBM's system could really do nothing more than read/write to floppy's  and some mathematical equations.

Edit: just looked it as i was curious, partially correct. the generally considered "first OS" belonged to general motors. they designed it for a IBM 701.

Yeah, that sounds right. IBM was hardware almost exclusively. There's as much myth and legend surrounding the origin of computers and networking as fact.  :laugh:

The first example of internet communication was threading string through two cans

No the first example of internet communication is the first human language. Using the same set of words and letters to communicate like on the internet using the same protocols and servers to communicate.

Every definition of "internet" I can find has the word "computer" in it, so I don't think the human language qualifies as an "internet".

The only exception to my definition search is some website from the University of Wisconsin which defines internet as "a network of networks", but then doesn't bother to define "network".  That's like me defining "internet" as "a thurmomdapoplatic pronathalic of gretchindaflication".  (note that this definition is now on the internet, so it therefore must be true.)

In the World Wide Web, Spiderman is king.

The internet is just a network of humans using computers to communicate with each other. But if humans do the same thing minus the computer part it is close enough for government work.

I once found Chuck Norris on the internet.  I believe that he was keeping it down after delivering a roundhouse kick.

the Ethernet is the connection between computers, the internet is the mass connection of computers through the large hubs that actually contain most of the data(words, videos, pictures, codes, et cetera) that we view daily, as well as that which we don't and that which we can not view without some extra tools.

Ethernet is just one of many networking structures. Just because it's the most common (in our homes), doesn't make it the sole type of connection between two computers and therefore a word that can be used in that context and given that definition.

The word you're looking for is "intranet." Notice the subtle difference.

the internet basically started from government work. It was originally a way for the government research facility's to share information with university's and vice versa.

There are so many stories about the origin of the internet, it's hard to tell how much is myth and how much is fact.

Al Gore definitely did not invent the internet.

 :laugh:

 :shocking:

NO! My idol! My mentor! Blasphemy I say!

All hail the mighty, Al Gore! Creator of the internet and discoverer of global warming!

Yeah Al Gore believes in global warming so much that he bought 2 houses near the coast. I bet the earth really is going to flood and terrible earthquakes will occur. It is all bold faced lies.

Just like the Roswell base being filled with aliens..

Aliens is just a cover for the true horror behind Roswell: A weather balloon so diabolical and effective that it actually predicts the weather two months in advance!

Granted if the government does not change it with their weather modification technology.


Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson

Python and C++,C, And C+ never had a need for linux but im self taught will look into it :D

suddenly i am missing BBS's... even though yes you can still connect to them and people do still run them, i can never find a good one really that keeps my interest for very long.

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