Reading Aynjell's journal

I've never installed linux on a computer and gotten everything working. Hell, the computer I have now is not exactly entirely "working." (To elaborate, I don't have the other two buttons on my mouse working, although the solution has in fact been reached, and I am not entirely sure as to how to mount anything of type USBFS. i.e. so called "Flash Drives.") I can say that the functionality is at a level that I am satisfied with. Everything that I'd use regularly is more than usable. Is there a way to complian about that?

Well, there were a few kinks in the setup:

First and foremost, was my n00b attack. My video card drivers can't be implemented by using the command xorgconfig, no you have to manually add them in (Via nano or whatever text editor). Well, this was simple enough, but I could have sworn something wasn't working until I realized I wasn't an administration level account (i.e. root). I was editing a file that I couldn't write to! With that resolved, i received a hefty GLXgears reading of 11450. Nyum, nyum! :]

Next up, came the my sound card. Well, as a certain NAO member under the alias contingencyplan put it:

"aRts does not play well with others..."

When I compiled KDE and ran it, for some reason, my sound system didn't work like it should, and alsa started to throw a fit. Well, in the KDE control center, I had to turn the sound system off, thus making KDE (and aRts) unawares of my sound system, putting all of my speakers back into action. Harrah for me! :]

Lastly, DMA is a pain. A freind of mine who also has an account here, mystilleef, had to offer me some hdparm settings to enable on boot time. This as I could only beleive (but cannot readily verify) sped my computer up. Not sure if it did, but I'd like to think it did. :]

Well, it installed, and works quite well. Thanks to any and all for the help you gave me!!

Now, can anyone help me to understand linux firewalling?

I'd love to harden my system, and I'm well on my way to doing so (I'm recompiling the entire system as we speak with -fPIC (for prelinking), 3dnow, mmx, and other various use flags to increase the CPU, and HDD performance. I can't wait to instate prelinking! The benchmarks for prelinking are awesome, and increase most program load times by a great deal...

I should be ashamed of myself.