I never cease to be amazed by Ubuntu

I had problems with one of my older PCs with a DLink wireless NIC. Ultimately I used NDISwrapper which let me use the WinXP DLink driver in the Linux environment.

Fortunately that PC is gone now and I'm using something newer with native Linux drivers for my hardware.
 
Hey, thanks for the info guys!

Yes, I'm still using the live CD of Ubuntu 10.04. It's bundled with BackTrack5r3, which I'm *attempting* to use to monitor for attempted wireless intrusions at a public place. (It's a non-trading related story, but anyway..)

I guess BackTrack is now obsolete and replaced by Kali Linux.

I also have a Netgear WNA300 that did get working successfully with NDISWrapper, but unfortunately, NDISwrapper doesn't support MON mode for the adapter. (Not sure if just for this card, or if NDISwrapper doesn't support it..)

I will definitely try 12.04 LTS. Instead of the live CD/DVD version, I'll probably move to a partition arrangement.

Thanks for the link to the driver setup - much appreciated!
 
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Linux was a fork from minix back in the day and BSD is basically Unix. If Linus had BSD back in the day, he would never have made Linux... too bad he didn't live in Cali at the time.
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Great summary, just one clarification: living in California wouldn't have made a difference. BSD was encumbered (not free of AT&T source code to the degree that AT&T wanted) until 1994, and Linux was developed and released a few years before that. So we can probably thank AT&T's lawyers for making Linux so popular.
 
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Is there any way to install Windows OSes in partitions formatted as UFS, Linux ext2-3-4 etc. in order to get faster performance directly under Windows?
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You can install a VM system on Linux such as VMware or VirtualBox, and then install Windows in a virtual machine. The Windows system will then run using the Linux filesystem (the entire C: drive will be represented by one or several large Linux files). On modern CPUs that have VT support, the virtual systems will run at almost full speed. (On older CPUs they will run very slowly.)

You can also run VM systems on Mac OS X and Windows.

Another advantage of running Windows in a VM is that if you want to move to new hardware, there are no compatibility issues; migrating is just a matter of copying over a folder filled with a couple (large) files.
 
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Great summary, just one clarification: living in California wouldn't have made a difference. BSD was encumbered (not free of AT&T source code to the degree that AT&T wanted) until 1994, and Linux was developed and released a few years before that. So we can probably thank AT&T's lawyers for making Linux so popular.
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ah yes you're right, FreeBSD 1.0 was released in Nov 93 by the actual developers/maintainers of BSD386, then the AT&T/Berkeley lawsuit caused them to rewrite the code for 94 in version 2.0 using the newer Berkeley 4.4 code, which didn't contain any AT&T code from BSD386. Apple, who had a base in Darwin, came along a bit later and took a shitload of things from FreeBSD, still in use today in OSX.

I was young at that specific time and public schools didn't even have the old school IBMs with that Oregon Trail game in the classrooms yet, that was soon after though.

I started on linux around 97/98, I didn't know of BSD until a bit after that, but I had to try it and it ran better for me and I simply liked the way it was laid out, ports, all that. I still like Slackware and Debian, they have the right idea as far as stability and testing/releases.
 
Amazes me the efforts to reduce latency on a wireless laptop :)

I've been running BSD for firewalls and some scanning/backtesting engines for a few years. It was introduced to me by some really low latency guys at Merrill and Mizuho.

I have no idea what you would be running on a laptop but it's a lot easier to shave latency by going wired, getting a better ISP (or better route and priority within your ISP) and using your data + execution locations to your advantage.

Chop off the tall poles first, then mind the small ones.
 
Quote from loufah:

You can install a VM system on Linux such as VMware or VirtualBox, and then install Windows in a virtual machine. The Windows system will then run using the Linux filesystem (the entire C: drive will be represented by one or several large Linux files). On modern CPUs that have VT support, the virtual systems will run at almost full speed. (On older CPUs they will run very slowly.)

You can also run VM systems on Mac OS X and Windows.

Another advantage of running Windows in a VM is that if you want to move to new hardware, there are no compatibility issues; migrating is just a matter of copying over a folder filled with a couple (large) files.
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Do you know how much performance penalty will you see when running Windows applications in a VM under Linux?
 
Quote from flashtrader777:Linux distros are a great example of what a community can do just by pooling resources and sharing work.
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Not until IBM, Oracle, SUN and a few others invested a few billions in it.. Otherwise, the merits of Soviet collective farms vs private enterprise are still there for everybody to see
 
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