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That, Jimmy, was a great post.

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DuckYy

haha. wow, i totally got "served". no hurt feelings.

umm, where to start. for the permission, it was just annoying me that i could never get it properly set up. i would be able to read and excute files in the ntfs partition under root but while under a regular user, i could never get it to let me excute the files. thanks for mentioning nmap and nessus. i'll have to check it it. the main reason i used linux was to crack wep since i still use dial up =/. thanks for clearing up all my mistakes. (hope this post doesnt make me look like an idiot like the other ones)

boydyboyd

lol, hell no. Linux is the 2nd most difficult to understand thing on the planet (the first being Blood Types). I use it every day and it still stumps me, often. I have crazy respect for the linux gurus.

Permissions annoy me too. I know they are there for the protection of everyone but it's basically the idea behind UAC in windows now, and people always turn that off.

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Tator Tot

Most of the time Linux is not hard to understand. It just has alot you need to learn about it.

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evermooingcow

I think Windows permissions system is far more complicated then Linux. It just doesn't come up as often for normal desktop use...but when it does OMG

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boydyboyd

That is a good point. In 7 you can set it by a slider, but it still appears way too frequently on the bottom one.

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Acoma_Andy

I just installed Ubuntu 9.04. Already had my first mishap trying to install a simple thing like Flash Player. It said something about being incompatible (I did download the Linux version). So I'm going to look into that now

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lattyware

Here is the problem, you are in the windows mindset still.

Remember, you use the package manager for anything application related except as a last resort.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ntrepid%20Ibex)

(Not for 9.04, but should work still)

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Acoma_Andy

Windows mindset? No, not really. I'm aware that I'm using another OS. The problem appears to be that I have 64-bit

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But you don't yet understand Linux. It's like... If you were taking Tae Kwon Do and then tried something like Kenpo... You'd still be trying to apply your Tae Kwon Do mindset to your Kenpo even though you know you're doing Kenpo now.

In Linux, you want to use the package manager to install stuff. Go to Add/Remove Software/Programs, type in "flash" and it or an alternative should be available. You click, you hit "accept," you type in your password, and you have it installed.

The only time you should download a file from which to install is if it's not in the package manager's repositories or if you want to compile from source.

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