Quote: "@dark coder - Proxy's are a very popular LAN config that XP supports by giving you the option to choose "This computer connects to the internet through another computer on the network" on the network setup wizard"
Proxying is fine, but your not doing a single proxy.. so you have to setup a Virtual Private Network (VPN) Connection.
See if it was just
Your Computer -> Server -> Modem
You'd be sorted, but it's not. Routers may have modems but they in themselves act as a proxy system, so it's like.
Your Computer -> Local Server -> Router -> Modem
That one extra step makes all the difference because you have to cross over a second network in order to reach the internet. As such Windows by default can't find that. It's like saying 'I left my keys in the next room' only you actually mean one room over, so Windows is searching the next room trying to find something THAT AIN'T THERE!
Seriously, just buy a Wireless Router and connect directly. Save yourself the headaches.
Further more you think that is bad... I can't even get my Network to be recognised under Linux. No matter what I do while it can find the DHCP for the internet alright, it can't find the rest of my network or act as a DHCP Server for my other systems.
It's not that the drivers are bad, it's not that it can't be setup to do so... I followed the instructions on the SuSE site to the letter. Nothing. I even got a friend over who believes there is nothing outside of the Linux universe, he tinkered for SIX hours. Says he can't figure out why it won't work. For all accounts it should be. Just refuses to.
On Windows usually you can get the Internet, and the Network... just not get them to communicate; that wouldn't be so bad; but this it just refuses to run the network is the internet is on and refuses to run the internet when the network is on. What gets me is they're both using 2 different sodding network cards. Unlike Windows where I can happily use the same card for both.
Quote: "Yeah, well, you shouldn't complain. It's not like it's an Apple Mac or anything.... http://www.thehoucks.com/happynowhere/Apple_Switch_Parody_DivX.avi"
As a long time Mac user, that definately tickled my funny bone. He forgot the one important aspect. Not just the Window popping up to tell you something is wrong but 'Sandi' also letting you know there has been an Er-ror. heh
While it isn't quite as bad as people make out, just like Windows isn't.. it is still a common enough problem for everyone at some point to have experienced it.
Quote: "Linux has crashed less than Windows, in the last 18 months I've been using Linux, though it was still only 2 or 3 times. Barely anything"
In the past 2years Windows XP only crashed on one system I have, which was basically dieing on me. I've run Windows XP Professional on a Pentium II machine since it was released almost non-stop (that's close to 4years now) without a single crash, BSOD, etc.
Linux on the same machine has locked a number of times, but more annoyingly is the sheer frequency that programs simply close themselves. This is what ticks me off the most really, as far as the OS itself completely crashing neither Windows or Linux do that often to me (although linux always seems to damage something else when it does.) what pisses me off more are the internal crashes of the individual programs.
Linux I can hope to run Maya for 5minutes before it just disappears. No Warning, No Auto-Save because of Failiar... just poof!
In Windows this happens quiet a bit when using the Hair feature; not entirely sure why, but atleast it saves my work before it crashes.
So let's move onto Gaim... Windows I can log on to anything just fine. It runs just fine. On Linux however it seems to want to just close every hour, like it's one some trial time limit. Again another 'poof' and gone application. Add to this only Yahoo and AIM connect. MSN refuses to... it took be bloody ages to get the right libraries to compile it to run in the first place. YaST is suppose to do this stuff for you, but it doesnt'.
On the whole as I've ALWAYS said. Linux is an Operating System for people who enjoy tinkering about... It's like a Mechanic and thier own Car, you can tell which cars are owned by mechanics as they always look like patch jobs that while sure they'll run nicely, those guys are always happy to be under the bonnet tweaking them.
Where-as the rest of the population is actually far more happy buying from Ford or such with all the fancy little features included as standard. You know the car is going to work without any problems, and if there are any you don't need to worry just give it back to the dealer and get them to fix it for you.
I have a computer to use it... not to constantly spend time under the bonnet fixing yet another damn issue.
