Vox Day's FC2 problems

Anyone care to help out Vox? Following is from his blog at
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_voxday_archive.html#109101701063553560

Fedora Core 2 vs Windows XP

My new machine arrived today. It's a beast, fast and loaded, if not
exactly portable. I've already got Fedora Core 2 installed, in fact, I'm
typing this in on Opera running on Fedora. My first impressions of the
two operating systems are as follows:

Windows is NOT as easy to get going as I expected. What is this
registration nonsense? I can use XP, on sufferance, for 30 days, after
which point apparently I am deemed unworthy. Sure, I'll put in
completely fictional information, but one's system is still identifiable
by Microsoft over said Internet, and presumably the serial number can be
tracked back to the original purchaser. I'm wondering how difficult it
is to remove XP and replace it with Windows 2000, or if that's even
possible.

Fedora is not intrusive, but its strange discomfort with wireless access
is annoying too. I popped in my PCMCIA card, got the Internet working on
the first try, then, when I rebooted just to check things out, the
Internet was no longer working. I had to remove eth0 - a built-in
network card - then create a new eth0 (which had been eth1) for the
wireless card before it would work again. I rebooted to verify that this
fix had taken; sure enough, I'm fully operational.

Now, here's the problem. I can network to the other Windows machines in
the house. But for some reason, I can't get SWAT going, JAGS does not
show the other Fedora machine, and to copy things from one to the other
I have to pass them through one of the Windows machines. This makes no
sense. Why is it easier to network to Windows than it is to another
Linux machine? Anyone have any suggestions?

Still, even with the headaches, it's well worth it. The tank isn't
exactly what I would call under complete control, but at least we're not
scaring the livestock anymore.
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posted by Vox @ Wednesday, July 28, 2004

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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