Re: Astronomy and Linux questions

From: Davoud (star_at_sky.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:14:58 -0400

Radoslav Dejanovic:
> ...OS X just couldn't decide what to do with the packets. NAT was set up,
> forwarding as well, routes were fine, ports open, but the packets got stuck
> both ways.
>
> Ok, it *is* an stretched example, going cable, wireless, cable, with two
> firewalls and two NATs, but if I had an Linux laptop I would be able to do
> this in just a few minutes.

And what did all that work enable you to do with your Linux box -- surf
the WWW, read newsgroups, send e-mail? Lotta work for just that. My
machines came out of the box ready for that. Could you run Keith's
Image Stacker? SNP? EquinoX? AstroPlanner? Photoshop? InDesign? Final
Cut Pro/DVD Studio Pro? MSOffice? iChat AV? GarageBand? People pay me
good money to produce still and moving pictures that they can show to
prospective clients, and they don't give a rat's kneecaps whether my
Dual G5 can deal with NAT and IP forwarding. Nor do I care; I have a
wireless network and a hardware router that deals with all of that. No
client has ever heard me say "Can't help you at the moment -- network's
down," and that isn't lost on my clients.

> I presume this might be too technical for you.

Not at all, but too trivial. While you're doing all that I'm actually
_using_ my Macs (and, even, on rare occasion, my Vaio laptop/XP Pro.)

Davoud

Now seven Macs*. The Dual G5/4GB/2x250GB/NVIDIA GEF 6800 Ultra DDL
positively kicks ass!

*Not counting those that are "loaned out." 

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