let's be picky

[kowalsky]

Hi all,
I became very enthusiastic with Linux since yesterday after installing Mandrake 7.2
It's the first Linux box that I was able to get it see the web http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif and all this with an absolute painless installation off of the images I burned onto disks 2 days ago (available for FREE from tucows.com - take that windoze!).

However, I noticed the fonts in Netscape are just horrible and no settings seem to get the nicer font you have on any windows box.
My first question would be: is the View-Character Set choice from the tool bar equivalent with Edit-Preferences-Fonts and whatever selection there?
Is there any setting that would make Netscape see the web pages in the same way I see them now? (Netscape on windoze).
I think I'm a little confused since this shouldn't have anything to do with the OS... just the character set I use, still I feel like the same char set is showing up differently on the two OSes. Is this possible?
Thanks,
kowalsky

[Jeepsta]

check this out..... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/index.html

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[YaRness]

please secure your box before putting on the internet so it does not become another script kiddie's DoSing zombie.

there are security NHFs here, a security forum, and many web sites with security stuff including www.linuxsecurity.com. (http://www.linuxsecurity.com.)

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[kowalsky]

hi YaRness,
thanks for the advice man. I guess I have enough paranoia in me to not let anything happen. I connect right now through what Netgear calls an Internet Gateway, which is some sort of a router (it seems like a good deal at just under $300 canadian) that has a firewall included (that still waits to be configured).
But the really cool thing is that the lil box is taking care of the whole ISP side and all it needs at the local side is a LAN. So goodby PPPoE, roaring penguin and all that. I needed to specify one single thing for my network card: DHCP, and that was it. Additionally, with PPPoE you connect to the ISP with a DHCP IP given by the ISP and most ISPs limit your account to max 2 simultaneous connections, i.e 2 IP addresses. With my box I can connect up to 256 boxes if I have enough boxes and hubs and they all go thru the same single IP address (of course they share the bwidth).
Now this I find really cool,
kowalsky

[klamath]

kowalski - FYI, that's called NAT (Network Address Translation), and Linux can do it for free (and with no limit on the number of internal boxes). Check out the ipchains (or for kernel 2.4, iptables) utility.

You might also want to setup an HTTP proxy (like Squid) on the gateway machine, so you can reduce your bandwidth usage and cache some webpages.

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[chadm1967]

Mandrake 7.2 includes a GREAT tool called drakfont. With this tool, you can install Windows fonts. If you're dual booting with Windows, you can have drakfont locate Windows and install the fonts. If you are not running Windows, you can direct drakfont to a floppy, CD, ZIP disk, etc., or whatever contains the fonts and install them that way. I think it's one of the best tools that ships with Mandrake. After you install the fonts, restart X and just edit Netscape to use the new fonts. Very, very easy and it works great.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by chadm1967 (edited 25 January 2001).]

[FoBoT]

the best fix i have found for crappy nutscrape fonts is

1) - Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ )
2) - Opera ( http://opera.com/linux/ )



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Fixer Of Broken Things
Use the right tool for the right job!