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DrEntropy

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Was "awarded" a Toshiba Satellite craptop on Saturday AM by a friend. It has far outlived its usefulness as a tool for clients. I had a similar unit for a few years and found it to be a rugged li'l beast. MoBo on mine went Tango Umiform a year ago and I wasn't about to put more dollars in it. When my pal brought this one by we stuffed a ~whole~ 256M RAM and my 20G drive into it. It kinda-sorta booted up the OS (old ver. Linux 'drake) but kludged. Tried to stuff FC6 on it but I may as well have spent time wrenching on a car... Yesterday after a gruelling session with a new client I came back to th' hovel and burn'd FC2 onto CD's and loaded that. It spent an hour goin' out to the Fedora server for updates and rebooted into a BEAUTIFUL condition. An all Linux process: Never TOUCHED a WinX machine for the entire exercise. They've come a long way, babee.

I'm chuffed. Just HAD to crow over it. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

My "work" laptop is running XP; need it for client locale LAN operation. feh.
 
This post is from the Toshi. I can log on from two diff'rent machines here, as it appears to Basil's server that it all comes from the same box (a function of the Smoothwall firewall appliance I use). /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
Doc, I've been using my Toshiba Satellite "craptop" as you call it since 2003 - love it! Original battery just died, never had any problems with it (knock on wood), and am also operating XP....

When I log on from my other computer, how would I know if it appears as the same computer or a different box?
 
All the server knows is the IP address of the connection. If your other machine is "hubbed" you can try logging onto BCF with both machines simultaneously and see if it will allow you in "twice". It doesnt seem to care from here, but I have a feelling it may tell you something like :"user already logged on" or suchlike. I ~am~ a bit curious to find out if that happens, so if you do it report back. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
DrEntropy said:
It doesnt seem to care from here, but I have a feelling it may tell you something like :"user already logged on" or suchlike. I ~am~ a bit curious to find out if that happens, so if you do it report back. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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Shouldn't care, Doc. Most web apps use a cookie cached on the machine to handle the login session. As a test, I'm logged in from Safari and FireFox on my mac here at the same time. Server doesn't care about the IP at all.
 
hm. I figured it'd be an addy or MAC ID issue... interesting.

THX Drew! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
 
I Have the Toshiba Satellite laptop as well, and like Tony, its battery has died. I keep it plugged in anyway, so it's not an issue.

The thing has been stone reliable, outlasted son's desktop Compac.....
 
Based on the way the first one performed and took abuse at my hand, I suggest Toshiba to any who ask what to get. I gave the last one some stick. I expect the same preformnce with this'n ~and~ I've got some "spare bits" for it inna closet now! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
drooartz said:
DrEntropy said:
It doesnt seem to care from here, but I have a feelling it may tell you something like :"user already logged on" or suchlike. I ~am~ a bit curious to find out if that happens, so if you do it report back. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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Shouldn't care, Doc. Most web apps use a cookie cached on the machine to handle the login session. As a test, I'm logged in from Safari and FireFox on my mac here at the same time. Server doesn't care about the IP at all.
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That sounds like you're logged in twice on the same computer... therefore both logins are using the same IP... Basically the same thing Doc is doing; Doc is using a Linux box to perform NAT (network address translation) between his internal network and the internet. ALL computers outside his LAN (i.e. the internet) sees ALL traffic going in and out of his LAN as traffic coming and going to a single IP. Therefore the internet sees his Linux LAN firewall as one really busy computer, instead of how ever many computers he may be using on the LAN.

What Doc is getting at is that ~some~ websites only allow a single account to be logged in from a single IP at a time. For example, "Billy Bob" might not be able to log in from home ~and~ work at the same time (i.e. two different IPs). It's an extra little security measure that some sites (hopefully "secure" websites like your bank) take, but may not be entirely common on 'the net' these days. Has nothing to do with the software you use locally, but more to do with the configuration of the server.
 
I'm logged in on my laptop & also on my tower...it didn't give me any problems.
 
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