problem logging into vector linux website

[ejames82]

today i tried registering at the vector linux website and received the usual email, with the instruction "Before you can login, you first need to activate your account. To do so, please follow this link:"
i clicked on the link and it sent me to a webpage that has no clear cut instructions. one of the dialog boxes says "username or email address" another box says "old password:" another box says "new email address" and the last box says "resend activation code" with a button underneath it that probably sends the code. there is no new email address that applies here, but everything else there i tried to "wing it".
i tried putting in my username, old password, put in the activation code that was in the email. i re-entered my email address. below is an attachment of the response when i click to resend activation code.
i even tried just putting in my username and password in the login at the forum page. according to the email from vector, i am already registered. i just cant log in.
i figured maybe some of you folks here are also members over there as well and i might be given an opportunity to log in there. i cant post about my problem there because i cant log in.
thanks.

[oz]

I tried logging into their forums, but it's been so long since I created an account there I don't remember the username, or password that was used.

You might try getting on their IRC channel and see if there is anyone there that can help:

irc://irc.freenode.net/#vectorlinux

[ejames82]

ozar,
firefox was unable to open via your link
the protocol isn't associated with any program

i have an idea, i've never used irc before. don't know if this will work.
thanks.

[ejames82]

i think i see how irc works, but i think i also must be using vector at the time.
right now i am using damn small linux. i dont think i can get into vector's irc with damn small linux irc program. i'll see what i can do with vector OS. maybe they have an irc program as well.
good suggestion.

[ejames82]

i was given a suggestion to try copying and pasting the link into the address bar. it worked. clicking on the link, as i was instructed to do, did not.
somehow there was enough of a diffence to change the page that i was sent to.
i feel it's always good web-etiquette to share the answer.
thanks for the replies.

[rokytnji]

Just for info ejames82. You don't need to be running any special operating system to join any irc channel. I monitor all kinds of irc channels and don't run their OS or software. Irc is just a communicator like email, Just faster. Been a long time since I ran DSL but since it is light. It runs Naim.

Naim Man Page

If running the older Firefox in DSL also. You can install Chatzilla Addon into Firefox if you want a more graphical user irc client also. Took me awhile to learn irc. But worth learning in the end. Happy trails, Rok

[ejames82]

rok,
i think you're right about the name of the irc program included with dsl. i actually checked it out. it works as soon as you click on it (at least i was reading replies by somebody, i didn't post anything myself) and i was kinda surprised. i can see the advantages of the chat thing though. you can actually ask questions "on the fly" versus just reading a thread, you're just given a certain amount of information and that's all you get. it's funny how every time someone helps me with a problem, something unexpected happens, so having that person available can mean the difference between solving the problem and not.
what i assume about dsl is that it's pretty much abandoned. i tried to post there over a year ago. it said i was logged in, i just couldn't post. too bad too, it's probably more popular now than it's ever been.
i'll check out the link.
thanks.

[rokytnji]

If Feeling Brave. If you want to install a supported version of a DSL operating system. Look at Tiny Cores Web Page. The developer there used to work on DSL and made a more modern version with a newer Kernel. It is bare bones at the start. But there is good documentation on how to install stuff and beef it up.

Another Minimal Distro I like is SliTaz

It is easier to install and run than Tiny Core. I don't know your system specs. But if you are running Vector . You can boot Slitaz as a live cd to check it out. Go for the cooking releases. Thats what I do anyhows. It is as fast as DSL and would run on my IBM 390E 366 mhz, 128 mb ram laptop pretty snappy like. If ya got the time and cds that is.

Both those distros are supported and have a vibrant community also.

Edit: Just a review below to give you a idea about SliTaz
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

P.S. I never have tried Vector yet. But I now have newer gear than I used to have also. Happy Trails, Rok

[ejames82]

rok,

"If you want to install a supported version of a DSL operating system. Look at Tiny Cores Web Page."
i've heard of this distro and have been interested, but isn't that distro complicated to install to hard drive?

"The developer there used to work on DSL and made a more modern version with a newer Kernel. It is bare bones at the start. But there is good documentation on how to install stuff and beef it up."
i've heard he's a really good guy. it's good to see that he continues to develop great OS's. i'll be looking to get tiny core. also, i am kind of fussy. i like to verify the images hash.

"Another Minimal Distro I like is SliTaz"
already have it. verified the hash and burnt. i am yet to actually install it to hard drive yet (i've only tried twice), but the live disk worked great. this is probably the most reputable light distro at the time. i've heard alot of good thing about this.

"I don't know your system specs."
i have several computers, but this latest one that i have been "toying" with has a pentium II with only 192mb ram. this "light distro sampling" hobby of mine has been ongoing for a while anyhow. i think it's good to know how to use a light distro. i know how easy ubuntu is to use. there's alot less challenges to it. when you use dsl reasonably proficiently, you're probably pretty good at using the terminal.

"Go for the cooking releases."
is that a "build yourself" version? i actually have four versions of the ubuntu minimalist versions. i tried to build to it using command prompts i found on a tutorial. i was following it step by step. then i got some kind of error. with that kind of thing, one error and it's "game over".

"It is as fast as DSL and would run on my IBM 390E 366 mhz, 128 mb ram laptop pretty snappy like."
lol, you don't say. i've got one of those. i was able to run "dream linux" on it from the disk, and a couple of others. the hard drive was locked, so i need another hard drive to install win98 and update the bios so that i can do more with it.

"If ya got the time and cds that is."
got plenty of those, rok. i consider burning distros on the disks a smart investment.

"Both those distros are supported and have a vibrant community also."
being somewhat a newbie, this would be important to me.

"P.S. I never have tried Vector yet. But I now have newer gear than I used to have also."
vector has been elusive. i could install it, but some kind of error, or display malfunction would happen. there's been ups and downs with it, but i am just not familiar enough with it yet.

i'll give tiny core some more google and investigation (and check out the link). i need to get ahold of the hash too. i do want to get that on a hard drive though, and i'm not kidding.
thanks for the reply.

[rokytnji]

"Go for the cooking releases."
is that a "build yourself" version?

No. It is prebuilt but is called cooking instead of testing version.

Since, like me. You play with older gear. Let me make a small suggestion that may save you some time. I have 2 favorite PCMCIA Wirekess cardbus I like to use when a old Laptop has no wireless. I like the Dlink WNA 1330 and the Belkin F5D 7010 ver 6 cards.

On the Belkin the ver6 part is important. It comes with a wireless G with a Ralink chipset.

The Dlink uses a Atheros wireless G chipset that has been supported also by linux kernel 2.6 for a long time.