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Actually, that kind of depends upon which stage you start with. You can start with everything precompiled for an i686, completely usable.... then, while you're actually using the computer, you can have it compiling itself for your particular architecture in the background.

Let's not forget that there are other source-based distros too :) Source Mage GNU/Linux Sorcerer Lunar Linux Personally, I've used Gentoo, I liked it quite a lot, and now I prefer SMGL, but that's just me.

Actually, I share a swap and /home partition between Linux and BSD on my Atari TT

What happens if you plug headphones into both of the drives? My first instinct is that either you don't have an analog audio cable running from your drive to your MB, or your easiest solution would be to switch the drive the cable is connected to.

Also check out transcode. I use mencoder, transcode and mjpegtools almost daily - it's amazing what you can accompish with the three of them. http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.d...eich/transcode/

Hiya Steve/Omar - yup, it's me. I've just been hopping hither & yon about the country, messing with different distros, things like that. And I say this all in the strictest waimea configuration sense, of course - so I can't be accused of topic drift :)

I understand. I hate having the windows pop up when my mouse passes. I'm using fluxbox, and it only takes one click for me, so I'm sure there's an option for waimea

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Taking myself as an example, do you mean changing /home/terry? I've never done it, but I'd imagine that you'd need to rename terry/ inside of /etc/passwd

One option would be Codeweavers Crossover plugin.

It should work fine. Linux is looking for /var (for example) - it doesn't care where /var is - it might be on your second hard drive, it might be on a Zip disk, it might be on a networked laptop, it might even be on a computer in Nuuk, Greenland. Just make sure that your bootloader and fstab are updated.

I know some of the desktop environments & window managers have a focus model where moving a mouse over a window focuses it. I forget what it's called.... perhaps "sloppy focus"?

one disadvantage to that is that you'll also lose any ROMs and other files that you might have in the .zsnes/ directory (in your case, it sounds like there aren't many - but I bring it up since there will be others reading this thread). You want to either edit, or delete: ~/.zsnes/zsnesl.cfg

I'm confused... is this a "previous story"? It clearly states that MS did speak there, but that Sun Microsystems was unable to.

I'm sure there's some way of doing it. I had sophisticated utilities for making duplexed books on my ST, 18 years ago, and they were just public domain & shareware.

I have no doubt that they helped with Mesa, I was just pointing out that xfishtank doesn't require it. now, as far as help goes, generally (but absolutely not always) --help is a newer form of the old way programs used to use flags, in this case -h --- so, you can try xfishtank -h or xfishtank --help (xfishtank -help most likely wouldn't work, because that would be kind of like saying xfishtank -h -e -l -p ) what you got, with the invalid option bit is equivalent to what you would normally get with something like xfishtank --usage ok, now about the display... remember though, that I don't have kde installed. If you right click on an open area of the desktop, a context menu should come up. Somewhere in that context menu, there will be an option to let you change the background. Now, the changes allowed to the background are things like "Color" (or gradients between two colors), wallpaper (or multiple wallpapers) and hidden somewhere in the is the ability to run an application on the background (root) window. What you want to do is select that, and then look at some of the ones that are already in the (I think there is one that will display the KDE website, for example) and get a rough idea of what is going on. You want to add your own, telling it to run xfishtank, and you want to use the -d flag [-d] clip fish, swim on root window and the -p file flag [-p file] fish swim on picture in file] Do you get anything when you do a man xfishtank? You should, because there are xfishtank man pages on the web One last thing, do a Google search for the homepage of Xglobe or Xplanet, one of the two had a good description of how to put things on the KDE root window

do a locate realplay inside the directory that contains realplayer there will be some shell scripts, if you run them, they will update mime-types and ns plugin info you can also manually enter realplay into the dialog box, but the other way is more efficient, because it will update all of the mimetypes

lol - well, I only brought it up because there was suddenly all this talk of OpenGL & misinterpretation of "flash" to mean Shockwave Flash, I didn't want someone to suddenly start messing with their kernel settings :lol:

interestingly, with my ISP, I don't enter a username or password, and their protocol is what is normally used for cable modems, when they are providing DSL service.... this caused me quite a bit of frustration originally, since they actually knew nothing about the service themselves, they were just a front for SBC.

I'm not sure how this will work from an application, but you might try to change the attributes to immutable .... here's an example root@linux:/home/terry# touch test.txt root@linux:/home/terry# chattr +i test.txt root@linux:/home/terry# rm test.txt rm: remove write-protected file `test.txt'? y rm: cannot unlink `test.txt': Operation not permitted root@linux:/home/terry# As you can see, not even root can delete it, until root does a chattr -i test.txt

Forgive my ignorance, but I just don't see how that is possible. If the printer is printing the paper on one side, then all you have to do is have it print the second page on the other side. Now, some printers have wierd paper paths that turn paper upside down and even around (laser printers, for example), so perhaps your multi-function one does too. Now, I'm sure you're pretty familiar with your printer, but here is what I would do.... 1. get a pen, and put an arrow pointing to one edge of the paper, put it into the paper supply with the arrow on top, and pointing towards the wherever the paper outputs. Then I'd print something and see if what prints overprints the the arrow, and starts at the edge that the point of the arrow points to. If it doesn't, then you'll know that you have a strange paper path. Once you've figured out which way you should load the paper, the only thing that you should have to change is the way that it is collated.... generally, if the paper feeds face down (so that when you pick it up it's in 1, 2, 3, 4 order), then you want to reverse the order on the second run-through --- if it prints face up (so that when you pick it up it's in 4, 3, 2, 1 order) you don't use Reverse.

Why is it a pain with PDF? I do it all the time, I tell the program to print all the odd pages, flip them all over, and then tell it to print all of the even pages. Admittedly, I'm using acroread, maybe xpdf doesn't allow you to do this. Depending upon how your printer outputs paper (printed side up or down) you might have to use "Reverse order" on the second run through.

Um, I think you're going in the wrong direction. xfishtank IS working for him, and shows up when he exits KDE. There is a well-known problem accessing the root (desktop/background) window from within KDE if you're not using a KDE application. Lots of these programs, such as xplanet, xmars, and the like have a flag for this, made to work around the problem. If I remember correctly, what you do is open the display section (where you set your wallpaper), there will be a command to say you want to run a program (or application?) then you'd enter the xfishtank command, and give flags to xfishtank to write a graphics file (check man xfishtank) ... this is hard for me to test, since I don't have KDE installed, but I'm 98% certain that this is what you should be doing.

yeah, there are some problems with accessing the root window in KDE - I think there is an area in the display section of the KDE control center where you can adjust things - read the man pages, you should be able to put it into a regular window just to test it.

ok, you have it. what you need to do is run man xfishtank or xfishtank --usage one thing you might want to do right off is (I haven't done this for a while, so I don't know if it will work) 1. open a terminal 2. type xfishtank -root (maybe --root) and don't use a & or anything to put it into the background. 3. if it works great as expected, great, just send it into the background with a ctrl-z & bg [return] -- if not, just use ctrl-c to terminate it.

Hmmm... try opening a terminal, and typing: where xfish this will tell you if you have xfish installed, and where it is installed --- here is an example, using whereis and transcode, since I don't have where or xfish sh-2.05b$ whereis transcode transcode: /usr/bin/transcode /usr/lib/transcode /usr/local/bin/transcode /usr/local/lib/transcode /usr/man/man1/transcode.1 sh-2.05b$ you can then use this info to modify your menus manually. I also don't have KDE installed at the moment, but there is a KDE application that finds old, non-KDE apps and adds them to the menu - kappfinder, I think it's called - I seem to remember that it locates things like xfish and xsnow and whatnot.