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This is what my CPU looks like, it has 1.5G PC 2100 DDR RAM. It's an MSI KT4 Ultra (VIA Apollo KT400). CPU processor 0 vendor_id AuthenticAMD cpufamily 6 model 8 modelname AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 1 cpuMHz 2131.528 cachesize 256 KB fdiv_bug no hlt_bug no f00f_bug no coma_bug no fpu yes fpu_exception yes cpuidlevel 1 wp yes flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips 4246.73 Memory total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1587941376 178872320 1409069056 0 7393280 78733312 Swap: 2006958080 0 2006958080 It took me a while to get my BIOS settings right too, but this is what I use: [*] Spread Spectrum >> Disabled [*] CPU FSB Clock >> 170MHz [*] CPU Ratio >> x12.5/x13.0 [*] Everything else is auto so, 170 x 13.0 = something in the range of 2.2GHz 170 x 12.5 = something in the range of 2.1GHz From dmesg: Initializing CPU#0 Detected 2131.528 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 4246.73 BogoMIPS Memory: 1032280k/1048512k available (2091k kernel code, 15844k reserved, 550k data, 328k init, 131008k highmem) ..... CPU clock speed is 2131.5849 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 341.0534 MHz.

and from another direction: You can create a boot floppy with just enough info to boot with mkbootdisk so, for exzample: # mkbootdisk 2.4.21 I use yard, so I don't have mkbootdisk installed - but I think it is standard with Mandrake --- since we typed at the same time. It's there in the Install - I guess you probably have to select "Expert" to get it.

terry@timestorm: /home/terry 10:53:01 $ gaze what pysol pysol: PySol is an exciting collection of Solitaire card games. Its features include support for lots of distinct games, very nice look and feel, multiple cardsets and table tiles, sound and background music, unlimited undo & redo, load & save games, player statistics and log files, hint system, demo games, support for user written plug-ins, integrated HTML help browser and lots of documentation. Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game, Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more... PySol is written in 100% pure Python. In a terminal, su, it should be there and will install after asking for the appropriate CD. P.S.: don't let that "gaze what" confuse you, I'm using another distro. You'd use urpmf pysol, if I remember correctly.

I agree, replace is a perfectly good way of doing it, except that mp3s might have twenty or thirty spaces (%20) in them. As far as writing the script, xaff just had to copy and paste it :) then, with the script, you just modify: n=`echo $fname | sed -e "s/ /_/g"` # Substitute underscore for blank. to replace whatever strings you want. Or get more ambitious, and add 2 args so you can specify what to replace anytime you run it. Then save it in your path and chmod +x it, go to the directory where the files are and run it.

You'll just be recompiling the the kernel, not XFree86. X will use whatever modules it finds in /lib/modules/2.4.21

Most NICs that I've bought come with Linux drivers and instructions. Not that I've needed them as they've all been 8139too

yes, there's rename every once in a while to ensure that you have them all and aren't continuing needlessly, but it's a perfectly good way of doing it.

you could also modify this script I use to rename "Some file or other" to "Some_file_or_other" - should be pretty easy to see what's going on and how to change it: #!/bin/bash # blank-rename.sh # # Substitutes underscores for blanks in all the filenames in a directory. ONE=1 # For getting singular/plural right (see below) number=0 # Keeps track of how many files actually renamed. FOUND=0 # Successful return value. for filename in * # Traverse all files in directory do echo "$filename" | grep -q " " # Check whether filename if [ $? -eq $FOUND ] #+ contains space(s). then fname=$filename # Strip off path. n=`echo $fname | sed -e "s/ /_/g"` # Substitute underscore for blank. mv "$fname" "$n" # Do the actual renaming. let "number += 1" fi done if [ "$number" -eq "$ONE" ] # For correct grammar. then echo "$number file renamed." else echo "$number files renamed." fi exit 0

As to what binutils is: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 21:05:40 $ gaze what binutils binutils: binutils - Collection of binary utilities ld -the GNU linker as -the portable GNU assembler ar -creates, modifies, and extracts from archives nm -lists symbols from object files objcopy -copies and translates object files objdump -displays information from object files ranlib -indexes the contents of an archive size -lists the section sizes of an object or archive file strings -lists printable strings from files strip -discards symbols c++filt -filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols addr2line -converts addresses to file and line nlmconv -converts object code into an NLM

You should probably start a new thread on this, as it will get lost in the middle of this one. Although I don't use either at the moment, I've always found Gnome to be slower than KDE, which appears to go against what most users of this board experience. However, I can't think of any reason it would be "Tremendously slow" in relation to your experiences with KDE. The last time I experienced something like that was when I was using a 100MHz PII, and there was a significant difference (still, that was with much older versions of Gnome and KDE too, in addition to the processor).

If you want a midnight commander style file browser in KDE (or any Window Manager/Desktop Environment, if you have the KDE libs installed) you might want to install krusader. I do about 30% of my work in virtual consoles, without X. In X, I jump around between different window managers, but primarily use Fluxbox. I don't even have the Gnome or KDE libs installed - but if I did, I'd be able to run most Gnome or KDE applications, utilities, or applets from most of the other window managers. Now, I don't need Evolution, I have mutt, or squirralmail, or sylpheed-claws or other MUAs (mail clients). I don't need Konqueror or Nautilus, I have Mozilla, Firebird, Opera, Lynx, W3, Links-Twibright, Dillo, Worker, Rox, emelFM, dfm, Endeavor Mark-2, midnight commander, FOX Pathfinder, and so on. Don't need KOffice, I can use SIAG Office, for example, or I can do without a suite and just use individual apps. Here's a place where you can look over other Window Manager/Desktop Environment options: Window Managers for X

Well, first, we've seen in this and other threads that you've figured some stuff out on your own, and second, you've found out how to use resources :) that's something.

I don't use Gnome or KDE. Not an editorial comment, just a statement of fact. I've used them in the past, and neither of them provides anything I particularly need that isn't otherwise available.

DSP often means "Digital Signal Processor" - which performs a variety of functions, in many cases related to audio.

Not offhand. However, it shouldn't be that difficult to write a script to read the ID3 tags in mp3 files and randomly play the appropriate ones. I don't use xmms, so I really don't know anything about its plugins. It's not hard to read, here's an example (just from my temporary mp3 holding area): terry@timestorm: /home/terry/mp310:18:33 $ grep -i rock * Binary file 08-Ten_Years_After_-_As_The_Sun_Still_Burns_Away.mp3 matches Binary file 09_-_Ten_Years_After_-_I'm_Going_Home.mp3 matches Binary file Chris1_Isaak_-_San_Francisco_Days.mp3 matches Binary file Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN, 07-Dark Star.mp3 matches Binary file Elton_John-_Daniel_My_Brother.mp3 matches Binary file Musicals_-_Hair_-_Let_The_Sunshine_In.mp3 matches Binary file Ozzy_Osbourne_-_Dreamer_(The_Osbournes_Remix_-_128_kbps).mp3 matches Binary file Ten_Years_After_-_I'd_Love_To_Change_The_World.mp3.01 matches

Well, the first one is just telling you it can't locate your Real Time Clock module (did you make an RTC module/compile it in when you configured your kernel?). the second one appears to be some sort of bug in xargs where the environment size calculation is limited to 20k. Google search for: xargs: environment is too large for exec

Ok, I'll give a little demo here: First, I'll add the user "rob": root@timestorm:/home/terry# adduser rob Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: Next, I'll add terry (myself) to the rob group, ensuring that I include all the groups I'm already a member of, or I'll be taken out of them: root@timestorm:/home/terry# usermod -G video,exim,lp,sys,audio,rob terry Next, I'll ensure that members of group rob can write to /home/rob (normally, only the owner can): root@timestorm:/home/terry# chmod g+w /home/rob/ OK, now I'll drop back to terry, and attempt to write a file to /home/rob, before I do the newgrp: root@timestorm:/home/terry# exit exit terry@timestorm: /home/terry 15:47:19 $ touch /home/rob/testing.txt touch: creating `/home/rob/testing.txt': Permission denied OK, that didn't work, I'll switch to rob (note that I don't give a password, since I'm a member of the rob group): terry@timestorm: /home/terry 15:47:34 $ newgrp - rob terry@timestorm: /home/terry 15:54:21 $ touch /home/rob/testing.txt Well, that seemed to have worked. No errors... let's check and see: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 15:54:36 $ ls -l /home/rob/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 terry rob 0 Jul 4 15:54 testing.txt Yup! It worked. Now, to get back to the terry group: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 16:06:38 $ exit You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/terry terry@timestorm: /home/terry 16:06:39 $ Now, in the future, all I have to do is $ newgrp - rob whenever I want to write something to /home/rob Note that this will also allow you to copy files from terry (wrc1944) to rob, since earlier, the permissions were changed on /home/rob to allow group members to write files, and after the newgrp, you'll will be wrc1944:rob so you'll have access to both directories.

All actions performed by a user are performed under one user ID and group ID. So, even if wrc1944 belongs to the group rob, wrc1944 can only act as a member of one group at a time. So, if you need to create files that belong to the group rob, you'll need to assume that ID (although you can also change the ownership after the fact with chown is symbolically linked to newgroup). You'd switch to rob with: $ newgrp - rob after you've done that and written a file to the /user/home/rob, a long listing will look like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 wrc1944 rob 2376 Jun 27 18:25 some_file.txt You probably shouldn't use passwords with newgrp, as it doesn't work correctly in some distros, like RH Note that you only need to use the newgrp is better, overall.

I don't use Gnome or KDE, so I'm just guessing here. Fortune is used by a number of the xscreensaver modules (and for random signatures for mail or news clients). If the Gnome control panel controls xscreensaver (or Gnome variants) and was installed while you had fortune support, maybe it has to be reinstalled/reconfigured when you remove fortune. Just a thought though, and it sounds like a pretty inefficient way of doing things.

<nod> Well, we lived there (individually - didn't know each other then) in the '80's and early '90's -- ages ago and long enough for a change.

Interesting, my wife and I have both lived in the UK and fanny was used in that way. I accept that there is another usage, though.

I'd imagine it means the same here, that was a non-standard usage up above :)

My sympathies. Does Gentoo have anything equivalent to the SourceMage gaze export? export Make snapshot of box's configuration. import Restore snapshot. If it doesn't, you might want to look into the Shivalik script http://algolog.tripod.com/postlnx.htm

Just as another comment on modules: Many times, software will load the modules and make special configuration changes (bttv cards, for example) - if it's compiled into the kernal, the software can't make these required changes.

Yeah. The profiles can be a pain. I'm playing around with the process now. I just started last night, because of comments ezroller made. It has annoyed me in the past, but not sufficiently for me to try to change it. I can open a particular page, or a blank page, but I haven't tried to get it to to open an arg yet. Here is basically what you can use, it's all in one line, you'll probably want to do a bash script up for it or something: if `mozilla -remote "ping()"`; then mozilla -remote "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)"; else mozilla; fi That's a ` enclosing mozilla -remote "ping()" if you wanted to have it open up a particular page, i.e., Google, you could replace "xfeDoCommand(openBrowser)" (you could also replace the current page by just putting in the URL (no new-window), or open a new tab with new-tab