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Enjoy. You'll get tired of it and move to a truely powerful distro, just like I did. Just Kidding. Gentoo is great (But Sourcemage is better) What errors are you getting with your printing Paul?

Just curious, does Word save annotation info with the files even if you don't have any? I'm just wondering if maybe OO is seeing that Word put in info on something in the file (not necessarily annotation) even if you didn't use it, and OO is just being polite and telling you there might be a problem. Anyway, I'm just guessing, since I don't use Word, and haven't used OO in about 18 months.

I use Siag Office

Alsa does support the ES1371 - if you can't find es1371, look for something like Soundblaster 16 PCI Soundblaster Ensoniq AudioPCI Soundblaster PCI 64 Soundblaster PCI 128 plus, alsa emulates the OSS drivers Interesting. bsetbg and bsetroot both work for me with fluxbox

Well, if you can boot with the repair disk, you're ok. here is what I'd do: [*]Boot with the disk [*]Remount my drives read-write mount -o remount -w /devices/discs/disc0/part1 /boot mount -o remount -w /devices/discs/disc0/part3 / Note 1: you'd probably use hda1 and hda3 if you were partitioned like me. Note 2: I mount both of them read-write, since I generally do other stuff. [*]run /sbin/lilo (that's what I would do, you might need switches with Mandrake).

dmesg is what you're looking for, just pipe it to a pager dmesg | less

same with me, I use 192.168.0.100-199

Just a guess, but I'd say you might want to set your flash up like a CD or Floppy drive in /etc/fstab: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 23:55:38 $ grep cd /etc/fstab /devices/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 use the noauto so it doesn't try to automatically mount at boot (that way it won't make a difference whether there is a card in it or not) - make sure you don't use ro though - that's "read only"

dmesg | most or less, if that's your preferred pager

make sure you have the right device though, with cdrecord -scanbus Mine, for instance is 0,0,0

If you are coming straight from Windows or a Mac, things will seems slower to originally start. The main reason for this is that Microsoft and Apple have operating systems where huge amounts of tools and utilities are built into one big monolithic whole. Since they are already installed when you boot up Windows (for example) they don't need to be loaded when you run Internet Expolorer, or Word, or other programs. Unix/BSD/Linux on the other hand, tends to make programs more functional (read that to mean, adding functions - not necessarily "more functional than Windows") by adding lots of little programs, as it needs them. This slows the loading down, as it takes a while to load all of the utilities, but it gives you finer grained control, as you can generally decide for yourself whether you want a feature, or if you want it performed by a totally different program than the one assigned as a default.

If you're looking for something graphical, you might want to check out pan

I've never heard of it until you brought it up, doing a google search for "gray key" +linux brought some things up that checking mc docs didn't http://www.asp-linux.com/en/docs/guide/asp06_42.shtml If I were to make a totally uninformed guess, it would be that +GRAY and -GRAY would refer to the keypad + and - However, reading another, it appears that it would be the Page Up, Page Down, Home & End Keys Also, seeing the comment about Norton Commander, I just cast X Northern Captain, and there are lots of references to gray in the man page. Here are some examples after searching for gray from the man page: Screenshot of xnc man page In the event you've never seen xnc, here's a shot of it (I love wasting bandwidth) Screenshot of xnc (X Northern Captain) if you want it: http://xnc.dubna.su/

Well, my whole goal in life has been to be weird, so that won't start a flame war. SMGL uses a magic metaphor (Lunar Linux, another distro that split off from the original Sorcerer uses a kind of moonbase one). spells (instructions for installing programs) are kept inside a collection of spells called a Grimoire. Collections of Grimoires are kept inside of a Codex. scribes control the collections. There are two versions of SMGL, stable and development - inside each of these there are three scribes (devel, test, stable) plus any personal scribes you set up. You install (or otherwise manipulate) programs with "cast" uninstall (or downgrade, etc.) them with "dispel" look into all sorts of aspects with gaze.... and there are many more commands. here's the url for the SMGL Wiki, which will explain the different aspects: http://wiki.sourcemage.org Just to use up some forum real estate, here's the output of gaze --help: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 18:47:09 $ gaze help Invoke gaze with desired command followed by arguments. Please note that anything in brackets [] is optional. Command Arguments Description -q <empty> disable human style output alien <empty> Discover untracked files. from path/file Discover what installed a file. search "phrase" Searches for "phrase" in the long and short spell descriptions and in the spell name. service port|acronym Displays spells that provide that service. provides feature Displays spells that provide the feature. what spell Print the spell's description. short spell Print the spell's short description. where spell Print the spell's section. website | url spell Print the spell's website. install spell View an install log. installed [spell] View/query installed spells. version spell View version of spell installed, and version in the grimoire. license spell [spell] View the license of the given spell(s) license section [section] View the licenses of spells in the given section(s) license license [license] View information about the given license (s). compile spell View a compile log. sources spell List the source files for a spell. history spell Show history for a spell. sum [spell] Prints checksums. md5sum [spell] Prints md5sums. export Make snapshot of box's configuration. import snapshot Restore snapshot. section [section] List grimoire sections. maintainer [section] See who is the maintainer for a section grimoire View a text listing of the grimoire. html View a html listing of the grimoire. newer 20020521 Show available spells newer than May 21, 2002. older 20010521 Show spells installed before May 21, 2001. prune <empty> Removes all old sources from /var/spool/sorcery and removes all old backups from /var/cache/sorcery. voyeur [delay or spell] Peek into spell compilation. pam <empty> Display installed or held spells that are Linux-PAM aware. orphans <empty> Display installed spells that have no explicit dependencies on them. depends spell Displays the spells that explicitly or recursively depend on this spell. spider <empty> Validates urls for entire grimoire. spider <item> [<item> ...] Validates urls for one or more items. Items may be either spells or sections. $SPELL_SCRIPT spell will print the spell script for that spell. That $SPELL_SCRIPT means for example, gaze DETAILS divxcalc would display the DETAILS file for the divxcalc spell, gaze HISTORY divxcalc would display the file listing the the history of modifications to the spell, etc.

I've been doing this for 25 years, and I've yet to come across a computational device I couldn't crash somehow or other (including sitting on my slide rule and accidently stepping on an abaccus). So yes, Linux will crash. However, generally what will happen is that a particular application will crash, and it won't bring down the whole system like it does with Windows. Also, using SysRq (do a search for more info) you can shut down gracefully from most crashes even if they seem to lock up the entire system.

you don't want the src.rpm, until you're a little more familiar with what is going on. The source version allows you to compile the program yourself, similar to the tar.gz you had earlier. You want the precompiled version, which would just be: program-version.rpm

To get you started while you're waiting for a Mandrake user to answer: open a terminal (konsole, if you're in KDE) su to root (at the $ prompt, type su - press return - enter the root password - press return), your prompt should now be # - if it is, type urpmi everybuddy - press return (you might need to add the version of everybuddy, I forget) I'd tell you how to do it with rpmdrake, but I haven't used Mandrake for quite a while, and I don't want to get the process wrong and confuse you.

Not with mandrake. I have a similar problem with Sourcemage because /var/run is part of a tmpfs, which isn't available when apache first tries to start. In my case (which might have nothing to do with yours) I just have init.d run a script that does a mkdir /var/run/httpd

This is just a thought, and I might be way off. Since it is a 403 error, which indicates you are unauthorized to view the page, it sounds like your port 80 might be blocked. What happens if you set up port forwarding? Have your router, or your nat forward port 80 to port 8080. Then in your config files, put in computername.domain.name:8080

Maybe the NIC was working and your networking scripts were confused. How do you connect? When I was using Gentoo, I was using a router, and the networking script frequently screwed up, and I'd have to do a dhcpcd eth0 manually after I logged in. Edit: corrected typo: s/eht0/eth0

You're right. There is nothing equivalent to them. Using Office, you get to use a word processor that thinks it's a spreadsheet, desktop-publishing program, database, graphics program, world mapper, translator, etc. Take Excel, and you have a spreadsheet that thinks it's a word processor, desktop-publishing program, database, graphics program, world mapper, translator, etc. Sorry, but I don't care for programs that try to be everything to everyone. I might like to read the occasional book in the bathroom, but I'd rather bring the book into the bathroom than have a forest, a paper mill, a writing and editorial staff, publishing facilities and a fully stocked library as an integral part of my bathroom. In the same way, give me modular programs over monolithic ones any day.

You'd think so. However, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration. Gentoo is a victim of its own success. Gentoo users flock out to all sorts of other boards, raving about how great it is. Naturally, that attracts a lot of people. Gentoo only has one board, basically. Other distros have hundreds to thousands, in many languages, with a lot of crossover between distros due to the similarity between RPM based distributions, for example. So, while people might ask the same question without using the search function 4,500 times a month to solve a Mandrake query, that 4,500 might be split across 700 different forums - with Gentoo, all 4,500 would be asked in one place. Plus, I got the impression from lurking on their board that a lot of them would be just as much at home being a Windows script-kiddie, thinking they are L337, when judging from the quality of their 'answers' they could barely find their own posterior with both hands. Personally, I think SMGL is more 'advanced' than Gentoo in many respects, but the crew is a lot friendlier. The base is much smaller, and they don't really care - they want to help, not to advertise. With that said, I think the best choice for support would be none other than MUB, it is, without a doubt, one of the best resources I've encountered, even if you do occasionally have to filter out some major weirdness.

Where's the "I really couldn't care, one way or the other" selection?

Over the years, I've used Caldera, Definite, Turbo, FreeBSD, Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake, NetBSD, Debian, Gentoo, Sorcerer, Lunar and Sourcemage. I've actually used more than those, in the sense of having installed distributions to test them for a couple of months. All of them have been useful in their own ways. I personally prefer SourceMage, Debian, and NetBSD. However, I generally recommend Mandrake to my friends that want to switch to Linux. I'm not a big fan of Gentoo like the others here are. I used it for about five months, and I liked it, but it never really took with me. Perhaps because I compared portage to ports on my BSD machines. Other things that Gentoo users like to rave about, like "USE" are to me just poor wannabes of features like "Optional Depends" in Sourcemage. Not to mention the fact that SMGL users in IRC and on the forums are about 1800% friendlier than those in the Gentoo equivalents (just my personal opinion).

I can't answer, but just some words of encouragement. Sourcemage searches for the fastest mirror when downloading using netselect, so I'm sure the option (or something similar) is also available in your Gentoo configuration. Edit: Or maybe not at the moment, considering tyme's post.