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Very nice web site, neddie. I've just bookmarked it. Thanks.

Well, all right, let's see it then. Maybe you've got some bloody good vampyre-ish desktop background image to show us? I could use a good scare today! :D

You can install the software packages you want from the Mandriva Control Center (MCC). See these references: http://devries.mandrivausers.org/gallery2/...C/MCC2.png.html http://devries.mandrivausers.org/pmwiki/pm...vaControlCenter

Here's some more: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/freetutr.html http://www.freetechbooks.com/forum-3.html http://www.maththinking.com/boat/langCBooks.html http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/teaching/...mplyallansi.doc

If you want to try Linux, you can't go wrong starting with Mandriva. It's a great distro. Here are a few web links with tips to get it installed and configured: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration2006.html http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_mandriva_2006 http://devries.mandrivausers.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php http://easylinux.info/wiki/Mandriva

Use: urpme <packagename> Also see: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/Urpmi#urpme

Here's another site: http://www.cbel.com/free_graphics/ And after you can find them, you might find a tool like Image Optimizer to be useful: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/

I've never had this but apparently the Java Virtual Machine crashed on both your machines. Have you seen Sun's knowledge base web page on it? http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000041400.xml Do you have the latest JVM version? Were you trying to run the same applet on both machines and it crashed after that - buggy applet?

Perhaps you are thinking of something like the Anonymizer product. Anonymizer.com Google search on keywords: linux anonymizer

Terrific tip, Ian. It even downloaded the associated CSS and JavaScript files, the image files, and with the --convert-links options, it converted the links in the HTML files to local links for offline viewing. Great tip!

Slackware 2.?? CD bought at a local computer store in the mid-90s and updated by downloads from the Internet. I was going into a UNIX job with no previous background in it (except for knowing the C language) and thought I'd tinker around at home with Linux to accelerate the learning curve. It was a great experience.

Here's a couple: http://www.bashscripts.org/ http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html

You need to install the libstdc++ package. Here's a procedure that was written by arctic: How to Install the libstdc++ package

I admit it - I'm a Link Cataloger Freak! For web development topics, here's what I think is the best single-page of resource links I've ever come across: Web Developer's Handbook of Useful Links Now that's what I call a useful resource reference page! EDIT: The above web page was offline for a while yesterday. It's back now. Similar information is available at this other page of his (though I think the original one above is much better): http://www.alvit.de/web-dev/

Wow, nice different look, guys. I am envious of you folks with such creative artistic graphics abilities. I have none, and I regret it. So I salute the abilities of you graphics meisters.

Ooooh, I like it! Nice job! Thanks, AI!

Submission:

Possibly it could be a problem related to ipv6. See this post by Ianw1974 for how to disable ipv6. For further info on this, you might do a board Search on ipv6. Lots of people here have reported network problems when ipv6 was enabled.

Thanks, all. I have used most of the others mentioned, but was not familiar with bluefish. I found an rpm on Seer of Souls and installed it on Mandriva 2006. Very nice! Thanks for the tip.

Slackware back in 1995. We've come a long way, baby!

What are the most useful web development tools, tips, etc. that you've found? I hope this topic will prove useful. I'll start off with this: The Web Developer extension to firefox is an incredibly useful tool. http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ firefox download link for the Web Developer extension From the toolbar or Tools menu item, you have immediate access to info on the CSS, DOM, elements, class & id details, javascript, page structure, objects, forms, cookies, color info, etc etc. You can validate the HTML, CSS, links, etc using the w3.org validators. Incredibly useful, comprehensive set of tools. The attached image is just one view out of it's many features.

Panda: http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp

You can check that the script was called with the 3 required parameters and exit if not. This checks that exactly 3 are supplied, no more no less. if [ "$#" -ne 3 ] then echo "You must specify all of the following: username password domainname" exit 1 fi ... This tests that at least 3 are supplied. if [ "$#" -lt 3 ] then echo "You must specify all of the following: username password domainname" exit 1 fi ...

Oops, I should have mentioned the bash shell (command line) autocomplete feature. It will help avoid typos like this and also reduce the keystrokes you have to type in. Tab your way to fewer keystrokes Bash features autocomplete. Type in part of path, or command, and hit tab, and it will complete it for you up to the first ambiguity, if any. If it stops short, hit tab again to see all the possible choices. For example, in the current directory are the only two files that start with re: redhat-rpms-3.2344.3234 and redhatter. Type less re and hit the tab key, and now the line reads less redhat. Hit tab again (twice on some systems), and both files are listed. If you type an additional- and hit tab, the big long name is typed for you. Now just hit enter. The above excerpt is from http://linux4texas.com/presentations/bash1/present.html

There's a typo in the filename of the tar command. It should be: tar xzvf speedtouchconf-2.0-09_Jan_2006.tar.gz not tar xzvf speedtouchconf-2.0.09_Jan_2006.tar.gz In other words, there should be a hyphen between the 2.0 and the 09, not a period. It happens to all of us. :D