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  1. Um, Mac OS X supports two-button mice. Plug a two-button USB mouse into a newer Mac running OS X and see for yourself.
  2. I believe usr used to stand for "Unix System Resources" and so has nothing to do with users. etc - et c fstab - f s tab (or sometimes f stab if I am feeling violent) fsck - f s c k (sometimes, fs check) mnt - mount sbin - s bin tmp - t m p usr - u s r var - var (rhyme with bar) - It really should rhyme with air, since it is various/variable, etc. But this is English, the language where spelling doesn't indicate pronunciation.
  3. I think it mainly comes down to support, really. Some of the commercial packages that run on Linux will only be supported by that company if they run on an approved Linux distribution. RedHat is usually one of these, if not the only one. A good example is WebCT, which is a popular courseware package. WebCT, Inc will only support its software on a supported distribution (and the license keys they generate are also locked like this). I can also think up FDFMerge as another example. While other distros (Slackware, Debian, etc...) might be as good, if not better, the company will gravitate to the most popular supported distribution - RedHat. After all, if all these companies are supporting their products under it, it must be good, they think. This leads to a positive spiral where the use of RedHat makes companies support their products on it which leads to companies adopting the distro, which leads to more RedHat users, which makes companies support it since it is so popular, and so on. The only way to put another distribution in a positive spiral is to make it so popular that companies will support it, and then those forces will feed each other just like the current RedHat trend. As a side note, the company I am with is currently on BSD and we are looking at migrating some services to Linux. The selected distribution seems to be SuSE - mostly because the boss doesn't like the tactics RedHat pulls (backporting, that whole CVS tree thing they did with KDE, etc). For the boss, Mandrake, Slackware, etc just don't have the corporate backing SuSE has (Novell).
  4. Ok, I got this fixed. I copied the radeon.o driver from the working XFree in Slackware and put it in the mandrake 10.0 CE install (as radeon_drv.o). Now I have nice DVI video, which means I can finally use the computer in X. I think I'll contact the driver developer and let them know that the newer builds are broken.
  5. If Slackware ever does die, I will gladly pitch in with Cybrjackle and help resurect it. I love it for server work (most everything else is so heavy - I like light servers).
  6. Bouncing this thread back up because this is a major issue, and I hope someone notices and can provide some assistance.
  7. Do you just want to rewrite easy urpmi from scratch? I could probably code a DB-backed version in an hour or so (with an admin section for editing). It would certainly be nicer than reading from a flatfile if you want to change things. I am a web developer professionally, so I would love to write this as a contribution back to the community, if you would use it.
  8. The basic scp command is: scp <remote> <local> so to move /usr/local/test.txt from box1 to box2 (while sitting at box2) as user john... scp john@box2:/usr/local/text.txt /usr/local/ Or if you are on box1: scp /usr/local/text.txt john@box2:/usr/local/ Edit: fixed the box names.
  9. I'm hoping someone has run into this before.. I am trying to run Mandrake 10 CE on one of my computers, and am using an ATI Radeon 7500 AGP board with a DVI flat-panel monitor. My problem is that XFree only outputs video to the VGA port on the board, making this setup basically useless. I could use the "vesa" driver and get video working, but it is unaccelerated, and not as responsive as the native driver. After getting frustrated, I wiped the comp and put on Slack 9.1 (knowing there are a lot less tweaks that go into Slack than Mandrake). Running XFree on this configuration got me cloned video on both ports (which is fine, I only need the DVI port anyway). This configuration was set up to use the "radeon" driver. Being happy, I upgraded the Slack packages to slackware-current, which brought in XFree86 4.4. The configuration broke after this change. As far as I can tell, the radeon driver broke (or something related did) between versions, or something. The working Slackware 9.1 configuration used XFree 4.3.0, Mdk 10CE was using 4.3.0.1, and the upgraded Slack was using 4.4. Any solutions to getting DVI to work under the Mdk configuration? Edit: The board is not a 7200, it is a 7500 (an ATI retail-package)
  10. From what I remember, the SEC usually does a decent investigation. The concern is how the judge in the case (assuming the SEC finds something worth a case) will act. If the SEC does find enough to bring a case we can only hope for a judge that will act fairly. Like Ixthusdan wrote, it is not the change of a president. Federal circuit judges have a life appointment, so they don't really care who is in office. The difficulty is finding a judge that actually is connected to the reality of the law and is not so inclined to divine something out of a law that has no basis to the law itself.
  11. I should note that MM_ functions usually mean they were generated by a Macromedia product. This prefix seems to be a signature. It might be wise to also inform Macromedia of their broken detection (especially since so many people use their products to make websites). To me it seems like they just used what Macromedia made without considering cross-browser compatibility. Most likely, they just tested it on IE. (Sigh).
  12. You can try using the VESA driver. If you get a display, then work on figuring out what driver is needed by your card (it should be the radeon driver...). You likely will not want to use the VESA driver long-term unless you are not doing anything graphically taxing, as it is a very generic and slow driver. If that driver does not work, then the problem is in some other part of the X configuration.
  13. Running sndconfig as root at a text prompt (please don't run it in X Windows) should detect the sound. If sndconfig is not on your system, use "urpmi sndconfig" to install it. -Note: I have not used the older Thinkpads for a little while, so that may not work for you (I was using a 770Z, but the sound hardware was the same as I recall).
  14. It might not run on Linux, but the servers are FreeBSD - not too bad. I know that there is PHP and MySQL support. http://www.phdcomputing.net/ <- Where I am currently working. The prices are not too bad, depending on the size of the space and what you want.
  15. Um, aren't updates a way of life with Windows also? As for the 1/2 CD of updates, loook at Microsoft's service packs. Just for the base operating system they run between 300 to 400mb in full. With Mandrake (and other distributions) this 1/2 CD also contains updates to the accompanying software. Thus, if you are going to complain about update size, make sure to apply it evenly. In addition, what versions are the distros whipping with? If Debian and SuSE are using a minor version or two behind there will be fewer patches to apply (since the newer releases are the ones getting the most concentrated work). To get them up to the same versions as Mandrake, it might be a lot larger download. Need I also mention the speed at which these things are fixed? Try getting as fast of a response with a typical vendor. (An opinion of a user of both Windows and Linux)
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