Darkelve

You don't even have to feel guilty, because ATM M$ makes a loss on each Xbox sale... So it's okay as long as you don't buy Xbox game cassettes for it :P

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050202140308780

But does the site allow comments, so they can see it? And do they listen to the (rightful) criticism? That's what I wonder. IMO, it is great they even picked this up, I believe their intentions certainly were good. As to their understanding and method of testing however...

I also thought that all of these distro's offer an Online Update option?

Now why do I feel the sudden urge to take a shower...? thanks a lot! :lol:

Thank you Spiny! I already knew about this (I, erm... read Groklaw), but it's good that people know! :deal:

Don't you mean "Impartial"? Or did I misunderstand something?

Quote from http://linuxformat.co.uk/ I've got a bandwith cap, so there's no way I'll be able to download this. So this is what I've been waiting for! :)

Out of Order - 'Classic' (Point&Click) adventure game If you enjoy this game, also check out: - Flight of the Amazon Queen (on the SuSe CD's) and Beneath a Steel Sky (on the SuSe CD's) - Monkey Island Series, Day of the Tentacle (both can be played with Scummvm, which is on the SuSe CD's) From the website: You can get it from here: http://outoforder.adventuredevelopers.com/ Works: 4/5 (Playable with some minor issues) Known issues: sound does not work. Reviews indicate the sound and music in the game are bad, however, so maybe you're better of without it! :P Otherwise, it seems fully functional. Instructions 1. Download the installer from their website 2. Open a terminal (e.g. Konsole or Xterm) 3. Navigate to the directory you downloaded the OOO (Out of Order) installer cd /home/username/the_folder_OOO_is_in 4. Install the game by typing: wine OOO_full.exe 5. Navigate to the folder where wine has installed the executable: cd /home/username/.wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/Games/Out\ Of\ Order/ 6. Run the executable: wine Out\ Of\ Order.exe That's all!

I dunno. Like I said, better ask Cedega. Or Wine mailing list. Maybe I'll write the Wine mailing list myself in the weekend if I've got time. I am guessing it is because of some Cedega optimizations that sound works and game looks better. Cedega is a Wine version especially tailored to running games, with a lot of focus on that. Sound, while fun, is not essential to play the game though.

I posted a question about the fonts on Frank's (Wine) Corner, but did not receive a reply yet. I might try the Wine mailing list soon. The fonts are all in a subfolder within the Game's folder (well, at least for 2 of the 3 games), so if Wine could get to find/load these, I reckon everything should be fine. My post is here: http://wine.proboards41.com/index.cgi?boar...&num=1106594488 As for the Freeze issue, all I can say is that with regular Wine, I had no problems with freezing at all. What I did experience is that, in Windowed mode, it is a lot slower then full-screen mode. Even full-screen mode has a little lag (especially when bringing up the menus), but it's bearable. Hint: support older games has been voted 1 of Cedega's priorities for at least 3 or 4 times in the last few months. ;) If you own Cedega, maybe you could ask on their forums what this delay is about. Darkelve

Hmmm... how come no-1 is interested? :(

If performance is comparable (or even a bit worse) than current, comparable, commercial offerings: yes Hmmm... I see Open Hardware is becoming more popular... what's happening with the 'Open Bios' projects?

UPDATE There is an article about OpenOffice Base http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1758245 AND a demo of Beagle! http://nat.org/demos/ At least those 2 of my predictions seem to be promising smile.gif Hmmm... I think I'll add information like this to this thread when I find it. Looks like a fun way to follow the progress and how right/wrong I was.

shhhh... I intend to win this competition

Hi, please delete your Samba Question from this post and put it in a new post in the Networking Forum. http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=14 Regards, Darkelve Forum Moderator

Well, I am a fan of the Laxius Power series, which is an old-fashioned RPG fangame (kind of like the old Final Fantasy Games) made with RPGMaker. For LPIII, the third game, you need a Windows installtion for this to work, though. Some highlights: - huge maps - interesting characters - humorous dialogue (at times it is somewhat sexually explicit, although never over the top IMO). - Epic game; i.e. epic proportions, epic battles (with some really challenging fights!), epic mazes (some are really brain-busting...) - Free download! See www.laxiuspower.com And I just discovered they work with Wine (with some minor 'tricks')! The Wine version I use is: Wine 20040213 . Anyway, I think if you have a not-too-old copy of Wine it'll be fine. Before you start following these instructions, 2 small warnings: - It may look a little weird because the game uses a 600*400 (or similar) resolution. Which is why the instructions for hiding the window border and panel are included (since the game needs the whole screen estate). Edit: I just found out that, if you press F4, you can play in Windowed mode. This will be a bit slower though. This is why I recommend NOT TO DO ANYTHING IMPORTANT WHEN YOU TRY THIS!! This way, if you don't know how to get your screen back to normal, you Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to leave the desktop and go back to the login screen. - The fonts look funny and are awkward to read and sometimes really difficult to read. Edit: apparently this can be solved by copying some fonts to fonts folder; will try this out and report back Also: no sound - But: the game works, the dialogue works, the menus work and the savegames and load savegame functions work... other than the fonts and the resolution issues, it seems like they are fully functional. So how do you do get them to run? Well, first dowload the installers at http://www.laxiuspower.com/modules.php?name=Downloads and save them somewhere, does not matter which folder since they will end up in another folder anyway. Laxius Power I 1. run the installer with wine: wine lpu_full.exe 2. Accept the defaults wine offers; if a dialog box complains, just choose 'yes to all'... if it does not respond after a while (no more than a few minutes), just stop the process (ctrl + c), the installation will still be OK. 3. open a terminal (e.g. xterm) and navigate to the place you installed it. In my case, Wine installed the file somewhere in the folder /home/username/.wine/fake_windows/ 4. cd "/home/username/.wine/fake_windows/Games/Laxius Power ~ Random Story/" 5. Right-click on an empty spot in the kicker taskbar, go to the "Hide" tab (usually 2nd one from the left); select 'allow other windows to cover this panel 6. start the game with: wine RPG_RT.exe (!! depending on the game (1, 2 or 3), the upper/lowercase of the filename may be different !!) 7. Right-Click on the Window Border, select the first item in the menu, select the second item from the last (this is telling the Window Manager to hide the window border). 8. Maybe resize and move the window a little bit to get it all on the screen You are off to go! B) Laxius Power II Same as for Laxius Power I, only the filename of the installer is different and the upper/lowercase of the executable. Laxius Power III For LPIII: Install the game somewhere on your HD in Windows, navigate to this folder in a terminal and start the game with wine, just like you did with the other 2 games. HAPPY GAMING! :D

Looks really great! Just one remark: why is there a "Launch command" button in the taskbar? Do you think kids will really need it?? To me this looks like not so good an idea... For web filtering, maybe have a look at DansGuardian: http://dansguardian.org/?page=whatisdg License stuff (taken from http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 ):

Greed & Trickery, the sequel.

Hi Aura, I had the same problem and solved it by using Samba. There is a rather detailed post about this here: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...1025&hl=printer I used SuSe's Yast (= a configuration center) to set up Samba&the printer, so I do not know what Mandrake's equivalents for this would be. Both solutions have their advantages, just to let you know there are several solutions to your problem.

Thanks for letting me know... time to write some e-mails and letters again.

Always a good idea, whether there is something wrong or not. You never know when problems might occur.

It's not a bug, it's a feature! :) (I added the parts in bold myself... otherwise my pun would not work!) :D

OpenOffice Base... one of the missing pieces in the Open Source Office ecosystem. Also, startup time should be reduced to a couple of seconds, I read somewhere!

What are the rest of the specs? Like Ram, network card, ... ? Which brand laptop? Maybe you can find some info here: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ especially RAM is important to know.