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The only thing I can think of that would do this is a bad DNS server. You might call verizon and ask what DNS server you should be hitting and then make sure that your gateway is pointing to that address. Also, in mandrake I have had problems with dynamic DNS. So you might try setting your network connections to a static DNS server once you find a good one. All that assumes you know what DNS is. If you do know, stop here. If you don't, read on. All web servers have an IP address, just like your home network. They just have different numbers. Of course, trying to get to a web site by IP sucks, and is sometimes impossible. So, a long time ago, folks that are smarter than I, set up a system where each will have a domain name or URL. What happens when you enter the web adress for a website, is that your computer asks a domain name server (dns), what ip adress is attatched to that domain, and then your computer will go hit the 'real' address. If the DNS server you are using has not been updated in a long time you will find that some sites work just fine while others simply never load.

Yup, we deffinately need more info to be helpful.

:o <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What can i say, I have a relatively bleak view of existense, not that it's anything to get down about, or up for that mater, it just is. Life Sucks, get a helmet. :deal:

This is something i figured out, maybe I'm a dumb-a for not knowing this off the bat, but you have to leave the DVD (or CD1) in the drive to play. The game will launch just fine iwth no disk but it will do random disk checks and if the disk isn't there, the program simply closes with no error. As a second side note, buy the game. Get he DVD version if you have a DVD reader, and play it a lot. This game is awsome all on it's own, with the best single player mode of any UT game yet, and we should do all we can to support game makers that do native linux ports anyway. edit* it should go without saying, that you actualy need to have the disk mounted and not just 'in' the drive.

I REALY dissagree with you. In my experience, using other players with the 'RealPlayer' codecs is a waist of time. the codecs are never up to date, they never seem to play the particular media files I want to play. By having a REAL RealMediaPlayer for linux, it adds a lot of credability to linux. People in general are not trusting, which isreasonable given that people in general are also dishonest. Windows users thinking about switching to linux are often hesitent because of things like having to use something like mplayer, which IMHO sucks, to play media formats like Real and Quicktime. it's the same with Flash. There are swf codecs for mozilla that work a good 50% of the time, but it was HUGE news when they started releasing proper flashplayer for linux. this is the same.

you might also look here -----> http://www.linux.org/perl-bin/search_db?q=boot&qid=2&spp=100 just a few boot loaders.....

The current Unreal Tournamen t 2004, actualy has a native linux port. You don't need the installer anymore.

Actualy mandrake uses both sort of. the actual block devises are names with numbers and can be found in /dev/tts (new style), but thankfully, it also put's symlinks to the onld style names in there for you. So, if you want the serial port that windows would call com1, you can look in /dev/ttx/0 OR in /dev/ttyS0 doesn't matter. As for the processes, I'm not sure. Mauybe somebody else can fill in the blanks?

Right, and not all programs will call all OpenGL related libraries. UT2k4 calls the ones that got screwed up, tux racer doesn't.

wow, realy sorry I let this one get past me. let me answer your qustions. 1. you did that right. 2. doesn't matter what directory you put it in as long as you know. And I'd still change the name. the default file name is uselessly long. it's realy best to have it be just long enough that you will reccognize it. 3. yes and no. It takes you to a shell, but x is still funning on shell (telinit) 7 We'll need to fix that later.... 4. Realy sorry about this one, I should know better, "su to root" means that you enter the command 'su' which switches you to super user. If you have a root password, you will be asked for it. 5. ' service dm stop' 'service' tells the shell you want to do something to a service, 'dm' is the name of the service you want to mess with, and 'stop' is what you want to do to it. So, entering 'service dm stop' will stop the service called dm. dm is the Desktop Management service and in mandrake, it is what starts X for you, and launches your window manager, be it kde or gnome or whatever you use. When you stop dm, everything that dm started also stops and so on. It's the easiest way to kill everything graphical all at once. 6. okay 7. Yes, you are correct. Executables are run one of two ways. let's say you changed the name as i suggested twice now to NVIDIA6106.run To run that file as a general rule, you could either enter './NVIDIA6106.run' or 'sh NVIDIA6106.run' sh always works, ./ only works if the file has executable permissions. In general, you will need to use sh for the nvidia installer. Options of the format -a would be used as such 'sh NVIDIA6106.run -a' if you want to stack up multiple options, you would do it like this, 'sh NVIDIA6106.run -aneqkp' Or whatever you wanted to do. These options are specific to the program you are executing, so adding -a to something other than the nvidia installer might have some nasty effects. Just so you know, with the nvidia isntaller, -a will skip the liscense agreement and -n will force it to compile froms scratch. -e is expert and I'm guessing you shouldn't use it. 8. I don't use mc so I'm not sure. It will only work if it's non-graphical. If it is something that uses X, it won't work because X won't be running. Also, you should elarn vi. I only know 7 vi commands and I never need anything else, and here they are: if you want to be able to type, you need to got to the insert text mode. You can press 'i' or 'Insert' doesn't matter. Once you've done that, the insert key switches back and forth between insert and overwrite as normal. to quit typing hit 'esc' to enter commands, hit the ':' that's colon, NOT semi-colon to save or "write" the file, use 'w' to quit once you've saved, use 'q' to quit without saving, use 'q!' to save and quite all at once, use 'wq' 9. Notice, this one is differnt, now it's service dm S-T-A-R-T, before it was service dm S-T-O-P. So what that command tells the shell, is that you are going to muck about with a service, it's the service called 'dm' and you want to start it. The other 'service' command I know of is restart. It stops it and then starts it again. So, when you enter the command, 'service dm start' it will launch the dm service, which will start X for you, and, launch your choice of window managers and either laog you in automaticaly or bring you to a graphical log-in depending on how many users your computer has and how you have it set up.

I'm forever laughing at one of my friends. He went out and bought Star Wares: Galaxies the day it came out and promptly became an addict. He even tried buy copies for his friends and buying them subscriptions. Of course, since I was on linux, I was saved. Of course, he tried to get me to dual boot so I could play it. Anyway, nobody else got into it and he hadn't slept with his wife in over a month because he was spending all his time playing. (I should point out they had been married less than a year at the time) He finaly figured out that it was unhealthy and cancled his multiple subscriptions and stopped playing. 2 Months later he bought City of Heroes and I've only gotten him and his wife over for dinner once since then because he plays it almost as much. I don't know what it is, buyt there is something about those games that is just not right.

Seriously, tell him to buy a new motherboard. it's realy not tough to rebuild you PC and it can be a heck of a lot of fun. Just back everything up first, because the worst case scenario is that you'll have to re-install the OS. MOBO's are cheap and it's fun, and it's an excelent learning experience. I personaly reccomend Soyo motherboards for their ease of configuration and stability, and if money is a serious issue, like it was the alst time I upgraded my mobo, you might look into an as-rock. They're nothing fancy but mine seems quite stable and it was dirt cheap.

I never bother with that telinit junk. It's a very cumbersome and complicated way of doing some very simple things. All you need to install, is a shell prompt without X running. The easiest way to do this is.... 1. Download the link. 2. Change the name to something that isn't retarded, like NVIDIA6106.run 3. ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-f2 or ctrl-alt-f3 or ctrl-alt-f4........, just no f6 or above 4. Log in as root, or log in as you and su to root. 5. service dm stop 6. CD to wherever you downloaded the nvidia installer 7. run the installer. you'll probably have to use sh instead of ./ and I reccomend the command line options -a and -n. -e is nice if you have a custom setup, but anything remotely standard and you don't need it. 8. vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from there, find 'nv' and change it to 'nvidia' then save and exit. Of course, if you're just upgrading, this should already be done. 9. service dm start i know that sounds like a lot of stuff, but that's just beccause I'm very pedantic when giving instructions. And since service xx stop/start/restart is a realy common command, it's easier to remember.

1. If it was just a bunch of files, it was total garbage and you need to delete them all download correct ISO's and burn them properly. Simply copying the files from a bootable CD will NOT EVER make a bootable CD. Not yelling at you, just wanted to make sure you caught that oh-so-important point. 2. 695 and you got a "too big" error? You need to make sure you are usiong 700MB CDR's. Believe it or not, you can still buy 650MB CDR's and this may be what you have, in which case the iso's will not fit. 3. To get proper ISO's you have 2 options: 3a. Go to http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ and find the download link and get the official iso's. 3b. I reccomend however, that you go to http://www.cheapbytes.com There, you can get mandrake with the fourth CD included (which you normaly have to be a club member to get) and it's like $8.99, 11.99 after shipping. I know, I know. $3 is outrageous for shipping 3 CD's in paper sleaves, but $8.99 is super cheap. They ship ultra fast and having boght several distros from them and several versions of mandrake, I've never had a problem. Besides, the fourth CD is worth it's weight in gold anyhow.

nvidia is the only sensible option for Linux. 100% of them work 100% of the time. The only time people have problems is when it's a true hardware conflict (in which case, it wouldn't work in windows either) or when they personaly screw something up. matrox and integrated chipsets are worthless for gaming IMNSHO and driver support can be hit or miss with ATI.

I think you pretty much said it all.

Tribes2, you have to install the updates before it will run, but that's al. Deer Avenger, windows classic, you should find a copy. It's joyfull. Geometer's sketchpad. This works in Wine too, but better in cedega. Black and White. There's a known registry bug that keeps you from changing settings but the game runs fine. That's realy all i've tried lately. edit* I also think Point To Play, sucks big floppy donkey d....... It stores each game in it's own litle folder with it's own system files, it's own registry and it's own symlinks. Makes expansion packs useless.

I have an HP PSC 1210 which is a multi function printer/scanner/coppier and it is just plain awsome. HP is realy good aout linux drivers and it work perfectly in all versions of mandrake from 9.1 up to 10.0OE. The only warning I'd give you is that the stock kernel with the community edition has a bug that makes is not print without a work-around, however, any updated kernel, including the one that is included in 10.0 OE works fine. 9.0 (and probably earlier) will run it with a litle work too. The best part is that it only costs $99.95. I've tried shopping around for sales and stuff, but it's ALWAYS 99.95 to 99.99. The ink is even cheaper than some other HP printers. I've used it for around a year now and I can't think of anything bad to say about it. IT's even fairly compact. I wouldn't get it if you want to do professional image work, but it will easily do anything a home user might want a scanner to do. I've used mine for restoring some VERY old family photos from the 1930's that were in terrible shape.

RS-232 = serial port serial port = RS-232 Well, in all fairness that actualy refers to the plug itself while serial refers to the communication protocal it uses, but you can't realy have one with out the other. The only thing to worry about is that some of them have the old style wide serial plugs and but most computers these days havea standard 9-pin serial plug. But if you get one with the big plug and only have a 9-pin jack, don't worry. they make adapters for just a couple bucks. Heck, I've got an extra and if we lived in the same country I'd just mail it to you.

I also highly reccomend you skip wvdial and isntall kppp, even if you're not using KDE. as a former dial up user, I can say with absolute certainty that kppp is vastly superior to wvdial in terms of user friendlyness and ease of configuration. Ther other 2 unlikely possiblities are a bad serial port or a defective modem. If it was the port, yo0u'd probably be haviong other major hardware related problems as sinlge motherboard components rarely fail without taking their friends with them. If you're never able to querry successfully i'd take the modem bake and exchange it.

It's the same problem there though. It doesn't realy say anything about how many people use what, it says what people's browsers report themselves as. So in all that, you have Mac users runing ie6 fror mac and linux users running konq reporting itself as ie6 or running ie5 or6 in an emulator or in wine, and then you have windows and mac users running mozilla and when it's all said and done, it's a totaly useless statistic.

I would say that with SERIAL modems, it's more like 99.999% Every now and then you find one that isn't ahrdware controlled, but it's almost unheard of. USB external modems on the other hand are a different story, about 50% work, the rest are realy just USB to RJ-11 adapters.

That seems okay unless I'm missing something. What version of the nvida driver are you using, and how did you install it? You should be using the binary installer from http://www.nvidia.com NOT any of the damn rpms that are out there. And of course, it's always possible that there was a problem durring the instalation. Have you tried re-isntalling the driver?

You try to install wvdial, that works fromt he command line, but it's kind of a pain in the ass. I know this may sound like a stupid question, but are you sure you pointed kppp to ttyS0??? I can't think of a reason why kppp would fail to query an external modem. Very strange. Normaly, the only hting that would come to mind is a dead modem, but since mcc can connect you, that doesn't make any sense.

I know what you're talking about, I used to have the same problem when i dual booted. One solution is to use a different resolution. likely as not, the reason for the problem is that whatever resolution you're using is not the native resolution of the monitor. Native resolution is not nearly as big of a deal with a CRt as it is with an LCD, but it's still an issue. When you run a monitor at non-native resolution, even if it's a res that is supposed to be supported, the picture may be distroted in terms of size and position. In linux, you can simply adjust the monitors own settings directly (ever wonder what all those litle buttons on the front of your monitor are for? lol) Of course, that's screw up windows. Windows on the other hand, deals with it by automaticaly adjusting the image it creates to fit properly on your monitor if it's left properly centered and squared. The problem comes in when you dual boot. And get your problem. I found that the reason i had the problem was that i had not installed proper drivers for my nvidia card and once I had, the nvidia driver was able to handle the problem all by itself in linux just as it was already doing in windows. option 2 is to try different resoluitons and refresh rates in linux untill you find the one that fits all by itself, the 'native' resolution for your monito. Wild guess, try 1024x768 and 800x600 You could also just stop using windows, I mean, realy, do you need it that bad? someone else may be able to tell you how to make those settings stick, I never figureed out how. like I said, once I installed proper drivers for my nvidia, it centered itself, and then I stopped using windwos anyway.