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The reason it hasn't gotten much attention, is that web games are all it's good for as far as I've ever seen. For those who don't know, shockwave is a lot like the old apple hypercard system, that uses flash. It's realy only ever used for games, and most of the games that use it are pretty cheesy.

Oh, and I also use my card reader to transfer larger files to the cards i use in my PDA, as the connection to the PDA over USB is lowspeed, something on the order of serial. Plenty fast enough for sync functions, but a real dog for trasfering 200MB of ogg's

I can answer both questions. Do they work? Yes. Mandrake 10.0 works perfectly with them right out of the box. earlier versions as far back as mandrake 8 can use them if you compile the kernel with PROBE_ALL_SCSI_LUNS=yes Anything older and you'll actualy need a newer kernel. What do people use them for? Even in windows, connecting a digital camera directly to your computer usualy sucks. They tend to be slow and buggy at best. Usualy only a fraction of the speed you can get with a good card reader. On top of that, you usualy need a special program to access the pictures, even in linux. With a card reader you simply put the card in the reader and plug the reader in. It's automaticaly mounted and you open it up like a hard drive partition. If it's a USB2.0 card reader it's lightening fast, and 1.1 is nothing to scoff at.

Well, not many folks care about it, but there's a few. I haven't heard anything else either.

THere's a couple of other possibilities The first is to burn it on a CDR, as many drives that refuse to use CDRW's will read CDR's just fine. I have a number of devices in my house that are that way. barring that, you can put the ISO's on your harddrive if you have the space, boot from the floppy, mount the iso's as disks and install away. specific directions are easily found if you search. Or, you could coppy all the CD contents to a directory on your hard drive, and use the boot floppy to install that way, instructions are easily found by searching. Last but not least, since it reccognizes your net adapter, you can always connect to a network and do a network install. Once again, just search the board for directions.

quiz was a litle dumb, I scored 7. I missed bogomips (never heard the term in my life, thought they were making it up, my computer does NOT give me a bogomips rating ever) I missed the apache question, and one other.

Pause and Print screen worked in the old dos days. You could, in most apps, and the console, hit print screen, and a lovely dot matrix printout would roll out of you epson tracktor feed dot matrix printer. Pause/break, same deal. You could use it to pause most running processes and you could use ctrl-break to kill a runnaway task in the dos console the way you can kill a process with ctrl-c in a linux console. Honestly, I've used computers since I was 6 or 8 (DOS3 or so) and I've never found any use for scroll lock.

Indeed. One of my first tasks after switching to linux was to set up a network virtualy identicle to what you are talking about. Let me give you some advicefrom the voice of experience, having done just what you are doing. 1. Don't install 10. 10 sucks for sharing dial-up as you can't have a usable dial-up connection and any other atcive network connection. 2. Take that lt modem out of your computer, throw it in the garbage, and buy a Creative labs 56k modemblaster external. Not a USB modem, not a hardware controlled PCI modem, just go ahead and get an externel. They are only $50 and if you dial up to the internet, it will be the best $50 you ever spent. 3. Last, and this is almost certainly not worth the trouble, you can buy routers that have serial ports for external modems on the router, and even routers with built in modems, but these are very expensive and the way you're doing it is probably much better.

Yup, I second that. kppp is super easy and very effective. none better IMNSHO. I was exclusively dial-up untill recently.

A friend of mine (who is still stuck on windows) is a huge fan of MMPOG's (Massively Multi-Player Online Games) Example game, City of Heroes is $50.00 + $15.00/month - 2 months free, so to buy the game and play it for 1 year, which I can do with most $50.00 games costs $200.00 I watched him play, laughing to himself about how wonderfull a deal a game that's $200.00 for the first year, and $180.00 per year after that, is. And as I watched, I realized that it's actualy a single player game for most of the game. You go and get quests from NPC's, and complete them by beating up other npc's, rescuig more npc's and don't forget retrieveing junk for npc's, all the while dodging npc's you're not supposed to deal with unitll later and you just totaly ignore all the other Players who are runing around doing the same thing. Eventualy, after many hours of running around by yourself, you may find enough people at a similar point in the seemingly single player game to form a "super group" which is a small group of Super Heroes, usualy no more than a half dozen, that play together. Nothing especialy massive about that is there? The only way to get more people is to have a very large circle of friends who also play the game. Of course, even then, you ALL have to be paying $180/year, and you all have to have internet access just to launch the game because there is no network version, so unless one of you has a T1 connection, it's not actualy possible to all play together in the same house. so you must all sit in your own rooms in your own houses, completely alone, just to play together. THe same is true of the PS2 version os Everquest. You run around all by your self, and occassionaly, when you get a quest that's too hard for you and you are too lazy to level up before completing it, so instead of playing alone, you go find one or two people who are bigger than you and beg them to help you complete the quest so you can go back to playing by yourself. Does anybody else see the problem with this? I asked my friend and he said I should just compare the hours of entertainment to movie tickets. By that logic, A typical $50.00 game that I can easily get 100 hours out of (and that's a bad game) should cost $950.00 (movie tickets are $9.50 around here) and a rubix cube should cost something like $250,000.00 I know that video game production costs money, as does supporting those games, and the servers needed to play them, but this is rediculous. You basiclay have to re-purchase the game every three months. edit**** City of Heroes only includes 1 month free, so it's $215.00 for the first year

First of al, sidewinder is a fairly large product line. What sidewinder ware you talking about? Then, what kernel? What version fo mandrake? How many updates have you installed? What other USB devices do you have installed?

phuni is right about sudo, but getting it to run by double clicking is easy, All you need to do, is open up a console, navigate to the directory where the shel script is, and enter chmod -x nameofscript.sh If that doesn't work, tryit again as root. I KNOW that will work.

That is an excelent point. When you want to dual boot with windows, you need to partition your harddrive first, then install windows, then install linux. Other wise your bootloader get's borked and life get's hard. There's simple solutions for all theother problems if you search the boards and ask specific questions.

You probably can't get it all the way down. That was realy only possible with 9x windows. XP is based heavily on Windows 2000 and the hard drive maintenance tools are different. They are faster and harder to trip, but they won't defrag 100%. I've never gotten XP to do it. In fact, the section of "unmovable files" is often large and in the middle of the drive. My best advice is to make backups of everything you care about first. Repartitioning is ALWAYS dangerous.

You need to do two things. The first one is to determine for certain qhether or not you have a WinModem. The second is follow allong 1. Is it a winmodem or a hardware modem? If you don't know how to find out, search the board here. 1a. If it is hardware controlled, skip to #3. 1b. If it's a Winmodem, find out what chipset it's built with. 1c. Take that info and go to linmodems.org and see if there's a linux driver., go to #2 2. If there is no driver, throw it in the trash, (winmodems are crumby anyway), then buy a hardware modem and proceed to step 3. 2a. if there is a driver, go back to linmodems web site and look for instructions on how to instal them. it's incredibly complicated for new linux users and rarely worth while. 2b. keep coming here for help with specific install and config problems, and remember to search first, ask second. most of the answers are here allready. 2c. If you are unable to complete the installation, which is most likely, throw it in the trash, (winmodems are crumby anyway), then buy a hardware modem and proceed to step 3. 3. Congradualations, you ahve a realy good modem. Set up is automatic with kppp. Install it from the cd's if it's not there allready, even if you're on gnome, kpp is awsome for beginners. All you need to know is your comm port. (the first serial port on the back of you computer is almost allways ttyS0) If it's a hardware controlled PCI modem (yes, there is such a thing) it could be anything, but ttyS5 is the most common in my experience. If that fails you, search the borads here. This topic has been well discussed

Niza, las idiomas apoyada el mejor. Soy seguro que por lo menos algunos personas apreciarán esto.

Before YANC glxgears~1700fps After YANC glxgears~4800fps

If you would like to squeeeeeze just a few more fps out of your NVIDIA agp video card, you should check out a program called YANC. It's on the plf mirrors. It gives you access to some common XF86Config options and also some well hidden nvidia kernel module options. It's very straight forward. I child could probably get more fps out of an nvidia card with it. check it out.

Well, there you go, just install flash and you should be very happy. also, don't install the crappy swf codec that's on the CD's. It only works for about 15% of flash displays. Go get the real flashplayer for linux and install it correctly.

Mozzilla is a better browser. Period. It works with plug-ins beter, it is faster once it launches, and i have never seen a drop down that didn't work unless it was using flash and that computer didn't have flash installed.

by default, the multi-session box is un-checked, so chances are, you are screwed. Next time you'll know

As you will soon find out, if you haven't allready, that the best and simplest way to get your modem working with linux, is to replace it with a hardware controlled modem, which VERY few PCI modems are.

I'd be happy to do a tutorial. Do you want definitions for N00bs or things we should do to help n00bs better?

Reading posts from this springs influx of new mandrake users, I have noticed a few things that I have forgotten since my noob days. there's a number of VERY unhelpful things that we almost all do, and i think we should all stop. I'll list the two that come immediately to mind as being a big deal, if you think of others, just add them. The first thing we do is say things like "su to root." Of course you and I know what that means without blinking, but not everyone does. When I was trying Lycoris a couple years back (my first linux experience) someone told me to "su to root" and I had to go back and explain that I didn't know what su OR root meant and could they please explain. Ive seen the same response form other new people here. What i'm getting to is that when talking to new users, we shouldn't use the sort of loose linux slang that is so common. It's not helpful, and can actualy make things worse. The other thing we do is give terminal cmmands with no explanation fo what they mean or how they work. Example, recently DeanGreen (a friend of mine) needed help because a re-install messed up the permissions in his home directory. He and I asked for help and immediatly were told to enter "chown -R dean.dean /home/dean" which solved the problem. Now it wasn't a big deal because I could figure it out, and I explained it to him. But nobody mentioned how the chown command works. We should use these things a opportunities to share a litle knowledge with new users, not just a chance to fix their computer.

You should be able to configure those buons through X, there's even a place in the KDE config apps if you're using KDE, to set up 've never bothered to do it myself though