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Gowator, it was quite fascinating to read your working experience on how IT company operates, or how MS Office made people dumb; I never imagine that dumb. Ah, I guess I should go and learn LaTeX in document typesetting B) , that way exporting to pre-press PDF and HTML will work easier when I plan to mass produce my docs for both public and internal consumption.

You can check out this snd-emu10k1 Wiki, and see if it can help: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1 Update: Guess you solved it now :) .

Could it be 'snd-emu10k1' instead of 'emu10k1', the former which is an ALSA module? Try to see if it works.

As a side note, Kprinter will ease your printing process for most apps on Linux: http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.ph...0in%20any%20app

Except for the vast number of maps in the retail version + bug fixes, there's not much limitation that I know of. However, it is still difficult to setup team chatting w/ OpenAL and ALSA in UT2004, you can check out the following how-tos to make it work: http://icculus.org/~warp/ut2004/ http://floam.ascorbic.com/how-to/alsa5.1 As a side note, I believe UT2004 also makes use of software rendering on low end display card: http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/february...04/index3.shtml (Notice the answer in the second half of the page)

Works here. In MDK 9.2, you need to mute "Digital Output" channel in Kmix otherwise the master volume level will be muted again every time the system is rebooted / restarted.

This is the place where you want to look for answers: http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?w...ge_id=cad-linux One of the few open source CAD application: http://www.opencascade.com/

I am using HP Laserjet 1300, it works w/ MDK 9.2 out of the box. Only tricky part is to use Acrobat Reader for CJK Printing, since KGhostview is still very buggy. BTW, a little modification is required to make CJK printing works with Xft Mozilla/Firefox too.

Icculus has released a patch for the Linux UT2004 Demo: It fixes the ping field bug and provides support for external text to speech programs: http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.ph...action=flatview

Call of Duty has no Linux Client yet, though like 1942, there is a native Linux server for it.

Take a look at this discussion: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11537

There is a new approach: you can set up dmix plugin to take advantage of the new software mixer from ALSA (but you need to get ALSA 1.0.x from source): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122076

I would rather want to see a fork of XFree86 4.4 rc2, some interesting changes and bugfix did make it into XFree86 4.4.

"Fedora Core 2 is really about two things: 2.6 and SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux, from NSA)," Stevens said. "These are two huge, monstrous projects meeting each other for the first time. We want to see if these technologies can be merged in the mainstream this way." Red Hat releases 2.6 test version of Fedora: > http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.co...i950384,00.html Looks interesting, I may try it to see how more secure Linux can be.

Wow, you are fast: http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.ph...action=flatview http://www.3dgamers.com/games/unrealtourn2k4/ http://www.fileplanet.com/section.aspx?s=97177

Short answer, try this command and see if this solves your problem: $ su # fc-cache -f -v Long answer: I am not sure about LaTEX accessing TTF, but to install TTF manually, you can perform the following procedure (assume you are using Mandrake Linux): 1) Create a new directory inside /usr/share/fonts/ where your fonts will be installed (Drakfont will create its own font directory, but I prefer to create one on my own): $ su # cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/ # mkdir user 2) Copy all the truetype font files to this directory: # cd {to the path where all TTF fonts are located} # cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf/user # cp *.TTF /usr/share/fonts/ttf/user 3) Tell fontconfig to scan any new fonts being installed in the system: # fc-cache -f -v 4) For applications that don't use fontconfig, it's a bit trickier. Both KDE-3.x and Gnome 2.x based apps use fontfonfig without problem. OpenOffice, however, does not access fontconfig but uses its own font facing/naming system; to make OpenOffice recognize these new TTF fonts, you can do this: # cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf/user # mkfontscale # mkfontdir Then adding fontpath and restarting X Font Server: # chkfontpath -a /usr/share/fonts/ttf/user # service xfs restart Notice that step 4 is only needed for non-fontconfig apps, and nowadays only a few remains: such as OpenOffice.org, or Mozilla non-Xft version (w/ no anti-aliasing).

According to Linux games and Shackernews, it's a last minute show-stopper bug delaying the Linux Demo: http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.ph...action=flatview

GameSpy has a full coverage on UT2004, with a Demo released today - but only Windows version is available yet. Watch out in the coming days and see if Linux version will get released too! http://www.gamespy.com/landing/ut2004/ http://www.planetunreal.com/ Update: UT 2004 Linux Demo has been released too: http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2004/downloads.php http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1879 http://www.linuxgamingplanet.com/article.p...4/02/13/1419210

One thing Linux users may notice, is that Firefox (and hence its Gecko rendering engine) has slimmed down in size with version 0.8. Comparing with Firebird 0.7, the Firefox gtk2+Xft tarball is 1.3 MB less in size (8.6MB vs 7.3MB) - getting closer to its Windows counterpart. Many suggests that Firefox is running faster than Mozilla 1.6, but I guess YMMV on this one. Note, to curious users, that Firefox, Thunderbird and eventually Nvu (the Mozilla Composer spin-off, development funded by Lindows) will serve another purpose more than mere independence. If the Gecko engine and XUL (XML User Interface) these application use can continue to slim down in size like the progress Firefox has shown, eventually XUL can become a cross-platform GUI itself, just like Qt, GTK, and wxWindows (more than that, Gecko is an HTML/XHTML/XML rendering engine which other GUI toolkit lacks). Firefox' improvement is a good indication how XUL can stand on its own as a cross-platform GUI toolkit. In fact, Microsoft will incorporate its own version of XML-based inteface scheme, called XAML, in Windows Longhorn. Consider XAML as a competition to Mozilla's XUL, just like C# will try to dominate against Java (more exactly, Microsoft wants its own control of API rather than agreeing on standard). Probably there won't be a Browser War 2, but Microsoft is once again competing with the legacy of Netscape, this time in terms of the technology behind them: XAML vs XUL.

Well, Mozilla is a resource hog, but others are right, what you see is cached memory, not used memory. In console, enter: $ free and you can see the actual used memory. Gkrellm will show actual memory consumption as well.

I think maybe something is screwed up with your Gnome, other than that SCIM should be working fine once the ~/.i18n file is set properly. SCIM is working fine in my Gnome desktop. One approach to test this theory is to create a new user aco****, login w/ Gnome and put the modified ~/.i18n right into place, logout/re-login, and check if SCIM works properly.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: > Smart changes in latest OpenOffice upgrade > Special 50-page PDF Supplement to OpenOffice.Org 1.0 Resource Kit

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This game probably is not known by many, but Microsoft Research (you heard it right) decided to release the source code to allow the community to bring it on in making Mods and other stuff (the license is basically non-commercial use, and that Microsoft can re-license the modifications royalty-free): http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/allegiance/...ws_6087574.html http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticl...p?searchid=6097 According to the license, porting to the Linux platform does not pose any problem as long as it is strictly non-commercial. By the way, the size of source code is huge, I am not sure it included game data or not....

Just tried to login as Gnome, no problem with SCIM (without installing gtk2-immodule) whatsoever: It is working with this setting in ~/.i18n, as I posted earlier: Just check out this screenshot.