neocytrix

Im kind of a noob, how do I try the sources? lol

Thanks

-Neocytrix

Hello everyone,

I go to the install software program and choose what I want to install, however, when it asks me for a cd I put in the cd it asks for and when I do I press okay and it waits a second and it tells me to put in the same CD, almost as if it thinks I didn't just put it in.

Anything helps

-neocytrix

Im having quite a few problems with installing stuff, ect. Im going to re-install mandrake this weekend, thanks for your help, this should solve the problem because the problem is only recent and it started off fine.

Thanks for taking the time to test that for me and everything, its greatly appreciated.

-Neocytrix :D

Okay new info, I can ping www.google.com without a problem and I can log onto one of my friends SSH server, but my friend can't ping me and I can't ping him, that goes for another friend that uses Windows to.

-neocytrix

Thanks for the :D

We are both on broadband lines so our IP doesn't change, im going to PM you the IP's instead of put them out so the public can't see them.

-neocytrix

Yeah that doesn't work either, I haven't successfully done it to any IP except 127.0.0.1.

-neocytrix

Hello everyone,

I have been having a wierd problem, im not sure if its my portscanner(s) or my internet settings. I have tested both nmap and portscan and both are having problems scanning, when I use nmap to scan my friend's IP (he isn't using a firewall or anything like that) nmap comes up with the following error:

Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 12.062 seconds

The other program portscan doesn't scan it at all.

however, im not sure if the problem is the portscanners because I can't ping his IP either and I am able to ping 127.0.0.1 with both of them just fine. I don't have any idea what to do, anything helps.

-neocytrix

nmap owns :D Thanks!

-Neocytrix B)

If it comes back, try leaving it on, but disconnect from the internet (just guessing you are always on). See if it still happens... just a hunch..

Thats also what I would do, I have heard that its actually better for the computer because bootup is the hardest time for the computer, I don't know if thats true for sure, but I have never had a problem with leaving it on, and unless you can't for some reason, I would start to leave it on at night and just reboot it once a day.

-Neocytrix

I have used both, havent had a problem with either of them. I would have to say I like intel better because my intel is faster than the AMD I used before lol.

lol I think its clear that building your own is the best way to go, and yes you can do it! They make it a lot easyer than you think, buy a case, motherboard, processor), RAM, optical drives, and anything that you need that your motherboard might not have (video card, sound card, NIC card, USB ). My motherboard (ASUS P4C 800 delux) came with everything besides the video card.

-Neocytrix

Im using 10.0.

Hello everyone,

I have recently had problems mounting my cdrom, I go to file:/mnt/cdrom and it doesn't have anything there even though theres a cd in it. I try to create a new device from the desktop and I can't get it to mount. However, KsCD can stil play cd's that are in the cdrom.

-Neocytrix

Kool,  So if we wanted to rid the world of viruses. wouldn't it be smart for all to use Linux of some type or another???  sounds like a no brainer really.

 

Neemoe

B)

It really isn't a no brainer, people still can create viruses for linux, but are you going to work hard making a program to destroy the small amount of linux computers or the HUGE amount of Microsoft systems, if your going to work hard to make a virus, you want it to effect the most people, and thats why most viruses are for Windows computers

-Neocytrix

Hello,

Does anyone know any good portscanners, I have one but it seems to only be able to scan linux machines, is there one that can do both linux and windows?

-Neocytrix

Im not even going to bother I hate Windows and NTFS lol. hehe my school still uses NTFS so I just pop in the knoppix CD and have no restrictions or anything from there, and they use fat32 :D

Hello,

I have a quick question, how would I make a shell script that, when ran would make a perl file. Exampe: If I wanted to make a shell script that would make a perl file which said "hello" when ran. Thanks!

-Neocytrix

Nope its NTFS.

Hello,

I tried to make a shell script that wrote a folder to /mnt/windows and it said that it was read only. Is there any way to make it so you can write to the windows drive?

-Neocytrix

No I thats not the problem, lilo is still working the same way it was I just hit somthing with the xserver stuff I didn't mean to and now its automaticly starting linux in text mode, lilo is working the same way it always has.

-Neocytrix

Hey everyone!

I was fooling around with the looknfeel in mandrake and now when linux starts it starts in text mode, I have to log in as admin and type kdm to start the graphical environment. How do I get this setting back to default? I can't remember what I changed

-Neocytrix

Hello again,

I was wondering if there are any perl programmers out there that would know how to make text a different color. Example

print "this is a test";

How would I make the words "this is a test" a different color? Is there a way?

-Neocytrix

I like KDE way better than GNOME.

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know any good desktop environments besides KDE or GNOME?

-Neocytrix