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  1. well, its possible, although not likely... if I run into any roadblocks, I'll post on mub with my mandriva box...! Its just that I've always read that the debian installer was not the easiest.
  2. I guess maybe I'll try a debian system. This is gonna be on my win2k box as a dual-boot. Like I mentioned before, I'm taking some online university courses, so I need to keep my working win2k system. I'll be sure to backup my current work (MS project files, etc) before attempting to install debian. I'll stop asking questions here. When I get to the point of actually doing it, I'll post in other linux distros... oh yeah, debian installs are not known for "trashing" a windows install are they ? :o i have 2 hard drives in my windows box, but I don't know much about MBRs and all that stuff...
  3. tyme, very good summation of the differences... Since all my linux experience is with "point" releases, I'm all fired up to try a rolling release. When I said before, that I would install a rolling release on my win2k box cuz I didn't use win2k anymore - I forgot that I'm taking a few "distance education" courses (online university courses) that require winblows (I'm currently taking a project management class, and have to use MS Project). And upcoming courses will also require winblows, I'm sure - like Dreamweaver, etc... Anyway, I hate to turn this into a "what distro should I use" thread... everyone's tired of those. So, what distro should I use...? :D Ha, just kidding... but I am interested in the major diffs (if any) between the rolling releases. I mean, how do the installers compare (the easier the better), how about the pkg mgmt (also the easier the better)... blah blah... thanks !! what are all the rolling releases? debian, gentoo, and arch? (and is it like "archie' or is it like "ark") ?? edit: gowator, also a good summation. I was posting this before seeing your post.
  4. I think I remember doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" under FC2 or maybe FC3. I don't remember if it worked ok... If FC can do the dist-upgrade, why isn't it considered a rolling distro? Ok... now I see... as artic said before, FC is "frozen" after a while...
  5. I never heard the term "rolling release" until today - on another forum somewhere. I like the concept. One of the things I don't like about the FC, Mandriva distros, is "fixing" stuff over & over again - like mp3, etc. Its not hard, just a hassle... what rolling releases are kind of similar to mandriva 2006 - meaning how current are the packages included - kde, gnome, and all the other apps ?
  6. So Debian is a "rolling" distro? meaning it can be upgraded completely to newer releases without the need for a fresh intall? Where is Debian now as compared to, say, mandriva 2006? Is it way behind, or is it at a similar place? I mean, for the "current-ness" of the included software... I hardly ever use my "second" machine (win2k) anymore, and its still a decent machine: AMD XP2000+, 1GB ram, 2 hard drives. I'm thinking about making it a dual-boot (with a "rolling" linux distro) or just getting rid of win2k and making it a rolling distro. And keeping my "working" mandriva 2006 box, which I really like...!
  7. what are the "rolling" distros? and what exactly do they do differently...? I mean, do you just tell it to upgrade itself, and then you have the latest version of the distro? That usually doesn't work too good with the distros I have used (FC etc). what are some examples? edit: I don't care about having 'enterprise' distros. I just want to do simple "home" type stuff - browse the web, burn CDs & DVDs, mess around with my digital still camera & movie camera, stuff like that. another edit: this probably should be in Other Linux Distros. Feel free to move it... all my threads get moved anyway...!
  8. the exact same happens to me occasionally, although not very often. Using firefox, and browsing around - click on something... then *poof* firefox closes and I'm back to the desktop...
  9. I've seen some complaints in other forums about distros that most people just choose to do a reformat and a complete, fresh install when they want to "upgrade" to the newest version... This is versus distros that can just be "rolled forward" to keep yourself on the latest version... Some "rolling" distros mentioned include Debian and Gentoo. And maybe Arch...? I have limited distro experience (RH 9, FC 2,3 & 4, and Mandriva 2006), and I've always just reformatted, and done a fresh install when I wanted to upgrade to the newest version... With the fresh installs, you have to keep 'fixing' things again (things that don't work 'out of the box'). I was looking for some comments about the distros that can be "rolled forward" without needing complete, fresh installs. Maybe I should try one...
  10. turns out all it was is that you have to remove the eth1394 module..
  11. thanks, I added it to /etc/modules. I may have to buy another firewire card for my win2k box, there's gotta be some freebie windows progs out there that work easier...
  12. still can't capture or even see any video on my monitor. So any help appreciated... also, I have to do a modprobe raw1394 after every reboot... how do I get it to always be loaded...?
  13. I can't even get kino to capture video from my panasonic video camera.... and I'm getting no help in my thread... but I came across this Linux Journal article a few days ago about exporting from kino to record DVDs. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8413
  14. ok, I made some progress. I did a modprobe raw1394, and modprobe dv1394, and now I am a little bit further along... the AV/C part of kino now will control playback on my camera, and kino also knows now what camera I have... still playing around with it...
  15. Ok, HardDrake shows the firewire controller and "ohci1394" for the module. Shouldn't kino know what to do? In kino preferences, what should be marked under the Capture tab and the IE13994 tab? For Driver, there are 2 choices, raw1394 and dv1394. Neither one does anything. Under the Capture tab, DV AVI type 2 is marked, and I also tried Raw DV. edit: ok, I just noticed a kino error message..."The IEEE1394 subsystem is not responding". I have to load a module or something...
  16. I shutdown the computer before opening it up and installing the firewire card. Hoped it would recognize the new stuff automatically... I'm at work now, I'll check it out when I get home later... thanks!
  17. I have a Panasonic miniDV video camera. I just installed a FW card in my linux box tonight, hooked the camera up, and tried out kino. All I get is a blank black screen... I can't get the buttons to do anything, they are grayed out. If my camera is in Play mode, nothing is displaying on the kino screen... [moved from Software by spinynorman]
  18. I have both installed, and go back and forth between both. One thing I like better with gnome, at least in my case, is that it pops up an icon on my desktop when I stick in a usb flash drive. KDE does not. I generally use KDE mostly. Another thing, I don't think CDs play under gnome, if I remember right.
  19. null

    can this be done?

    hmmm... that would be nice, I'm gonna try that tonight to see what happens...
  20. null

    can this be done?

    sorry, my bad. someone else was asking a similar question just recently... Ok, I'll check into the suggestions in that thread. Not really interested in the added music & stuff, just viewing still pics with a home dvd player & TV. thanks!!
  21. can you make a DVD full of still pics, and then have your home dvd player display them on your big TV? Or would the pics look bad? I shoot my still digital pics with a 5MP camera, usually at the 'large" setting - 1024 by 768 or whatever. My wife has usually been looking over my shoulder on my linux box, while I use one of the photo progs to do a slideshow... Was wondering if still pics could be played on your TV with your DVD home player... If so, would the pics advance automatically, or would you --> to skip between pics? thanks
  22. yeah some of those are great lilnks. You hardly ever need to buy computer books anymore, there's so many good sites showing you how to do everything. This current elective I am taking is pretty easy. css isn't difficult once you see how it works. My 4th and last elective will be Javascript, which I have never seen before. I'm sure some of you guys know all about it....!
  23. i didn't know that, but obvioously that is what was goofing me up. I saw an example somewhere on the web about centering images with css, and the example used .NameOfDiv, so I did too. edit: thanks for that ID vs class link above. One thing I am disappointed in my "textbook" is that it goes into almost NO detail behind stuff. The book we are using is HTML for the World Wide Web (with XHTML & CSS) by elizabeth castro. Its one of those "Visual Quickstart" series books. Not bad, it shows you quickly how to do alot of stuff, but offers very littlei info beyond "just the facts". I bought another book, for my personal use, called Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. I haven't gotten into that one too much yet, but I have another Head First book that I like pretty good (head first java). My next course is web page design is just the same thing, but more advanced. Don't know what textbook they use for that one. Then the elective course after that one will be web graphics design. I think that course uses Dreamweaver. Hope some people here know about that...lol. Too bad I'll have to use my winblows box for that course. Yuk.
  24. ok, thanks. I got it now. Used the #heading {text-align: center} as James suggested. Works great. I guess centering images isn't as big a pain as I thought it would be. First time I ever laid eyes on css was just a couple days ago, so I suppose I just need to be exposed to it a little bit.
  25. thanks iphitus & tyme. I'll try the iphitus way later tonight. For this assignment we are supposed to be using an external css file for all formating, not in-line formatting. The previous assignment, actually the same web page design, we did all formattting the "old way", withing the html file itself. Now we are supposed to remove all formatting in the html file, and change to using an external css file to end up with the same result. edit: in the css file I think I had a .heading, instead of a #heading... I wonder where I got that from?
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