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Ohh it's no one's fault (I assume) I am making the CD bootable, I burn it fine, I can see the burn was successful, I verify it yet nothing :( I have no idea what is wrong.

And of course the problems persist. I burn the images to CDs and make them bootable, yet the computer doesn't recognise them. Funny! My 9.0 worked great, my 9.1 doesn't seem to like it. I think 9.0 is good for now...

Great guys! I thank you greatly for all your answers... I might be installing the beast in a few hours. Wish me luck!

Since i finally found time to burn my important documents again, I am willing to try 9.1 (which is downloaded as we speak). But I still have some reservations. Many of you complained about several problems during installation. Eventhough I know if I ask any one of you if it's worth it you will say absolutely, I want an honest opinion that compares drawbacks with benefits and won't be formed as a propaganda towards 9. For me still 8.2 was by far the best release ever, eventhough it has become outdated for today. If anyone will plan on answering to this thread, please consider the following: 1. I heavily use LaTeX for all my documents. 2. I constantly produce charts through spreadsheets. (OpenOffice) 3. My internet usage is concentrated on web browsing and searching, and I am a great fun of Mozilla. 4. I occasionally like to play games, and Counter Strike is my all time favourite action game (Wine). 5. I have a cable connection for the internet (8.2 and 9.0 did a great job on that). 6. I do use a TV-Tuner on my computer, and I want to know if any compatibility issues arised (XawTV). 7. I love contributed to various projects here and there, so I need a stable compiler and a pretty full set of libraries (8.2 was perfect, 9.0 had some problems). 8. Movies and DVDs. Did MDK finally added support or is PLF still the only good solution? 9. Multiple CD-Roms. 9.0 screws it up when you have multiple CD Roms and needs a lot of tweaking to let local user in the cdwriter group to start burning. Thanks for all taking the time to reply to me. I greatly appriciate it.

Video is just another channel. It doesn't really have anything specific. If I am not mistaken, you can set the channel (frequency) you want it to work on and you can search for it through xawtv

I know my Gimp opened a 100MB ps file once. But I am not sure if this will work for you. Also, you can open it in a smaller resolution, to make the memory usage trivial, and then save it again. I am not sure if the technique would work though. Another cool program to try is Scribus. I am not sure, but I believe it lets you import PS and PDF files to edit like Adobe Acrobat does. Check it out

man output is not plain old ASCII It has formatting (the squares you see) Therefore the solution above should work to remove all the formatting thing. Another note... > Redirect output somewhere | Pipe one command to another There is a small difference, but it can be quite important. Check it out!

I would go with IMAP, but that's because I've been using it for 3 years now. IMAP is server based email, meaning the emails stay on the server, the user only sees the title of the email and he/she chooses what to do with it. It pretty much is safer than POP, as the administrator can do anything to the IMAP server. POP is client based. The server is the relay point. It just redirects the email from source to destination. In case the destination is not online, the POP server will save the email until the destination comes online and asks for it. The thing is... POP has no filtering inherited. You need other programs/plugins to use filtering etc. Go with IMAP and learn to use Pine! You'd never change again!

For Gnome you should probably check GTK (which is for C). GTK++ is the C++ equivalent, though I never followed it. There is also the GTK-- project, which I have no idea what it does. One piece of advise... Most Linux programs don't use C/C++ unless it's for core functionality. You can write GUI programs in almost all languages in Linux (Lisp, Perl, php, tcl, bash, etc) and it's advised to do that to implement current commands into a GUI. The reason? You don't have to play around programming, just the GUI so you can see how it works. PS: Forget inter-windows compatibility without sockets. Thank God! PS2: QT (or KDE QT) will remind you more of Windows I think to get you started

Anyone tried it? Was anyone successful? Here is the website... http://www.efd.lth.se/~d98hk/karamba/

The most disappointing thing is... approx. 50 updates so far... approx. 25 updates are MDK developed software... I agree there were many bugs discovered recently... But half the updates were about MDKs own software... Disappointing... We shoul dbe doing more testing for MDK and they should give us more time to test and report bugs.

aru... thanks for your reply... I will do the && trick... I managed to get the script up and running (finally!!!) Of course, I only have minimal error checking for all now but here is the idea... 1. Perl script on the web collects data... 2. A bash script: a. Runs wget to retrieve data b. If new data are found, the backup old marker file and create a new c. Render a new image d. Run an expect script to connect with sftp to the server: i. Use an SFTP batch file to update necessary things e. exit 3. A cron job to run the bash script every 2 hours, every day. Wow me! I don't believe I did this! Anyone want to check what it does? http://students.washington.edu/michalis/ge...aphia/guestMap/ This is an early alpha version of the website, don't do any stress testing please?

Found it... A nice little program called expect... Try autoexpect too... Both have man pages

so let me see if I got this straight... #!/bin/bash wget http://...../data.txt & process data.txt & sftp ..... data.txt & Will this do all I need to do?

So here is how I want to work... using BASH Start the script... 1. fetch a file using wget 2. run another program to process the file I got from wget 3. run sftp to upload the result Any suggestions and pointers? I know how to run programs through BASH... What I want is: How to make the script wait until wget finishes, how to make it wait until the processing program finishes and how to get sftp to work with it. I know there is delay until the server asks for a password, and there are local and remote commands. Any help welcomed and appreciated

Most of the commands tell you who is bound to a tty But if you read the man pages, you can see more details who returns the users connected for example I am not sure what w does... But check to see how they count the users

Hey greeneggs They way to get sound out of RealPlayer is to download the real player from real.com Make sure you get the *NEW* patched version. The old one ( 8 ) doesn't work with newere kernels, as it was expecting a bugged behaviour from the Kernel. On the other hand, you can download the patch, precompiled by them. Not extremely recommended but it's your choice. Please note, I did all these on 9, not 9.1

Surfbioard 4200 has several problems, don't get it. AT&T in Seattle called in the customers and replaced their 4200 with the 4220, which fixes the problems. I think the problem was that the modem would loose all information and stop working, thinking you are trying to rip of the cable company. Anyway... I never used a 4200 so I don't know. Just mentioning what AT&T was saying...

Here's the deal It works great in the terminal. But if you go further... Does not work in menudrake!!! WTF?

So I am trying to get some parameters passed on to my ATerm menu entry. I go to my old trusty menudrake... I add the extra stuff I want in it... Then ATerm doesn't start again from the menu!!! &%#( MENU! Using MDK 9 and KDE 3+

Greetings from the University of Washington (the developer of Pine). Pine works miracles, and is highly configurable with filters, autoreplies etc. Pico is the email editor embedded into Pine, so if you like Pico, you have it in Pine too.

The RPMs worked fine for me... Precompiled of course Try to find a source rpm if you really want to compile it

Pinnacle is a Standards company. It means they like to follow any and all standards out there. They are a company for professional video editing, so when they make a product for the masses, you can be certain that all their expertise was put into it. I would trust them much more. And yes, I do listen to Iron Maiden

had it for some time. Absolutely amazing! Only thing I hate, when ou change channels, you hear a little snow sound. Only that! :) Works great with XawTV and all the rest

savIRC is an exact clone written in tcl/Tk if you want to try that one. It works just fine.