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Is it not possible to switch off the RAID (done by a jumper on my mobo) and just use the channel as standard SATA? If you have lots of time to spare you could attempt to recompile the kernel without RAID support - could stop it, could also be a waste of time. :D

What soundcard do you think you actually have?

It's pretty much a process of following the instructions in nvidias readme, it's long but contains the solutions to most problems.

gah, you need to manually update your bootloader when installing a new kernel rpm?? That really sucks, the rpm should take care of that for you, come on Mandrake - get your act together!!!

emacs -nw has always worked for me, or even better: alias e='emacs -nw' in /etc/bashrc - who needs all these graphical desktops....

If you have less then 64-mb ram you might have a few install troubles (certainly if the distro uses anaconda), other than that - thats a perfectly fine computer.

My first instinct for editing html would be emacs, reading what you want to do I'd reach for bash and sed, or perl.

It would depend on the app wether or not you can do this - you'll just have to rtfm for most non-de specific apps I'm afraid.

xchat gets my vote, but then I don't IM and don't pay attention in most channels - follow Ronins advice, suck it and see.

What does the program output when you try to invoke it as a mortal?

I wouldn't even run fluxbox - go for no x at all. Depends what you want the machine for, but I'd go with DragonMage's suggestion if you want anything graphical.

I think someone might have been pulling your leg....... AFAIK the lasers are completely different

By bandwidth do you actually mean physical network bandwidth?? Or more the amount of memory / processor time the job gets?

Um, do you have the necessary version of glibc? If so, I'd probably play with gdb and strace.

Have you tried running it as a script from cron - the #!/bin/bash should set the necessary variables.

I'd say try Unreal tournament and the original unreal, you can pick them up dirt cheap and you can waste a good few hours with them. Unreal looks nice in the unreal tournament engine.

I've used zone alarm for windows firewalling and it seems fairly good. It's not open source, but it is free.

The only easy way to upgrade the kernel is to find a compatible rpm for the kernel you want - be warned the jump to 2.6.x from 2.4.x can be bumpy! Just don't remove the old kernel and keep its entry in your bootloader, means you don't need any fancy roll-back mechani.

If we're being like that..... When running a job in the foreground you can do Ctrl-Z and then bg to background it too.... :D

Using the latest Java from Sun's site hasn't been a bad experience for me. Simply follow the instructions and things are up and running in no time - they provide plugins for a couple of different versions of gcc as well.

Theres a few embedded systems I know of that run on DOS, gyroscopes that mess around on the ocean floor etc...

I think they also run under dosbox, if I remember correctly it seems to run a bit better under exult than dosbox, due to the improvments mentioned above.

I'd run texhash as opposed to the ls -R step, texhash does this for you and is the way I find works best (not to say the other way doesn't work).

When I embedded SWF I used the following: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="450" width="700"> <param name="movie" value="UYBC-intro.swf"> <param name="quality" value="best"> <param name="play" value="true"> <embed height="450" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="UYBC-intro.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="700" quality="best" play="true"> </object> But that doen't validate either.

>so, why is it not mandrake's default? >5. Not as pretty as lilo I beg to differ good sir, I believe grub looks better than lilo, especially in fedora, with the X boot up - very tasty.