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Sounds like a great idea to me. :)

Thanks for the advice people, me and housemate we playing with it all last night. We did manage to make the server visible from the oustide! :D But only by setting the firewall to pass everything and re-direct all the ports to the server. Not the secureist of settings. :( We are now trying to work out how to block some stuff and not others.

This isn't strictly a Linux question, but I'm hoping someone out there can help. We're in a student house, and have all our computers networked together and attached to the internet using a D-Link DSL-504 ADSL Modem/Router/Switch/Firewall. We want to run a FTP and HTTP server so we can access our files from the outside. So we set up an old spare machine with apache and a static IP address. All the house machines can access it perfectly, but we can't work out to make it accessable to the outside world. First step was to open the ports on the router we needed. We used the GRC site to verify that the ports are open and there they were. Next step was to set up the port redirection: Protocol: TCP From Port: 80 To Port: 80 Internal IP address: 192.168.0.10 (the static IP of the server) We then typed our external IP address into a browser and of course nothing happened. :( XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80 Anyone suggest what we are doing wrong?

Cool, thanks for the info. I've always kind of fancied seeing what Lindows was like but never wanted to pay for it. I've signed up and started downloading, its destined for my spare machine. :)

gFTP is really simple to use and does everything I've needed it to.

You can run anything compiled as iXXX, such as i386, i586 or i686. Something compiled for .athlon would probably run a bit better, but not that much. Your right X86_64 wouldn't work as that refers to the new AMD 64 chips. As a general rule a process will happily run anything compiled for an older chip (eg a Pentium will run i386) but not the other way round.

Ooops, forgot about the mouse wheel

I did something very similar when I installed Mandrake on my own laptop. The NTFS resizer can only re-size until it encounters data. So if you have a chunk of data 2/3 of the way into the partition then it can only re-size the last 1/3. Not the best explanation, but I hope you understand what I mean. The tools do not (at least to my knowledge) have the ability to move the data in the partition around to allow you to re-size further. I have not used partition magic in a long time, but I would imagine it has the same limitions. If you want to re-size further you will need to find some way of moving the data.

For html I use Quanta which is part of the KDE suit. Its a text based editor with syntax highlighting and auto completion. It also does project management, preview, etc... Well worth a try. IMHO IrfanView is the best image viewer ever ;). I got it to work under Wine without too many problems, and keep it around for emergancies. But I normally use Kuickshow (another KDE app), which is quite good and similar to IV in many ways. The important key shortcuts are: Page Up & Down for going through the directory F for full screen Q Exit

GREAT THANKS! :D

I've set up KGpg on my machine and created myself a Private/Public key pair. Now I want to re-build my machine but want to keep the same Private key. I tried clicking the export button and then imported it onto my laptop to test the process. Needless, it didn't work. :( What am I doing wrong?

My present computer is rapidly giving up the ghost, so I have order myself the parts to set up a shiny new Athlon64 which of course will run Mandrake once built. I had a quick look around the forum but there doesn't seem to much recent talk about the AMD64 version of Mandrake. Anyone who has/is using it, got any suggestions/warnings/etc? Also why is it that while the AMD64 version is on sale in the Store the ISOs on the mirros all say RC1?

I read about a company called Digital Networks in Linux Format, they sell new laptops with Linux re-loaded. I think from memory the article said you had to ask for Linux ot be installed. Either way you could your friend in contact with them. www.dnuk.com

My DVD+RW works fine with K3B, didn't need to set anything up. MDK detected the drive during the installation and then selected the DVD packages for K3B. That was it.

I don't know what the exact difference is but essentially its the chemicals used to make the disks AFAIK. So only a DVD+RW can use "+" disks and only a DVD-RW can use "-" disks. There are also some drives that are +/- and can therefore use both types of media. As these drives aren't that much more expensive I'd go for one of those to be on the safe side. On a personal note, I've got a DVD+RW and it works fine with MDK 9.2

Depends on the type of file. For long files like films (eg divx) I would recommend Xine as it works really well for me, but its very much a film player. For short clips I prefer KMplayer. Its a KDE frontend to Mplayer, with an arts driver for compatiblity and being MPlayer will play just about everything under the sun.

USB devices tend to be easier to get working than you might expect. I've never used a USB network interface, but you could try just plugging it in and seeing if Mandrake Control Centre picks its up. I've used solid state memory mp3 players (sadly not my own :( ) with Linux before, just plugged it in and it was automatically added as a hard drive. I guess from the fact that you're posting means its not that simple. On the mp3 side I would suggest seeing its detected at all. Look in "/dev" and see if a new device appears (probably called something like sda1). If yes then create a directory and as root: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3player (edit as required) PS If anyone knows of a portable solid state (ie not hd) player that plays ogg vorbis files let me know. I've never found one I like.

Xine has the strange habit of just freezing on me, and then refusing to anything. So naturally I try to kill. All but one entry for Xine duely die, the last entry refuses to die regardless of what I try. Also the DVD drive LED keeps blinking along merrily and refuses to open the tray. Konqueror then freezes if I try to open /mnt and the system is generally bery sluggish until i reboot it. How do I properly kill Xine in the case of a crash? Also I think that one of the things casuing the problem is that my DVD drive is fairly old. I tried setting my DVD+RW dirve as the read device (/dev/scd0) in the Xine configure menu. Sadly it didn't work, Xine couldn't find any disks. Anyone know of a set of instructions on how to change the drive used?

AMD gives you better performance for the same money.

Xmms is my favourite, but Noatun the KDE media player is also quite good in my experience. There was once an attempt to port Winamp to Linux but I don't know what came of that.

There is some weird setting in KDE which makes all the icons for terminals disappear. Just a thought.

I tried it using Firebird 0.7 and it seemed to work fine. I didn't install all the suggested plugins as I'm on a modem until i go back to Uni.

It just seems to go from bad to worse for SCO.

I still use the penguins, which are there if you go right to the end of the list.

Cool, just tried it and realised that I don't have half the plug-ins installed.