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I usually search for a while to find what I'm looking for - that is to say I found gaim after searching for "linux msn" and checking features and screenshots, etc. Krusader is my fave file manager, and I found that by searching for "linux norton commander" and so on. So it really goes by what I'm looking to find. hey dardack: If you're into MMORGs see about planeshift - also free...

OK good. (well not good, but at least we're getting somewhere) The white text/red background means a broken link. If /dev/ttyS2 was a link pointing at /dev/tts/2 - then tts/2 was removed, the link /dev/ttyS2 would be bad, like what seems to have happened with you... Try "cd /dev/tts" followed by "ls -la" and give us that output... You said you bought new modems when others didn't work, right? Was that with this same linux installation? Because if so this bad link might be from one of the previous modems...

Well - that's not good Do you still have the mandrake files you downloaded? If so run md5sum on them (md5sum filename) and be sure they are what they should be - that'll tell you if they were downloaded correctly. If not, when they got burned, they would have errors. Other than that - in one way, cd's are pretty durable, in another, they scratch pretty easily. Welcome! I think you'll like mdk better than RH.

That what this place is for! Man - these chumps great, or what? Anyway - you do know that if you are in a regular console you can just type "su" and give your root password, right? Then you're root until you "exit" That's all I ever do - logging in as root is a bad idea, mmkay? Glad to see you won't be doing that silliness. Weird - I have a friend who's really getting into linux - but he insists on having only root - and doing EVERYTHING as root. Moron. Something's gonna go sour, and when it does, I have a shiney "told ya so" waitin'...

Ok, here we go (note it's better to read all the way through before starting): I'm arbitrarily assuming the new drive is hdd, capice? [you@yourbox home]$su Enter root password: [root@yourbox home]#fdisk /dev/hdd This will bring up the fdisk prompt: (hit m at any time to see command list) Command (m for help): p //(to Print partitions currently on the drive) Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3876 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 14 105808+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): d (to delete) Partition number (1-4): 1 //(Repeat to get rid of 'em all.) Command (m for help): n //(for New) Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-3876, default 1): 1 [or just enter] Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-3876, default 3876): 3876 [or just enter] //(use whole disk) Note: If fdisk or cfdisk instruct you to do so, please reboot to allow your system to detect the new partition configuration. Now to format it: [root@yourbox home]#mkreiserfs /dev/hdd1 Last Step: Add it to your fstab [root@yourbox home]#mkdir /mnt/MyNewDrive [root@yourbox home]#vi /etc/fstab //(add this) /dev/hdd1 /mnt/MyNewDrive reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1 Reboot! Now you can use /mnt/MyNewDrive!

The easiest way to do it I think is use cfdisk. Then delete all partitions on this new drive (be sure you're on the right drive!) then create a new one of type reiserfs or xfs that spans the entire drive. Then format it. The last step is to add it to your /dev/fstab. I'll head over to the gentoo installation instructions to check my syntax and be back to give exact commands...

Just a quick note: Linux uses special "files" to access your hardware. For instance, the first partition (1) on your first harddrive (hda) would be /dev/hda1 (and the second partition on the second drive would be /dev/hdb2, see? Make sure to read this quick read to get a handle on where linux keeps stuff. It explains how linux mounts things, you'll see. Be sure to read the new part at the bottom too) Have you pulled out your modem and changed slots since windows said it was com3? Because this "doesn't seem to exist anymore" message seems weird...

Without covering every directory, here's a metaphor to help you understand the way the filesystem, or directories (folders), are laid out. /, there can be (and will be) different directories (rooms) for the different people who live in the house. Let's say joe, the owner of the computer, is going to let his little sister jen use his computer. There's a room in the house for both joe and jen; /home/joe, belongs to somebody. We'll see how great this can be for security and stability later. The directory /dev (for your floppy drive), and so on. However, these are more like files that define the device drive rather than what is on the cdrom in the drive, say. /mnt. So let's recap the filesystem layout: / (and that is why we usually write their names preceeded with a / - it's the root of the filesystem.) /bin - This isn't a bin for trash! This is where system binaries are kept. Binaries are executable files that you can run, and they are for programs that run the operating system. /boot - All the files for booting up your computer and loading the OS are kept in here. /dev - All your devices, like CDROMs and floppy drives, are in here /etc - this is where the system configuration files are kept (the way the OS is setup, so to speak) /home) /usr, but they aren't allowed to alter or delete the files there in any way. - /usr/bin - binaries for apps like office or games - /usr/etc - configs setup for them - /usr/src - source code for the apps (preinstalled packages) /var - If you're running a server, the files that you are serving other people on the internet (like music or webpages) would be contained in here. OK, now onto command line fun. And it is fun, so don't leave now! It may take more than one reading to grasp it all, but a million mile journey starts with a single step. Throughout this tutorial, I will give commands in quotes; You don't type the quotes, I just do to avoid confusion between command text and tutorial text, capice? When we talk about going "into" a directory, like opening a folder in a graphical user interface (GUI) with your mouse, we will be able to view the contents of it. "ls" (for list) will list the files and directories within your current working directory (CWD), that is, the directory you are currently sitting in. When you first log onto the computer, or when you first open a "terminal" in X windows (X windows is a GUI incredibly similar to microsoft's GUI called windows), you are at the command line, and your working directory is usually /home/joe to start (if your name is joe - and for now IT IS >:| ) Let's look at the command line. It looks kinda funny, doesn't it? [joe@joes.computer joe]$ looks really funny! What this is telling you is joe is logged into (joe@) the computer, which happens to have "joes.computer" for a name. joe@joes.computer makes sense, doesn't it. The last joe is telling you the current working directory, /home/joe (it always only shows the last directory name of your CWD.) Not so funny anymore, is it? The command "pwd" will print your working directory to the screen. It will look like this: [joe@joes.computer joe]$ pwd /home/joe [joe@joes.computer joe]$ _ O.K. joe, your home directory /home/joe) [joe@joes.computer joe]$ cd .. [joe@joes.computer home]$ _ "cd .." again would take you up a directory to /[joe@joes.computer home]$ cd .. [joe@joes.computer /]$ _[/code] Every directory has two special directories in them; "." and ".." - "." means "this directory" and ".." means "the directory above me" or "my parent directory". The only exception is / has no parent directory there is no /.. to "cd" to. Remember ~, you could type "cd home" and do an "ls" just to see [joe@joes.computer /]$ cd home [joe@joes.computer home]$ ls ./ ../ jen/ joe/ [joe@joes.computer home]$ _ Directories are shown in blue and have a forward slash after their name. Executable binaries are shown in green, installable rpms are red, text and unknown types are white, links (like shortcuts) are a light aqua, etc. Now lets cover some basic commands that you would use everyday. In X windows, people often right click to select cut, copy or paste, to make a directory or link (shortcut), or to move or remove (delete) a file. Believe it or not, these tasks go faster using the command line interface (CLI)! Some commands take arguments to understand exactly what you want to do, like "ls -l". The "-l" is the argument and tells "ls" to list the files in the directory using the long, detailed format, showing you the file sizes and attributes. Quick Reference [*]ls = list directory contents [*]cp = copy [*]mv = move/rename [*]rm = remove/delete. Use "-R" argument to remove an entire directory and all of it's contents. Use with Caution! [*]su = switch user (without an argument means switch to root, the superuser/administrator) [*]pwd = print working directory [*]mkdir = make a directory [*]ln -s = make a soft link (shortcut) Examples cp song.mp3 ~ = Copy song to /home/joe mv ~/song.mp3 ~/newname.mp3 = rename song in /home/joe to newname cd ~ = change directory to /home/joe mkdir downloads = make a new directory "downloads" within the current working directory. ln -s is awesome. It works like a shortcut in windows. Let me explain how I use this to my major advantage. I use some applications (well, games ) in both windows and linux, so instead of having the files installed twice, I can link to the windows files. ln -s /mnt/windows/KlingonWOF/gamedata /usr/games/KlingonWOF/gamedata Now everytime my linux looks at /usr/games/KlingonWOF/gamedata it's actually following the link and looking at the file in windows! ======================================== DRAFT*********MORE**ON**THE**WAY!!**********DRAFT

Oh sure - toss me a RTFM ! I was just curious if anyone had a snappy quickfix... But thanks - I'll see if it helps when I'm not at work, running the risk of having to explain how the gimp fits into national network security ;D

that's very true. 98 was out in 97, :lol: , and 9.1 was out months ago, post P4 / Athlon XP 3200+ and the announcement of the upcoming Cell processor...

Haven't SCO long overstayed their welcome? As in aren't they WAY past their deadline to quit being bumbling idiots?

you mean opening an app in (kde? gnome? other WM-window manager or DE-desktop environment?) or do you mean opening a webpage in a browser? All my apps open a little slower for some reason, but my browsing is like 5 times faster (literally). Then again, in XP yesterday, my pc crashed simply coping files off a cd, so I'll take the slight speed hit to have a pc that works! PS in linux I use fluxbox which is WAY faster than kde or gnome...

It looks to me like it could be that you used to have a hostname (like mycomputer rather than localhost for example) if that changed you wouldn't have access and you'd get ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'db'

Hey there. I noticed the GIMP lets you make video. Can someone explain to me, if I had a face layer and an eyes layer, how I'd make the eyes move using point paths? Even if it isn't video but animated gif file, I have no clue how to do either. I know for gifs you need to change the mode to "indexed" from RGB to save, but to get the animated part? Lost. TIA

That'll be sweeeet

Using 'Konqueror' I extracted a .ttf file from a .zip file to the /tmp folder. From there I tried to Drag&Drop this file into '/usr/share/fonts' but I get the following error: Access Denied Could not write to /usr/share/fonts/PenguinAttack.ttf That's because you need root access to write to /usr su [enter root passwd] cp /tmp/fontname.ttf /usr/share/fonts exit Voila!

I was wondering this too: Mine says 1x even though my hardware combo supports 4x. Although the real question is "would changing it make a difference?" because it wouldn't if the software doesn't support any faster than 1x

I think you should be OK - if you write an app for an older version of KDE, the newer one should understand it pretty well. The only time *some (not all) people had trouble was KDE 2.x apps in KDE 3.x Cheers!

If you mean multi-track mixing theres ardour. If you mean just like soundforge sound editing theres Audacity or Rezound. I believe they are both on the list already. Oracle has linux clients, so we're OK there. You want to control your linux box from a win box? Or vice versa? or is it linux to linux? For the latter it's built right into to XFree86. If you're on a win box, you can run cyg-win to control a remote X session for any linux, solaris, *nix running X. If you're on a linux box and you want to control a win box, I can't help you. I never want to control a win box ;)

I love the look of 9.1 best, and for the first time everything (including my 3300C hp scanner) worked properly without extra tweaking from me! No problems. Better look/feel. Glad you joined the 9.1 crew. But then again, resistence is futile.

Thanks! My network admin skills expanded, I am now closer than ever to taking the world!! THE WORLD!!!

wow! and that works in bash programming, eh? Coooool! 8) Going to have to try this when I get home!

yeah but I think he wants an installer or something, not a web app or cross platform app.

Have you looked at kylix 3 open (available free from borland's page)? Nice, and pascal's really easy. All in all a lot like VB, but I don't hate it like I do VB because the code is easily recompiled in windows too! (using delphi from borland, only free from the kazaa gents) Ahh cross-platform, the doorway to helping others out...

OK then New (related) question: How can I make a "function" in the script so that I can run sh myscript.sh as user and it'll mosey along until it calles a different part of the script meant for root, then whether or not it was successful do something else (and you'd know if it was successful based on what it returned, hence why I said function and not procedure) For Example, an install script that would look like this Pseudo!! mkdir -a ~/.q3a/baseq3 #was is -a to create the necessary parent dirs? cp /mnt/cdrom/games/quake3/*.cfg ~/.q3a/baseq3 if [[ `call rootstuff` ]] is successful; then echo Everything Worked! Press ESC to exit or any other key to play! if ESC pressed exit else quake3 #rootstuff: #as root do this mkdir -a /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3 #was it a ?? sh /mnt/cdrom/games/linuxq3a-1.32.x86.run ln -s /the_void/games/Quake III Arena/baseq3/* /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/ return whether or not successful