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i believe you mean: http://www.storagereview.com you had strorage :)

yeah...i haven't gotten back to trying fluxspace again yet. maybe i'll figure somethin' out...

i also figured out the imlib2 dependency while working w/waimea, and also idesk.

i'm sure it's not the notebook, because windows does it fine. i'll hunt around a little and see if i can find an answer.

woah there buddy, we weren't making any innuendo's!! :wink:

i think my problem would more likely be with the service 'Mouth'

it's very hard to do...if you have partition magic that will usually resize drives "safely", but Linux will go wacko because the partitions will no longer exist in the form it has set. so...i don't know a safe way of doing it myself, is what i'm saying. so i probably should've just not bothered posting. hey, if you installed Linux drunk, that only goes to show how easy it is to install! though i don't think that would go over well as a motto.... "Linux, so easy to install, you can do it wasted!"

congratulations SoulSe, you just caused my brain to give me a BSOD gah! now i have to reboot myself...how the heck do i do that?

i emailed the guy who wrote fluxspace, and got the following response: ----------------------------Begin Email-------------------------------------- >From Mark Harrison <email stripped>, on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:00:08PM -0500: > I'm attempting to compile your "FluxSpace" program on a Mandrake Linux > 9.0 machine. the following error(s) are being spit out during the > "make": > > In file included from BaseDisplay.cc:41: > BaseDisplay.hh:119: parse error before `,' token I just posted a new version to: http://www.isomedia.com/homes/stevencooper.../fluxspace.html I ran into stdlib compilation problems when I switched from Debian to Gentoo and from gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.2. Perhaps the new version will build for you. I also added a new module for "idesk". > Sorry if anyone else has asked you about this, but I was unable to find > an answer or a fix. There are a bunch of us at > http://www.mandrakeusers.org trying to get this working, so if you know > a solution I'll share it with them and we'll all get it fixed up and > running :) There has only been a trickle of email on this project. It would be very cool if you and your group find it useful. Enjoy. Please let me know if you have more problems or questions. Cheers, Steve ------------------------------End Email-------------------------------------- so hopefully that will fix things for all of you who were trying to get it up and running :)

actually, most allow you to turn off file sharing so you aren't sharing files, just hunting around for them :) also, they usually have one directory set as the share directory, and don't allow access to anything but that directory. just make sure the directory doesn't contain anything you wouldn't want them getting a hold of. but, keep in mind, with ANY program, there's always the possibility of it having a security hole. you can't avoid this :-) unfortunately.

i've used gtk-gnutella, it's not all that sleek and nice looking, but it gets the job done.

having a strange yet interesting issue. at work, i'm using a Dell C810 laptop, and I have Red Hat on a seperate HD to load up to work on Linux scripts. thing is, the laptop display can do 1600x1200, but from what i can tell when i am in Linux it doesn't do better that 1400x1050, and even worse, it takes that image and stretches it to 1600x1200, causing things to look odd. i.e.: gradients are no longer smooth, i can actually see the distinction between the color changes. however, under my F7 it says "Font" in blue (function key operation), so, if i press function+F7 the resolution drops to 1400x1050, taking up a smaller portion of the display (i end up w/a black border around the screen). but all the images look right again... is there some sort of an issue w/XFree86 doing true 1600x1200 resolution? if you need more info I will try to supply it. XF86Config not posted because I didn't think to grab it before swapping out the Linux HD and booting up Windows.

yeah, he's telling the truth. don't trust SoulSe. then again, that could have been another joke...'cuz everything he says is a joke......oh dear, i've gone and confused myself again.

3lade has a good point. a site that is unbiased, pointing out the difference. none of the "Windows is evil" "Windows is unstable" stuff. The majority don't care, or even know, about windows being unstable...they just want things to work, and if they work, cool. if they have to think........well crap, that's not supposed to happen! the masses see a computer as a tool, not a hobby. it's supposed to work, they aren't supposed to have to fix it. if you've seen the recent Mac commercials, you can see where they're aiming...that's where we need to aim, if we REALLY want Linux to become a viable desktop solution. there are enough sites out there bashing windows and exalting linux, but-like 3lade said-what is needed is a site which compares the two, and doesn't try to force the reader one direction or the other.

I agree SoulSe, it would seem they are trying to wiggle their way into other markets. Tricky tactics. The only time I would _ever_ start to even consider trusting MS is if they open sourced their kernel (erm..Windows). And, as the very deepest deep deepity deep depths of Hell would freeze over first, I don't see myself trusting them :) We ARE many, we aren't stupid, and we won't let you sneak your evil code into our lovely O/S. they'd probably add some code to format our drives and install windows from a remote server....those bastards! okay, maybe that's taking it a bit far. then again...maybe not?

it's the end of the world, that's what it is. quick! to the bomb shelter!!

ran into a few interesting links at the register today: http://213.40.196.64/content/4/28776.html: Review of MDK9 http://213.40.196.64/content/4/28755.html: hmm..MS Media Player 9 for Linux?????? holy... also, new virus: http://213.40.196.64/content/56/28797.html

like i said, i just started with it last night. i dunno about a slit, but you can do the dockapps and so forth. taskbar, no clue. icons: idesk is what i'm going to try out, seems that everyone using it uses idesk. again...just found it last night, haven't gotten to playing with it much yet :) (tho i'm about to try getting it running on my RH 8.0 laptop at work)

www.linux1394.org check out the FAQ, seems to be a good bit of info there.

theoritically...that should be possible. realistically...i know there are video editing tools for linux, somewhere. as from transferring from the camera to the system through firewire, hm....no experience there. but, i have a firewire also, so it might be something interesting too look up. off i go......

hm...and you have no /dev/ttyS*? did you plug it in, place the palm in the cradle, turn it on and open up MCC and check the hardware list? it's very odd that you don't have any ttyS*'s, as even if something wasn't plugged in mandrake should see the serial ports... anyone else have any ideas?

http://www.waimea.org i haven't played around too much with it yet, just discovered it last night. it doesn't appear to have the bar like in flux/blackbox-you know, where you see things that are minimized. not sure what the deal w/that is, but, ah well!

i usually built fluxbox from source, dunno why. i'm going to try idesk today, we'll see how that goes. i also found a fluxbox/blackbox type WM cailled waimea, it looks pretty interesting-as transperency built-in to the window manager, kinda neat. don't have the link w/me, so if anyone wants it let me know and i'll hunt it down....

USB or Serial?

ok, i took a look at the program, opened up the file to see if i could figure out what the deal was. it appears that on line 119, for some reason we're getting a parse error. line 119 is: string display_name, application_name; both my brother and i looked at this, and could not find the problem. going to email the guy wh wrote the program and see if he can figure it out-thats my best bet.