Urza9814

yea...I have hte torrent...it always says 'got bad file info' and then closes.

nope...the other lights have HDD written on their cable. Maybe a power light or something...I dunno...

holy crap! sweet! I still have that demo video on my harddrive...look at it all the time...lol

:( I can only DL the torrent...and I don't have BT at the moment...aurgh...

GAH! That won't work either! WTF!

I don't have a voltmeter...and I know it's not USB or sound (headphones and mic) because those are on the bottom and I know the wires coming from them. It could possibly be a center light, though I doubt it. I also know it's not the power or reset buttons. My guess is that whatever it is, it's not something visible...so looks like my only option is speaker...lol

well...I extended it properly...got it all the way out to the pins on my mobo with all the lights and power switches and stuff...and it doesn't fit. I looked around, and there's not a single place on my case the stupid thing will fit! Now I'm totally confused.

I had a problem with my SoundBlaster Live! too...I tried changing the driver and stuff and it didn't work...I gave up...about a month later I again tried changing the driver...and it worked...so...

but...the other lights use the same kind of cord...and all the buttons work...

I tested my wire extension thingy on a light I know works...and nothing happened...so I think im gonna have to actually cut the wire to extend it...which is gonna be really annoying...lol

hmmm...I never had that happen with LBreakout...but then again im on mandrake 9.2...

Oh, and be careful with that kill button...as I accidentally discovered once, it is possible to kill the taskbar...and then you're pretty screwed, unless you already have a CLI window open somewhere...otherwise you'll have to use hte power button...and that's always a pain.

Well, I extended it, swapped it with my HDD activity lights...and nothing happened. So now I'm just confused...lol

But your pictures? Try this..

 

http://jalbum.net/install.htm

meh...I got, like, 400MB space and 7Gigs bandwidth unused on my host...I was referring more to the quality of the pics...I didn't hold the camera still enough.

It being too short may well be the reason it was never plugged in in the first place...

...none of the wires were plugged in in the first place

Try swapping it with the other blue one or lookin for a plug around there.

The other blue one is the reset switch...and this one isn't long enough to reach to the mobo.

I think imma try taking another similar plug I have from an old 56K modem and taking it apart to try to fix this. It has 4 plugs, but the pins next to the ones I want to use aren't used.

Ok...I just popped the front cover off my comp case...and I found this unlabeled cable tucked inside of it...dunno what it does, where it goes, and it's too short to reach the mobo or anything.

Here's some pics:

http://www.urza9814.xedhost.com/NonSiteImages/UCC/

they're kinda crappy...sorry...the other wire that goes in that hole is for two lights, the little V-like things on the first pic...the other wires on there are the power switch and reset switch (on the side) and at the bottom are a mic, headphone, and USB plug.

any ideas?

edit:

ah! google has revealed this:

http://www.crazypc.com/Merchant2/merchant....uct_Code=8115SL

"This cases front door has a lighted emblem and two large red lights for hard drive activity."

Lighted emblem...ok...thought it might be that...but the question is...HOW DO I PLUG THE STUPID THING IN! It's too short!

if you get an error when you try startx, you might wanna google it...lotta people seem to have trouble with that on 10.1...it shoudl start the GUI automatically.

if startx doesn't work, you might wanna check out this:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-28142-0-asc-12.html

or

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-28782.html

linux has a separate directory for all the programs...but I don't remember what it is...lol...it's in /usr or /bin or /etc or one of those...lol

hmm...try just typing in http://localhost ...I've found problems with accessing it from the computer itself on anything else...if you've got another networked comp try it on there.

to add a program to your menu, use meudrake. To run it you can usually just type in the name of the program in terminal or konsole or whatever...same thing for menudrake, just put in the name of the program.

As for the transparent windows...I know Eterm can go transparent, and you can do some things from that...anything that'll run in CLI...Irssi for IRC, you could try naim for IM...I dunno about other stuff though.

the problem is that it took him...I think a day or two just to get the distro he has now...which is one of those business-card CD distros...it'd take him a month or two to get the ISO.

I came up with a possible solution last night that I'm going to try to guide him through...I'm thinking if he makes a floppy with the network installer image, and copies all the files to another comp or something, he can install from there...but he can't find a working floppy...lol

lol...oops...I always type \ when im programming and need a / and / when in doing URLS and need a \.. :-P

well, you could try just typing in the name of the program under terminal or konsole or whatever, or under the run dialog box in Gnome. I know this will work for Wine (you might need to also specify the program for it to run though), but for servers I'm not sure, but I would recommend installing webmin for those, then just open a web browser and go to https:\\localhost:10000 and configure them from there.

Hey, my friend's got some mandrake disks that he says weren't burned from an ISO and aren't bootable, and when he tries to boot via floppy it says they aren't mandrake disks. Any way he can install from these?

oh, the comp currently has installed DSL (Damn Small Linux), if that'll help any...and he has dial-up so he can't exactly DL the ISOs...

ey, I got it working...well, I got 10.1 and it worked...now I just gotta get the network card running...doesn't sound THAT hard...

I need to know what version the kernel is for mandrake 10.1...or how to find it...

www.cplusplus.com is the best I've ever seen for learning the basics of C++...most of the books I've looked at suck...I got the 'C++ All In One Desk Reference For Dummies'...'cause I was looking for a good reference book...it's totally useless. Not only does it use pretty poor code, it's full of typos and stuff...he obviously didn't check the code at all...

Now, once you've got the basics, for graphics I would recommend 'Game Programming All In One (2nd edition)'...Very nice book...all 2D graphics, but it uses Allegro and does a good job at explaining the stuff.

You also might wanna look around on www.cpp-home.com

Aight...having even more trouble...got the install mostly done but having trouble with the bootloader. It won't let me use Lilo at all, and even on Grub when I try to add a Linux entry it says:

An error has occured

mkinitrd failed.

I'm trying to install on a standard Dell Dimension 8200, wireless Belkin network card (I'll worry about hopefully making that work later....) and a 120Gig HDD (the default WD one didn't last very long), and using mandrake 9.2

as far as I know, the only plugin we ever use is the mp3 encoder plugin for acid or soundforge (one or the other...or mebbe both....)...we don't really do much editing...actually, on our last CD we didn't do any...not sure about our next one...but yea, that shouldn't matter

I concur with Veedubb - actually, the most difficult people to switch are the Windows powerusers - those with experience and their own way of working with certain tools they know very well.

Your brother sounds like that type - except that he apparently doesn't have his MSWin machine in check...

But then, many powerusers don't...

No...he does a lot of audio editing stuff for our band...but that shouldn't be too tough...all those progs are basically the same...and he does mostly web programming...he doesn't know much about windoze...he knows just enough to use ResHacker (after I showed it to him) to edit the menus from his AIM...and write lemonade-stand type games in VB...lol