javaguy

Roger that. If and when Linux has a significantly larger share of the desktop market, Blizz will start doing Linux clients.

Suppose I have a sound card and also onboard sound, and that for some reason I want to use both. How do I select to which one the sound should output? Or from which one it should take microphone input? (I'm using Mandi 2008 and KDE, btw.)

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. It seems to me many of the finest minds in computer science are looking for vulnerabilities on a daily basis. Just because they don't find gaping security holes, that doesn't mean they're not looking. That is absolutely true. I play a lot of WoW, and from time to time you'll get somebody spewing the most shocking racial jokes in public chat, which is a guaranteed way to get one's account permanently banned. I always interpret these incidents thusly: Somebody didn't change his password before dumping his girlfriend. Mwwwhahahahaha.

Antarctica is a country? I thought Australia was the only continent that was also a country.

A there any known viruses to which current Linux is vulnerable?

Having now played this game for many hours, I now find it even more absorbing than I did at first. This is one of the best games ever, IMO.

Phew! I fired up ETQW last night only to discover that I couldn't log in! :( The Winbloze patch was out, and everybody had it, but Linux users were out of luck. The new patch looks excellent, especially the bot AI improvements. I hope the bots don't still ignore me when I call for a ride, request a gunner or call for a medic.

Solved! I installed without the option to copy the media from the DVD, then manually copied it myself after the installer finished. You need the pk4 files and a directory called megatextures and all its content. This game is absolutely mind-blowing. I hope they make an updated version of the Seawall Fortress map.

...or not. For me the installer gets as far as where it says "Media change." Then it says "Please insert the 'Enemy Territory: Quake Wars game disc.'" The disc is in, but when I select OK and hit Enter absolutely nothing happens. I have tried it both with the disc mounted and with it unmounted.

rpm -e javaguys_social_life

I kind of gave up on this in frustration a few months ago but am trying again. Here's where I am: I've successfully generated my VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. I open k3b and select new video dvd project, and dump the appropriate files into it. I stick an empty dual layer dvd+r disc in the drive and try to burn. It tells me fatal error, wrong medium type. :( This same burner can successfully make data dvd projects with dual layer discs. I don't even know where to begin looking. Any advice? Thanks!

Looks like it's just the demo.

Got it! I ended up copying the underlying Photo_Copy.real from the templates directory into a new Photo_Copy.new in my scripts directory. I didn't like the way it was changing the file names (I like the file names my phone assigns to the photos), so I changed copyFile(addr, filename, newFilename) to copyFile(addr, filename, filename) and as it turns out, that solved the problem. And yes, it now works the way you said it would, gets me only the pictures I don't already have.

Okay, I'm almost there! It kinda sorta works. I made my source directory /SdPictures, which is the memory card on my phone. When I click Execute This Job Now it copies...one file. When I click it again it copies...another copy of the same file with a new name (it puts a timestamp in the file name, very cool). There are lots of other files in /SdPictures on the phone, but it only gets one. I'd like it to copy all the pictures that are there. Also, there's a little checkbox next to my discovery job--what's the significance of this? I kinda suspect that if it's checked it gets run automagically at regular intervals, but I can't find any documentation on it. If that's the case I'll be leaving it unchecked, since I want to run it manually. I'm not sure that's the behavior. Does it check the timestamps?

That makes sense, since I'm using the KDE bluetooth thingy. BTW, the services script referenced above uses, under the hood, something called kfmclient, which is sort of the command-line Konqueror and does not appear to have a man page but does have a fairly thorough --help and also some good tutorials online.

Awesome. Thanks! Doh! Fixed, and thanks again.

I'd like to write a script that will automatically transfer files from my mobile phone using obex and convert them to a friendly format, but I'm not sure how to refer to anything bluetooth-ish in my script. In the kde window my phone's video directory looks like obex://[00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx]:7/SdVideos (hardware address changed to protect the innocent), but if I type ls obex:/[00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx]:7/SdVideos bash doesn't like it. Anybody know how I'd do this?

It's out, and I love it. I suspect I'll waste as many hours of my life on this as I did on the original ET. The Linux client is not out yet but will be available as a download soon. For now it works just fine under wine. Instructions to make it work. Note: Make sure you're running the correct version of wine! I installed the correct version and followed all the instructions correctly, but when I went to start the game I type typed wine blahblahblah..., and it used the version it found in /usr/bin/somethingsomething, which didn't work. Once I explicitly specified the path to my wine it worked just fine.

That's what I ended up doing but was hoping to avoid. ;) The -B option was so convenient. I wonder why it was removed.

Yeah, I looked at the man page. I don't see any way to do it any more.

The touch command used to have a -B option to set a file's timestamp relative to the current time. This doesn't seem to be around any more in Mandriva 2007. Is there an easy equivalent to it?

You guys rock. Thanks!

Doesn't look like it. The site is charishomeschool.net, if you want to take a look. Thanks again, Sam

I've got a web site that has a navigation menu on every page, so I use a JavaScript function to generate the menu using document.write statements. The pages display perfectly when viewed from IE, but when I look at the site in Mozilla or Konqueror on my Mandriva box they appear as underlined--but unclickable!--text. Anybody seen this behavior before? Thanks, Sam [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Yes. I don't remember what it is, but IIRC I found it pretty easily with the --help feature. I don't think you even need to generate a key if you're encrypting symetrically; just pick a good password. gpg is awesome for command-line encryption and managing encryption in shell scripts. My first thought would be, yes, tar up the whole thing and encrypt it before burning it to the cd. You're right, though, that if you lost even a few bits of data due to one little scratch you would consequently lose the entire thing. I suppose you could copy the entire directory structure you want to save to a temp directory and encrypt all the files individually. Or you could just make multiple backups.