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I was just about ready to purchase a dell 8200 online but then they discontinued the 64MB Geforce4 440 GO graphics option. Now you either have to get the 64MB radeon 9000 mobile or the 32MB NV17 graphics option. Glitz.

I haven't tried the new drivers yet but I have found out that it is vitally important to make sure that any reminants of any previous drivers are properly removed before installing new ones. In particular, make sure you use rpm -e to uninstall them and do not use update mode when installing the new drivers. Glitz.

VI is a bit wonky but doing simple editing with it is pretty easy once you know how. VI is a modal editor. When you start it up you are in command mode. You can scroll around but can't edit anything. To get into edit mode you press i. Now you can modify the text all you want. Pressing ESC will exit edit mode and go back to command mode. Once you have modified the text to your satisfaction you can write it back to the file by issuing the write command. Press :w <ENTER>. To exit issue the exit command by pressing :q <ENTER>. If you made modifications but don't want to save them then the program will not let you exit this way (as a precaution against losing your changes). In this case you have to type :q! <ENTER> in order to exit. Once you've used it for a bit you'll get used to it. Glitz. PS. I don't really like it much either but it gets the job done.

xgamma doesn't store any settings (as far as I know). You have to run it each time you reboot the computer. There may be a way to invoke it in the XF86Config-4 file but I don't know how. You can also use a script that runs at startup. If you are using KDE stick the following script in your .kde/Autostart directory: xgamma -gamma 1.2 (replace 1.2 with whatever gamma you use). If this doesn't work try adding: #!/bin/sh above that line. Oh, and be sure the permissions are set to allow execution of the script. Glitz.

To adjust gamma settings use xgamma. Type man xgamma for usage instructions. Glitz.

If you have supermount enabled then try disabling it (supermount -i disable), rebooting, and manually mounting CDROMs. Glitz.

It could be all the cabling that is disrupting the airflow. I think the new serial ata interface will help a lot in keeping components cooler. Glitz.

After doing the calculation the exact answer is 1:46:40AM on September 9th 2001 GMT. Glitz.

That's the same one that I got wrong. I suppose I could have taken the time to calculate the correct answer. Glitz.

Just for fun I tried running GLXGEARS on my 100MHz pentium server and piping the output to my Geforce 3 using SSH over a 100Mbps ethernet network. I get about 1450 frames per second. Glitz.

I have a Geforce 3 card and two 433MHz Celerons and GLXGEARS at its default window size (under KDE) gives me about 2830 frames per second. Glitz.

Let's not drag the supermount skeleton out of the closet. It's not the sort of thing you want to advertise. :wink: Glitz.

It's a shame that something like that doesn't exist for linux. You'd think it would be one of the easier games to implement since you could do it using only 2D graphics and maybe some kind of scripting language. It's not much better in the windows world either. MOO III has been pushed back yet again...the suspense is killing me :wink: Glitz.

A more advanced option is to put the unused network card in one of the computers (so that it has two cards) and then use it as a router. You set up that machine to connect to the internet through one of the network cards and then connect the other network card to your hub. Then you use connection sharing to have that computer share its internet connection with the rest of the machines connected to the hub. Glitz.

There's very little in the way of UDF support in the current kernel but I believe the 2.5.x development kernel has UDF support. Reading a UDF CDRW (ie. written by direct CD on a windows machine) can be done very easily. You can mount the CD manually: mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom or you can disable supermount, edit fstab, and put a mounting icon on your desktop. Disable supermount: supermount -i disable Reboot so that supermount is actually disabled. Edit your fstab entry for the CDRW to look something like this: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,ro,noauto 0 0 The important modifications are the udf,iso9660 filesystem specification (in that order or else you might mount the iso9660 bridging track instead of the udf track), and the removal of the codepage= specification (which causes automatic detection of udf tracks to fail on some systems). Finally add a convenient mounting icon on your desktop. Glitz.

Make sure you are holding down all three keys at the same time (eg. press the ALT, SYSRQ, and R keys at the same time). If you are doing this then it means that either your system has crashed very badly (this can happen and even the sysrq keys wont work) or the option is disabled in the kernel (it is usually enabled in default kernels). Glitz.

The file you want to edit is /etc/fstab. It is actually straight forward if you look at the file. If you list it here I'll give you a hand. Glitz.

It has to be compiled for the PowerPC processor at the very least. Glitz.

Note the smilie guys. I was being facetious. Glitz.

I know that StarOffice has spadmin which allows for adding printers to StarOffice and configuring them (SO5.2) but I don't know about SO6.0. Is there something similar for OO? Glitz. PS. I just checked out KUPS on my machine. If you select your printer on the left and click on the instances tab (you may have to scroll the tabs all the way to the right), you can then select an instance and click settings. There is a paper size setting that is displayed at the top.

That's great Paul but did you find anything?! Enquiring minds want to know... :lol: Glitz.

DOlson, just a note that in the future leave a space between URLs and the punctuation, otherwise they become part of the URL :lol: Also, how come that link isn't in your tagline? Later, Glitz.

Have you tried configuring the printer using KUPS (or whatever printer driver configuration program you are using)? Glitz.

That's great news! Way to go! Glitz.

Did you do this as root? Glitz.