Glitz

What you want to do is stealth all your ports (make it so that they do not send out replies to requests). That way, no one will even know you are there.

Glitz.

If you're just trying to print out a form then print it out from Adobe Acrobat Reader. That's why they put it in .pdf format to begin with.

Glitz.

Ya, that's the software I was talking about.

Glitz.

Do:

xmame.x11 -help

for a listing of all the thousands of commandline options.

On my setup (LM8.1) it says that DGA requires root priviledges. Is there a group or something that I can add myself to?

Glitz.

What are the computers used for exactly? Cataloging and tracking library books or public PCs or what? I heard of a library in Australia that started producing open source library software (they actually hired a company to write the first version of the code and then released it as open source).

You might want to find out what the computers are used for and provide examples of programs that can be used under linux to accomplish those tasks.

Glitz.

I purchased and installed UT2003 under LM8.1 today and it works like a charm. Even utilizes both processors very well.

Glitz.

Don't expect any windows or DOS programs to run under linux (for the same reason they wont run on say a MacIntosh). There is a program called wine that may run some windows programs but don't count on it. Just so you know.

On the other hand, Linux comes with a lot of software that perform functions similar to windows programs. There are email programs, and internet browsers, word processors, and spreadsheets.

Whatever you do, if you need some functionality of windows, then make sure you keep a windows partition around somewhere to fall back on.

Glitz.

Hi, This is my first post and I'm new to mandrake linux... I've been trying to learn how to use it for the past couple days now, but i'm not sure what to do about this problem.. every time i try to browse through my /mnt/ dir in root, the system will just stop working.. but only for about 30 seconds. even if i do this with quick browser it will do the same thing. the only time it will work, however, is when I try to access it with other programs.. then it will work fine. Any suggestions?

It's supermount. Anytime you go into the /mnt/ directory it will scan all the subdirectories and if you have a CDROM or DVD that mounts there and there is no disk in it then supermount will take a long time before it realizes there is no disk in the drive.

If this really bothers you then the only alternative I know is to disable supermount. But then you will have to manually mount CDROMs before you can read them. This is easier than it sounds but not as convenient as using supermount.

Glitz.

what kind of front-ends for xmame are out there? i am using gnomame for now, but I am wondering how to get the non-vector games like Space Invaders to play "larger", ie. fullscreen or at least a larger window. the vector games like asteroids are perfect, but space invaders is just a screen about 512*512 maybe, in the middle of the black background.

 

er, if that made any sense...

 

i think it's bedtime

Running it from a commandline is best.

I use:

xmame.x11 -scanlines -scale 2 -x11-mode 1 <gamerom>

That forces fullscreen DGA mode (if available on your system) and simulates scanlines on the screen. It looks just like the real arcade screen.

Oh, I have only managed to get DGA to work by su to root first.

Glitz.

i dont think i will be buying UT2003 anytime soon... the demo won't even work on my fresh Mandrake 9.0 install.  It segfaults after the splash screen.  And my hardware shouldn't be a problem cause i built this machine about a year ago with everything top of the line.  Anyways, it has to do with libpthread.so.0 or something.  I've heard of others having this problem also, but no solutions to it.

libpthread is the multithreading library....hmmmm, I wonder how this game runs on SMP systems...

Glitz.

I've never gotten the GL version of mame to work. I use the X11 version.

Glitz.

I tried disabling supermount and now it is faster than LM8.1. It takes about 5 seconds to pop up!

I simply did:

supermount -i disable

and rebooted the system (you have to reboot the system for the new setting to take effect).

Glitz.

I didn't know devfs was responsible but I do know that it only happens once (the first time you log into any window manager. After that if you log out and in again it is quick again.

Glitz.

I also discovered that supermount was causing the incredibly long delay when checking for dependencies and installed packages in RPMDrake. I turned it off and now it is faster than in LM8.1.

Glitz.

...an easy to understandable picture is a pyramid of glasses, where you put water in from the to...

 

The water always wents down to the next free glass. And if some glasses are emptied again, they will be filled up again, when something is put in from top again...

This is what causes fragmentation. If part of a file is in one glass and part in another glass. That means they are on non-contiguous parts of the harddrive (the definition of fragmentation).

Glitz.

Has anyone got xmame to work on LM9.0 yet?

Glitz.

These are the compiler options I used for openGL programs under LM8.1 (I too am experimenting with openGL):

-D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -g -c

These are the linker options I used:

-L. -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lglut -lGL -lGLU

Glitz.

Is it really checking the CDROM drives? Hmmmmm, I smell supermount problems. I do not have any raid controllers and it is also slow for me. In fact, a lot of people have noticed this. If I were using 9.0 right now I would try disabling supermount.

Glitz.

Try getting rid of:

Subsection "Display"

Depth 32

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

ViewPort 0 0

EndSubsection

Glitz.