Ronin

Dang everything sounded great untill the last bit. That part sounded like a warning about another "funding" drive.

Well that is what they need isn't it? Money? Of course they're going to start a "help us" drive. They'd be stupid not too.

Let me see if I understand this: you run 9 and installed vmware then are trying to install 9 in vmware?

Why?

Got this from man uptime:

uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

As to how it calulates the average I can only surmise its just that. It takes an averge of the load during the last X minutes and shows that as the output.

Or just igore it as it can't directly affect linux users. And blocking it will just fill up your logfie with alerts. Blocking it won't increase your internet connection in any way.

Is the game any good, or is it simply an American Publicity - everyone-go-join-the-army thing?

It was designed as a recruiting tool for the U.S Army but they've never tried to hide that fact. And they designed the game to follow the steps that a new recruit would take, you start off in boot camp as I recall etc.

I've played the windows version and it's a kickass game to play.

Sweet I've been waiting since I saw Americas Army for that one to be ported over. This is going to go over big time. :-)

Humm, this is interesing. The gov dept I work for only buys Dell. Sure makes a technicians life easy having only one kind of machine to work on. I wonder if we're going to see any of those linux boxs coming in soon? They tell me they've ordered another 100ish machines. It doesn't really matter, they'll still have me dumb them down to NT no matter what comes on. But it would be nice to fire one up, set up an XP theme, leave it running and see if anyone notices.

For the final port, lets take guesses:

 

My guess is: America's Army

Man I sure hope its that one.Im so tired of dualbooting just to get killed. :-)

Good for him I say. I don't like Lindows at all but we need more linux distros that make money. Hint,hint. :-)

I ripped this right off of Dolsons site (http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/). He's talking about KDE but perhaps it's the same process for Gnome.

It's long so hold on tight.

There are two new features in Mandrake 9.0 that some users may really like a lot. I really hate them. So, I found a way to disable them. This tutorial will cover removing the Removable Media icon that reappears on your desktop every time you start KDE.

Open a console. Type in su and hit Enter.

Now you will be asked for the root password, so put it in and hit Enter.

Next, using your favorite editor (I'll assume Kate, as it's got a nice easy-to-use GUI about it) you must edit a config file. So, type in kate /usr/bin/kdesktop-links and hit Enter.

Go to line 17 or so, and you'll see something like this:

if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.directory ]; then

cp -f /usr/share/mdk/kde/directory-desktop $HOME/Desktop/.directory

fi

# Removable media

If you see that, then great. You're editing the right file. Now, add in these lines that are in red:

if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.directory ]; then

cp -f /usr/share/mdk/kde/directory-desktop $HOME/Desktop/.directory

fi

# Set MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC:

#

# 0 - Enable Removable Media icon

# 1 - Disable Removable Media icon

MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC=1

if [ $MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC == 0 ]; then # START MDKXP IF STATEMENT

# Removable media

So as you can see, if you set that variable to zero (MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC=0), then you would have the Removable Media icon when you restart KDE. But if you set it to 1, then the icon won't reappear once you delete it.

We need to make one final edit.

Scroll down to about line 134 or so. You should see something like this:

fi

if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab ]; then

md5sum /etc/fstab > $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab

Now, add in this extra line that is in red:

fi

fi # END MDKXP IF STATEMENT

if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab ]; then

md5sum /etc/fstab > $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab

Save the file and exit.

Delete the Removable Media icon from the desktop.

Restart KDE, and that annoying Removable Media icon won't come back to life.

One thing to be noted is that the line numbers are as found in the KDE version included with Mandrake 9.0 by default. If you upgrade KDE, the line numbers may change, and the icons will come back. You will need to do this tutorial again if you install a newer KDE version, and you will have to find the proper lines yourself.

I was just hanging out on efnet in #mandrake and this very question came up. And my fiance dares ay I waste time on irc. HA I say. They went to cd to /home/user/.gnome-desktop and they swear they stayed deleted. Did you try it as root and delete them from your user desktop?Or is that my windows background showing up again?

knode handles html as I recall.

Opps, I blame the beer.I meant kmail, heck I just about typed knode again. lol

read this :) 

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=4291

Sweet. If this works it's what I've been wanting for sometime just too lazy to do anything about. :-)

The real situation is that you can dl the iso from here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftpurl.php3#security It looks like they changed thier mind at some point and released an iso of it. Now all I have to do is decide if I want to stay with IPcop or give MNF a shot.

Peter Breuer is basically the Simon (forgot the last name) from American Idol. He is rough, full of scathing comments, etc, etc.. basically the person you like to hate. He is not a troll however, since he actually knows his stuffs. I basically just put him to the rank of arrogant elitist :)

No your right he's not a troll and he does know his stuff, he just has absolutily no people skills and if newbies tick him off that much he has no business answering questions. I've had some "interesting" exchanges what that looser. lol

Yeah... but where do you put that command line, I mean surely there is a file that needs editing before it will just start automatically...!!

The menu you want to edit is in /home/username here/.fluxbox/menu

You can start most automatically in the slit. On the Fluxbox help/faq page theres a small tutorial on how to do it.

I believe its something like /usr/bin/gkrellm -w & to have gkrellm start automatically in the slit.

BTW not all apps will run in the slit so you may have to start them otherways.

If Mandrake dies I'd use just about anything other then those two mentioned, if I so choose to change distros for that matter.

LOL Running Mandrake and having to downgrade to Lindows?? Not bloody likely.

Yep, been following that one for some time now. Peter's always good for a laugh and an insult and giving pointers on posting form but very seldom does he actually ever answer any questions.

He must have been in a good mood when this started, I bet he's not now though. lol

eroaster makes it real easy to burn iso to cd or if you feel up to it how about through a term? Head over to http://speculation.org/garrick/tips.html for a quick and easy tutorial on how to burn an iso through the cmd line.

with xchat1.8.x i have no problem but somehow xchat1.9.x doesn't work anymore.

How did you install the new version of XChat that you're trying to use?

It's probibly also spelt pr0n for the same reason Metallica was misspelled on Napster. To get around censors and filters that can be in place.

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap

(Why is it spelt pr0n? I'm just a little sheep)

It's the l33t haxor way to spell it.

Like Anon posted you can use a Windows bootdisk and fdisk /MBR. That will take care of anything left over in your mbr. If you haven't got a bootdisk right now, a realy easy way to get one is to head over to www.bootdisk.com. They have one or two available there.