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well, if linux won`t work properly on your box, that is a pity for sure. i don`t say/claim that linux-distros will work on everybox, because that would be a lie. if windows suits your tastes/purposes better, then use it, if you want. why not? as long as you are able to make your system halfway stable and secure... :)

i know that sometimes, it is hard to really adopt to gnu/linux if you are still accustomed to the windows way. that is: you go to a site and install the driver/software and here we go... if (!) it works. i do remember several serious hardware issues with win, where harddrives didn`t work properly, neither graphics or networking.

to me it seems as if a windows user thinks: well, that driver must work... somehow. if it doesn`t, i can still give the hardware back to the vendor. with gnu/linux we have another approach: it doesn`t work? so, let`s find a way to make it work.

everyone has to make a personal decision which way he prefers more. for me, it is sometimes the first way (when i am really lazy :P), but most of the times, it try to get that thing working, knowing that my experience might help others out there, who have the same problem. and that i am able to do so (because of transparency and open source code) is the biggest advantage gnu/linux offers imho.

(and security updates are not 90+MB big... ;))

i don`t blame them for adding a service pack that actually makes the system safer. i just thought of the poor users that will never understand why their apps won`t work or behave strangely and who will likely never find out how to fix it.... and the poor admins... oh my god... :D

i think orinoco based cards are nearly painless... :unsure:

i hope i got the message: you can`t surf the net, while ping etc. works.

have you tried accessing the net without a firewall enabled? have you given access to the internet for the different users as root? (both can be done via mcc). try that first. if that doesn`t help, please give us some information on your networking-hardware (eth0/eth1 card, adsl-modem type) and post the contents of your ifconfig-eth0 file. :)

hey, one last posting: some wonderful news on winxp-servicepack 2...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...ct=windowsxpsp2

The following table lists programs that may behave differently after you install Windows XP SP2:

 

Program Version Vendor

App  Version  ISV

Star Trek StarFleet Command III  v1.0  Activision

Medieval Total War  1  Activision

Pagemaker  7  Adobe

PageMaker (German)  6.5  Adobe

Photoshop Elements  2  Adobe

Ad-Shield  3  Ad-sheild

ERDisk for AD  6.7.128.0 Aelita

Nero 6 Ultra  6  Ahead

Nero Bruning ROM  5.5.6  Ahead

Al Mawrad (Arabic)  2003  Al Ariss

PhotoClick  ---  Al Maalin

AOL  9  AOL

AOL Toolkit  1.13.2  AOL

Uno  1  Aris Buenaventura

Dead Man's Hand  1  Atari

MotoRacer  3  Atari

Scrabble  v3.0  Atari

Unreal II  1  Atari

Unreal Tournament 2003  1  Atari

Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition  1  Atari

Extra Enterprise 2000 2000  ---  Attachmate

Extra Personal Client 6.5  ---  Attachmate

Extra! Bundle for TCP/IP 6.6  ---  Attachmate

KEA! 340 v5.1  ---  Attachmate

Command Antivirus  4.9  authentium

AutoCAD 2004 2004  ---  Autodesk

bv-Admin Mobile 7  ---  Bind View

StarCraft  1.05  Blizzard

BitDefender  7.2  Blizzard

Starcraft  v1.11  Blizzard

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition  v 1.0  Blizzard

Patrol for Windows 2000 3.4.0.11  ---  BMC

Word Perfect Family Pack 5 - Encyclopedia Britannica Ready Reference  2003  Britannica

WISO Sparbuch  2004  Buhl

InnoculateIT  ---  CA

MpegCraft DVD  x  Caropus

Citrix ICA client  7.1  Citrix

FileMaker Pro (German)  5  Claris

ArcServe  6.61  Computer Associates

ArcServe 7.0  ---  Computer Associates

BrightStor ArcServe Backup 9.0  ---  Computer Associates

eTrust  7  Computer Associates

eTrust 6.0.100  ---  Computer Associates

Etrust EZArmor  AE Test  Computer Associates

Corel Draw 9 - PhotoPaint (German)  9  Corel

WordPerfect Office  11  Corel

1st nd Grade Excelerator Curious George Studio 1  ---  Countertop Software

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter  1  Croteam

Retrospect Client  x  Dantz

Dave's Quick Search Toolbar  3.16  Dave Bau http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/doc.htm

Diet KaZaa  2.52  Diet KaZaa

The Lion King Animated Storybook  1  Disney

DivxPlayer  2.5.3  Divx

Command & Conquer Generals  ---  EA Games

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour  ---  EA Games

Earth & Beyond  v.1  EA Games

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2  1  EA Games

SimCity 4  v1.0  EA Games

Freedom Force  1  Electronic Arts

NBA Live 2000  1  Electronic Arts

CheckSoft Home and Business  2004  Eliibrium

EDM File System Agent 3.1  ---  EMC

Chess Advantage III: Lego Chess  ---  Encore

High School Advantage 2003  ---  Encore Software

Encyclopedia Britannica 2000 Deluxe  1  Encyclopedia Britannica

Smarterm Office 10  ---  Esker.com

Smarterm Office 11  ---  Esker.com

Diskeeper  8  Executive Software

Der Brockhaus Multimedia (German)  2004  F.A. Brockhaus

JAWS 5.0  5  Freedom Scientific

F-Secure  5.52  F-Secure

Drivers & Utilities CD  ---  Fujitsu-Siemmens

Cute FTP 5.0  ---  GlobalScape

Conflict: Desert Storm  ---  Gothamgames

Window-Eyes Professional  4.2  GW Micro

HP Quick Launch Buttons  ---  HP

HP SJ 6350  ---  HP

HPSetup 42NAheBLU1 SW build  ---  HP

Exceed 8 ---  Hummingbird

Host Explorer 8  ---  Hummingbird

Rational's Clearcase  2003  IBM

ViaVoice for Windows Personal Edition 10  10  IBM

SmartSuite Millennium Edition ScreenCam (German)  9.5  IBM Lotus

ICQ Pro  3916  ICQ

iMesh  3.1  iMesh

TurboCAD Professional  9  IMSI

Installshield  8  Installshield

Quicken 2003 Premier Home and Business  2003  Intuit

Quicken Deluxe 2001  2001  Intuit

Kazaa  2.52  Kazaa

Kerio Personal Firewall  4  Kerio

WinRoute  4.25  Kerio

Playzone Preschool - Kindergarten - Jump Start Spelling  1  Knowledge Adventure

Live Journal Semagic  1.3.9.6  Live Journal

SmartSuite Millennium Edition - Fast Site  ---  Lotus

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic  ---  Lucas Arts

Merriam Webster's Reference Library 2003 - Journey to the Planets  2003  M-2K

ColdFusion MX for J2EE 6  ---  Macromedia

Freehand 8 (German)  8  Macromedia

MapSend Direct Route  ---  Magellan

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2004  6  McAfee

McAfee Parental Controls  1  McAfee

McAfee VirusScan  4.51  McAfee

Netshield 4.5  ---  McAfee

VisursScan  7  McAfee

Encarta Enzyklopädie  2002  Microsoft

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings  ---  Microsoft

Application Center 2000 SP2  ---  Microsoft

BizTalk 2004  ---  Microsoft

CMS  2001  Microsoft

Comabt Flight Simulator 3  1  Microsoft

Excel  2003  Microsoft

Halo Combat Evolved (Arabic and Hebrew)  Trial  Microsoft

MapPoint Europe  2004  Microsoft

Microsoft Operations Manager  2000 SP1  Microsoft

MS License  3.7  Microsoft

MSBN  ---  Microsoft

MSN  7.02  Microsoft

MSN 9 QFE1 and 9.1 beta  9  Microsoft

Office  11  Microsoft

Office - Power Point 2002 (German)  2002  Microsoft

Office Access 2002  2002  Microsoft

Office System - Power Point  2003  Microsoft

Office XP Access  10  Microsoft

Office XP Professional Excel 10.0 SP2  ---  Microsoft

Office XP SP2 - PowerPoint  11  Microsoft

Office XP Standard  10  Microsoft

Outlook 2000  9  Microsoft

Outlook 2002  10  Microsoft

Outlook 2003  11  Microsoft

Outlook Web Access  x  Microsoft

Revenge of Arcade  v1.0  Microsoft

Server Administrator Tools  ---  Microsoft

SMS  2.0 SP5  Microsoft

SMS  2.0 SP5  Microsoft

SMS  2003 RC2  Microsoft

SMS  2003 RTM  Microsoft

SMS  ---  Microsoft

SNA Server 4.0 SP4  ---  Microsoft

SQL  ---  Microsoft

SQL  7  Microsoft

SQL 2000a 2000a SP3  ---  Microsoft

TaxSaver  1999  Microsoft

Virutal PC  2004  Microsoft

Visual Basic  6  Microsoft

Visual C++ (16-bit)  2  Microsoft

Visual Studio  7  Microsoft

Visual Studio  97  Microsoft

Visual Studio .NET Enterprise 2003  ---  Microsoft

Visual Studio 98  6  Microsoft

Windows Sharepoint Services  2  Microsoft

Windows Sharepoint Services  ---  Microsoft

Word  XP  Microsoft

Works Suite 2004  2004  Microsoft

WSS  2  Microsoft

Musicmatch Jukebox  8.20.0107  Musicmatch

StyleSelector  x  NEC

Veritas  ---  NEC

AppManager  5.01  NetIQ

End2End 4.1  ---  NetIQ

File and Storage Administrator 2.1 (191067)  ---  NetIQ

VewNow 1.05  1.05  NetManage.com

View Now 1.0  1  NetManage.com

ViewNow 1.05  1.05  NetManage.com

McAfee Remote Desktop 32  ---  Network Associates

ESET NOD32 for windows  ---  Nod32

Norman Personal Firewall 1.40  AETEST  Norman

Norman Personla Firewall  4  Norman

Becky  12.09.01 

KaZaa Media Desktop  2.6.3 

PhotoImpact 7 (Traditional Chinese)  7 

Sony: PCV-W510G  510G 

Super Collapse (Demo Only)  2 

UX Theme MultiPatcher  1.5.1 

PhotoExplosion Deluxe  1  Nova Development

NovaNet Web  3.6  NovaStor

Pinnacle Studio  Beta  NX - Pinnacle Studio 9 cause data execution prevention errors

Instant CD/DVD  7  Pinnacle

Real Player (free version)  10  Real Networks

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield  1  Red Storm

Action Request System  x  Redmedy

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne  1  RockStar Games

NASCAR Racing 2003 Season v2003  ---  Sierra

Tribes 2  1  Sierra

Harvard Graphics  3  Software Publishing Corp

SonicWALL Virus Scan  ---  SonicWall

Sony: PCV-V200G:  ---  Sony

VirusSecurity 2004  2004  Sourcenext

BootSkin  x  Stardock

Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5  ---  Symantec

Norton Antivirus 2003  2003  Symantec

Norton Systemworks 2003 - GoBack Personal Edition  Other MS  Symantec

Norton Systemworks 2003 Professional Edition  2003  Symantec

Norton Systemworks 2004 - GoBack32  Beta  Symantec

PCAnywhere 11  ---  Symantec

Smantec Antivirus Corporate Edition  8  Symantec

Talkworks Pro  x  Symantec

Winfax Pro  10  Symantec

Roboword Pro (JAPANESE)  6  Technocraft

Style XP  2  tgtsoft

Eclipse  3  Unknown

Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag  1  Valuesoft

Roller Coaster Factory  v3.0  Valuesoft

Elite Forces Vietnam: Special Assignment 2 ver 1  ver 1  Valusoft

Midnight Outlaw Illegal Street Drug  v1.0  ValuSoft

Backup Exec  9  Veritas

Backup Exec  9.1.4691  Veritas

Backup Exec 8.6.1  ---  Veritas

Backup Exec 9.1  ---  Veritas

BackupExec  9.1  Veritas

BackupExec  8.6.1  Veritas

Bakcup Exec 9.1  ---  Veritas

Volume Manager 3.1  3.1  Veritas

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2  v1.0  Westwood

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2  1  Westwood

Windgate  5.2.3  WinGate

Reflection  9  WRQ

Reflection  9.03  WRQ

Reflection  10  WRQ

Reflection X  10  WRQ

Reflection X  11  WRQ

Reflection X 10  ---  WRQ

Xoreax Incredibuild  ---  Xoreax

Yahoo  x  Yahoo

Yahoo instant Messenger  x  Yahoo

Yahoo Messenger  6.0.0.167  Yahoo

PC Magazine Business Winstone Benchmark  2004  Ziff Davis

ZoneAlarm  5.0.590  ZoneLabs

anything to add in terms of user-friendlyness?

okay, here goes my irrelevant opinion.

1. using a beta ... no comment on this one. :lol:

2. upgrading windows was always a horror. i updated win95 to 98, result: total crash that needed complete reinstall. upgraded 98 to ME, system got destroyed again. and as a further plus, windows managed it three times to kill itself, deleting the windows folder. it was NOT a virus, NOR a trojan, simply a damn windows-bug. i never expereienced this kind of problems in linux.

3. downloading and installing should be consistent, but it can only be consistent for one distro. a source-based distro will likely never switch to rpms and vice versa. but if you look at rpm-based distros, where is the problem? right-click, install via rpmdrake, done. in windows, what do i have? three or four different installers that quite often crash on install for no apparent reason. and then, try to uninstall the stuff again. it leaves your system like swiss cheese and the registry gets peppered with junk, thus slowing down the machine. repair is nearly only possible with extra software (with maybe another weird installer). :wacko:

4. every multimedia application that i wanted to use (except for wmv-files) worked without a problem in totem. with windows, i had to grab dozens of codecs that, even when they were installed didn't work! and windows media player is a horror in itself. i won't comment on that one ... it is not worth my time. :P

5. evolution never crashed on my box, neither did contact. both are very stable imho. does anyone remember something like outlook? brrr... bad memories. and lotus notes? *running away*

6.

Likewise, Konqueror is just a cheap, off-brand attempt to copy MS Window's use of the browser rendering engine to display everything in a web-way. But that was just a fad and is now over, and people largely turn it off, and yet Linux developers are still trying to make it work. And Konqueror is not a good web browser either. It is clunky and lacks just about every feature you can think of.

i think you didn't get the point with konqeror. it is not nearly as bad as some people say, and there are many useful addons that you will never get for any other browser/filemanager except firefox. konqueror is primary a filemanager that can be used as a webbrowser if needed. and if you are not completely incompetent, you can configure konqueror to a very powerful and very fast web-browser. by the way, i am writing this in konqueror. ;)

okay, gnome and spatial browsing... nothing that attracts me but isn't that all a matter of personal taste? :lol:

now... this is a sweet kde-desktop, right?

features kxdocker, snowe-rade8 icons, baghira brushed metal-style and a beautiful wallpaper (i like those eyes.. :woops: )

well, with adsl, doing urpmi.update will take some two or three minutes, so i think, it will take some 10 minutes via dial-up modem.

with respect to the kde-packages: i think that there were other packages that need upgrading, too. so, if you want to upgrade, be sure that you REALLY want it and keep in mind that installing mdk10.1 later on can (maybe) be cheaper and easier than updating with dial-up. sounds pessimistic, but that is the way i see it. :D

hi ipax and welcome aboard. :)

first of all, please give some further info on the hardware of the laptop. this might help. then one simple question to begin with: which formatting has the hd and especially the linux-partition? have you created an extra partition? etc...

hmm... in my opinion, kde is better than gnome. :lol: okay, let's put aside de-wars.

well, gdeklets has one advantage over superkaramba. first of all, the current superkaramba is a bit buggy (has to be compiled due to line-error again) and it uses more resources than gdesklets. but anyway, i say, don't overestimate the value of these eye-candy things. think twice before adding them to your desktop because EVERY single extra of eye candy will lower your system resources and thus slow your machine down. so, if your comp is not the fastest out there, i would skip these tools (imho they are unnessesary but that is only my opinion and you might probably find them useful ;)).

i simply say: don't buy a comp, sporting the latest high-end hardware and you will get a comp that has surely all drivers needed installed in the kernel.

(for what is it good to have a super-high-tech comp anyway? reminds me of some guys trying to impress others with their "superfast-sportscar"...)

uuuh... how much ram does your comp have and how much ram has your printer?

are you sure that you are choosing the correct printer-setup in your apps? if you choose "generic printer" than this can be the cause to your problems. look at the printing setup and ALL of the options there. i had a "generic" printer AND my "okipage 4wm" printer in the selection-panel. the generic produced crap, the other one worked fine. ;)

hi and welcome aboard. :)

in order to help you, we need more info on your laptop. which hardware parts are ther? (chip, ram, graphics-card, hdd, usb-devices,...), what type of format has your hdd? (ext2/3, reiferfs?) did you check your cd's md5sum before burning?

well, using mdk 10.1 beta is imho not the best thing for a beginner in linux, but as long as it doesn't crash or give other serious problems... okay... :P

i suggest you start first, doing some "simpler" customizing with the sites i mentioned above. that way you will get a "feel" for the differents desktop envirnonments and learn to understand how they work. you will find out, which desktop suits you best, which advantages and disadvantages every de has. later on, you will automatically gain enough experience in order to tweak some config-files.

you can look nonetheless e.g. at the config files of blackbox or the like (stored in your home-folder), they are quite simple to understand. just read them and you will find out that colors are defined by their code and that for certain windows or buttons there are some bevel options and gradient-stuff plus lots more.

in order to find out more about gdesklets or superkaramba (this are tools that give you e.g. a calendar + weather + system-info on your desktop), head to their sites (e.g. via google) and read their manuals. once you get an idea how these work, you can start tweaking as much as you like. but don't do it as root, just in case you do something "really stupid" to your system. ;) if you head into further trouble, just search the forum threads and, if necessary, post your problems in here, giving information on what you want to do in which desktop environment. you can also discuss most stuff in musb-chat (link is on top of page). :)

first of all: are you absolutely sure that your root-pw changed? usually, this is impossible. did you keep in mind that login is case sensitive? did you check that you don't have set caps-lock?

second: if you have a live cd like knoppix or the like, you could explore your configs and thus recover your pw. but i still think this is a typo problem...

hi, and welcome. :)

in order to help you, we need some more info on your computer and the install you made. did you format your partition in ext2,3 or reiserfs? what hardware does your comp have? please be as exact as possible. did you encounter any errors while installing? does it also freeze under windows (just in case you have bad ram on board)?

hmm.. i am not completely sure, but i think they refer to the linux-kernel, which must be installed for compiling first (i do wonder if it is really necessary to recompile the kernel). you can find the kernel sources on your cd's and you can grab them from the ftp-mirrors alternatively. but as i said, i am not 100% sure... :unsure:

uh... well, first of all, you have to decide, which desktop environment you want to tweak/customize. if you want to add some eyecandy to your kde desktop then go to http://www.kde-look.org, for gnome, have a look at http://www.gnome-look.org and http://art.gnome.org. for fluxbox, blackbox, xfce, windowmaker and other, smaller desktop environments, visit http://themes.freshmeat.net/ and http://www.themedepot.org/ . :)

if you want to further tweak your desktop, it can be done with gdesklets or superkaramba and windowmakers like fluxbox, blackbox or fvwm2 can be modified by changing their config-files manually. in order to fin out more on these, i suggest you visit the desktop-relevant homepages first. they do have quite often some howto's attached for configuring the desktops. also search the net for e.g. "fvwm2 manual" and you will find some useful stuff.

:)

convert kword or open office write documents into pdf documents

in open office writer, there is a menu-button, showing a pdf-symbol. just click on it and your document becomes a pdf-file.

with respect to ms publisher, i have to admit that i almost don't remember what it was. must have been shitty. :lol: well, it was something for creating document layout, right? in that case i suggest, you give scribus a try. it is similar to quark-express, pagemaker and indesign (although indesign is still the best program for professionalnewspaper/magazine-layout imho).

my current desktop, still featuring nuvola icons, alloy windeco, plastic theme, alloy colors (eye-friendly :) ) and self made, simple wallpaper. nuthin' spectacular, but very usable for everyday work imho.

hello, and welcome aboard :)

well, i have not looked into the zipped files, but i guess that you have to compile it. if there is a configure-file in it, then do the following: extract the file into a new folder, go to the folder and open a console, then type (i suggest you do it as root)

./configure

make

make install

after that, you should have the drivers installed. with regard to further steps, look here:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html

good luck

yeah, that is weird, but it also happened to me that i had once a bad burn and it booted fine, until installation began. then it was unable to detect my second hd and my second cd-rom drive. :blink:

errrm... just a stupid question. did this also happen with mandrake 10.0? i mean... using 10.1rc1 is not the best way of getting your system running a network, especially if you keep in mind that this version will be the community edition later, which means that there won't be as much network drivers as in official edition. so if you can, try mandrake 10.0 OE first. ;)

assuming it worked under 10.0, please give us more info. e.g. your network settings, yout ifconfig-eth0 file, the output of ifconfig in console, etc....

:)

...well... for being a "total newbie" to linux you do know already quite a lot 'bout linux...

usually, mandrake automatically detects the cd-rom drives. i almost believe your cds are not that good. have you checked your cds properly (md5sum)? maybe they are a bad burn, maybe scratched, maybe bad download,... :unsure: