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Yeah, a great feature would be the ability to "copy" files greater than the max attachement size (splitting/combining them automatically).

Cool! going through the lm_sensors docs I found out that I can change the fan divisor value and the fan speed is now properly showned. I added "set fan1_div 8" to the relevant section of /etc/sensors.conf (the default divisor was 2) See doc/fan-divisor in the lm_sensors source Doesn't solve anything with the probelm at hand but cool to note. (I'm writing a custom script to do temp monitoring).

congrats, and well deserved.

FYI, this violates the GMail TOS.

Looks like I need to go theough the lm_sensors doc more carefully, the lm_sensors page mentions a daemon that would be included in the package that could email you in case of temps too high for example. I'm guessing if it can email, it can shut down too. I'll post back here if I find more info but feel free to share your experience if you are using it already.

my bios has an audible alarm but it doesn't actually shut anythign down which is really useless since the machine is unattended 90% of the time. I guess I'll write a perl script that runs every few minutes, and processes the output of the sensors command (or can I read the temps directly out of the proc file system somewhere?). Might even log the temp hourly to syslog for "long term" temp monitorring.

now that I have temperature monitoring working, I would like to initiate an unattended shutdown if my temps exceed a specific level (in case of fan failure for example). I'm running grkllm to display the temp, does it allow to initiate a shutdown? Is there a better way to do it (some monitoring service?) Ideally I'd like to log something in syslog so that I know why the bix shutdown when I restart it. FYI, I can't monitor fan speed because I use a low rpm fan and the bios can't read that low so fan speed always reads as 0 (well once in a while it registers at its actual 1200rpm or so value).

I'll check that (not at home right now). If they're not, how do I add them? I urpmi'd mozplugger though I figures that that would take care of it.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/video_mods/series.jhtml (click on video clips then select one of the clips) I have mplayer, win32-codec, RealPLayer10 installed, but when I tried to play the video using the latest Firefox it doesn't work. the site tried to make me downloadwindows media player.

you're right, "win32-codec" I had problems with mozplugger and a 0.9.x version of firefox. Mayeb things are better now.

I was disappointed to learn that there will not be a Tribes:Vengeance version for linux. I have a windows gaming machine so it doesn't really impact me, but I like to see big name games (UT2004, DOOM3, ...) offer a linux version. I was hoping that since Tribes:Vengeance is based on the Unreal engine, it would be ported to linux too. There is a Tribes-like open source game called "Legends" that is very similar to Tribes, jetpacks and disk launchers included! You can download Legends from the main site here: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ (there is also a windows version byt the way) Servers can be pretty empty except for the weekly Wednesday night meets (US time) but if you join an empty server and play around for a few minutes, you will generally see someone join you. Give it a try! (the game is still in the beta stage though, so don't expect it to be perfect)

if the FTP server is too busy, use bittorent

Well, illogic-al is right but a little terse :P You should be able to play most videos in linux, but unfortunately it's often more painfull than it needs to be. There is a variety of media players in linux (mplayer, xine, ...). In addition, there are often several graphical front ends for each of them, for example Totem which is the default player in mdk 10 is a front end on top of xine. mplayer does seem to be the most compatible, so I would start by installing it doing "urpmi mplayer" and see if your files play. If not, you may have to add "win-codecs" which is available from PLF (if you don't know what that means, search for win-codecs or easy urpmi on these forums and you'll find detailed explanation" You also might want to look at Real Player 10 from Helix (search the forum or google for it). Integration into mozilla or konqueror is poor at best in my opinion and I still have to find a good tutorial on how to do it.

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ Tiny installer (7M). You of course need a retail copy of the game. For those that don;t have a copy, you can always try the demo.

The focus of this analysis is not to fire up glxgears, and see which program runs it faster. Instead, we want to look at some common graphics intensive applications for Linux and determine how well they run, particularly in relation to their Windows counterparts. We are interested in more than just the benchmark results - getting there is half the fun, and coincidentally, half the weighting for a purchase decision for many of us. Invariably, we will draw some conclusions from one GPU family to another out of the eleven cards that we have chosen to compare today. The article is here: http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2229 You can even download the utility they cooked up for benchmarking graphic card performance under linux.

Read the posts above: the howto will tell you how to install the kernel source. If it still fails, try the --add-this-kernel option I mention in the post above.

Nothing to add technically to this thread, just wanted to say that I too am an arcade aficionado, although my homemade arcade cabinet runs win XP :unsure: with the MAMEWAH front end. I didn't choose linux because I have many old Win based games that I wanted to play in addition to the MAME emulation (Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Angel Storm, Dr Blob's organism, M$ pinball, video poker, ...). I also run a GameBoy emulator (VisualBoy Advance) but I'm pretty sure there is a linux version of that because it uses SDL.

If you really want to play winodws game, install windows on a separate partition and reboot to windows for playing games. The "religious" argument about using windows is moot: since either way you are using windows, and either way you should have a legal copy of windows to install it. There are a few pratical reasons for wanting to use VMware: for example if you run a web server on your linux machine in addition to using it for games or whatever. In this case the web page would be downwhile you play CS.

I think what you're asking is how do I access directories with a space in the name? you can use quotes around the name: cd '/home/papaschtroumpf/my programs' you can use the \ character to "escape" the space: cd /home/papaschtroumpf/my\ programs or what I do is use the tab key autocompletion so I don't have to type the whole thing: cd /home/pa press tab and it automatically complete to cd /home/papaschtroumpf then complete "/my": cd /home/papaschtroumpf/my press tab again and the shell completes the whole name: cd /home/papaschtroumpf/my\ programs

of course it implies that what you're trying to kill is an app with a window. I'd recommend everyone learns to use ps and kill/killall, that should be part of the basic linux skills. The top method works well too.

if you do have to re-install, try in "upgrade" mode first, I found that it can fix a lot of problems while leaving your system the way you had it before the "bad thing" happened.

yes, do number 4. If the NVIDIA installer still thinks it can't compile a compatible module, post back here.

you need to set up a samba server on your machine to be able to export your printer to windows. I won't go in the details of how t do that in this answer, search around the forums, it's gotta be here. Once samba is setup, you need to setup up a printer share. one possible way to do this is to use webmin: in a browser type https:/locaholst:10000 (maybe you need to urmpi webmin first?) and there is a whole section to configure samba, including printer shares. You can also manually do it by editing you samba.conf file (do man samba.conf). The last thinkg to know is that you need to have the right drivers on the XP machine. Samba has a mechanism where the drivers can be on the linux machine and windows automatically retrieves and installs them but I never could get that part to work. IF there was a driver disk with your printer, install it on your XP box just like if you wanted to connect to it locally. If there were no dirvers with your printer, windows must support it natively.

Sorry, it's not so simple. Wine already has a "fake" windows direcory and registry for example, but most program in windows rely on parts of the OS doing the work for them (such as directX) so it's not enough to "locate" the file, but you also need to "run" it. So wine knows how to fake some windows functions and not others. This is what mostly determines what can run under Wine and what doesn't. Cedega for example is similar to wine but fakes more functions than wine, especially some related to games. On the other hand vmware (and I think win4lin) fake hardware, so that you can actually instll a copy of windows into that "fake" (emulated) computer, and windows doesn't know the difference.

how much ram does your BIOS think you have? (usually displayed in the boot screen). You mught want to enbale memory test on boot and remove and re-insert the memory module. run memtest86 (use google, burn the CD, boot form it) for a few cycles to make sure the issue is not with your memory (it could expalin the KDE crashes).