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I just discovered today that the successor to Armagetron, the TRON light cycle game, is Armagetron Advance and is available for download. Haven't tried it yet though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/ Another similar game is GLTron, but Armagetron [Advance] has network multiplayer play.

1) dynamic IP: - call them on the phone, ask them to run ifconfig if their box is kinux, ipconfig if it's Windows and it will tell you waht the current IP is and you can enter that in your VNC client. - the other ("right") way of doing it is to set up your parents with dynamic DNS. Look at dyndns.org, there are other providers for free dynamic DNS too. You will have to install a dynamic DNS client on your parent's computer (unless yourt router is dyndns aware, I think my linksys one is), that client will basically tell the dyndns server every time the IP address of your parent's computer changes, Dyndns gives you a "domain name", for example momandpop.sellis.dyndns.org, and you can enter that as the server address in your vnc client (basically works just like "normal" dns). Google for dynamic DNS to learn more about it, I would advise going with the free services, they work just fine. There are "clients" for windows. MACs and linux 2) router you need to set port forwarding in your parents' router (also called virtual server on some routers). If your parents' PC behind the router is always at 192.168.1.105, then you need to forward TCP port 5900 to that machine in your router. Look at the manual for your router on how to do that. hope this helps

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- make sure you got the IP address right: on the mdk machine type ifconfig in a shell window to get the ndk machine's IP address (say 192.168.1.4 for example) - not sure how you set up the VNC server, but default it uses port 5900 I believe, but you may have changed it (you could use netstat | grep -i vnc to see which port it's running on). For the sake of argument, let's assume you run it on port 5901 - in the VNC windows client, type the IP address, a colon, and the port minus 5900, i.e. 192.168.1.4:1 - make sure that the windows PC doesn't have a firewall that blocks the outgoing packet (do you have XP service pack2? If so it'll be blocked by default) hope this helps

sharing an existing session is the main reason I want to do this.

I use both windows and linux (on 2 separate machines), and I have been using the Windows one to to copies with DVDShrink. I don't know if DVDShrink works under Cedega.

Not sure which forum to post this in. I'm looking for a KDE-style destop manager for windows XP. The "PowerTools" one is annoying because when you click on an app in the task bar, it brings the app to the current window rather than opening the corresponding desktop. Rather than have to switch mode between work and home, I'd rather have something in windows that behaves more or less like KDE.

You don't really need the rpms. start by doing a search on these forums. I bet the SW, HW, Tips & Trick and Install forums all have answered it a dozen times.

I generally use DVDShrink under Windows, but this looks good. I'll need to give it a try. My work laptop doesn't have a DVD drive so when I go on the road I rip DVDs to DivX on CDs since I play them back on the laptop. Works great.

It's kindof a long shot: There is a known problem in the original release that causes a similar problem. The CacheRecords.ucl file would get corrupted. You might be able to google around for CacheRecords.ucl to get a clean copy. You could also reinstall and apply the patches before you run even once. EDIT: before you anything drastic, look at .ut2004/System/ut2004.log it may contain more detailed info about what caused the crash.

I've been using the Mepix LiveCD for a few days in my windows laptop and I like it, I think it's a little slicker than knoppix which was my "traveling linux" of choice. Even detected and automatically configured my Cisco wireless card. With knoppix I have to do "ifconfig ath0 up ; pump -i ath0" before I can use it (open system obviously, I'm on the road and using hotel provided wireless access). Haven't gotten a chance to try the gaming liveCDs yet, maybe later during my conference

I didn't know there was a Loki port. Is this something you can get for free as long as you've got the windows one?

Yes, that's the par t I missed when I read the man page, you can get several "windows" within a single session.

I tried it about 2 years ago (I think) on a K6-400. I just gave up after a few days when there was no end of building the "minimal system" in sight. To be fair I had a poky harddrive (5400rpm over ATA33) and the absolute minimum memory . I find urpmi to be too slow at times, so I guess Gentoo is not for me. Mdk is optimized for i586 which is at least a first step in gaining speed vs an i386 build.

Thx, will check it out

which I'm not (nothing against it. just picked KDE when I moved to Mdk from RedHat and sticking with it out of habit. Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep an eye on that one but I'll let it mature a bit. I do find that more and more distros tend to be pretty alike in day to day use (that's a good thing) although I think mdk and debian users are spoiled with urpmi and apt-get, and while I don't mind compiling from source, it's a lot faster to just use the installers, especially because of dependencies. I guess I'm getting out of the "geekish toy" phase in my linux life and moving to a "let me just use the darn thing" mode.

I use the "screen" command a lot because I'm not always at my linux machine, but I can use SSH to access it from anywhere, so I can for example start a bittorrent download, an FTP download and restart my UT2004 server remotely and monitor them from somewhere else. So I often have multiple screen sessions going (I'm downloading 3 different liveCDs as I type this for example). I often want to check on all sessions at some time, for example to see how much time is left on a download, or if my game server is busy. I don't know of a way to skip form one session to another from within screen, so I have to retype "screen -d -r xxxxx.pts-y.Mandrake" where xxxxx is the session number and y the terminal number. Is this truly not possible? it would be so convenient if you could press Ctrl-A + a key and mvoe to the next session. Also, I'd like to have a cron job send me a status of the screen sessions, such as making sure that the torrents I'm seeding are still conencted to their tracker, or whatever. Ideally I'd liketo simple capture a "snapshot" of a screen session to a file by simply issuing a command line. Is this possible at all? I did read the screen man page, but for whatever reason most of it just doesn't register with my brain, for exampel from the man page I thoguh Ctrl-A + n would do exactly what I describe in my first question.

So what's so great about Ubuntu? Goign throught this forum I see that apt-get is the thing, just like with any other Debian based distro, but it seems it be trailing in the availability of packages, this or that isn't working quite right, etc... Sounds like it suffers from the shrotcoming most brand new distros do. Is it just a neat toy and exciting because it's the start of a new thing? or is it really *better* than a more mature distro like say mdk 10.1 or FC3? If so, how is is better and how is it worse? I haven't found a compelling reason to try it yet for real. I tried the live CD but I'm stuck at a low screen resolution so that nothing fits right on the screen.

The morphix site appears to be down at the moment but I'll check it out. I also downloaded the gamers version of knoppix (not tried it yet though). Actually has demos of a couple cool games from Garage Games and others, in addition to the usual linux fare. Looks like the "warty" Ubuntu liveCD is based on the morphix CD (says "welcome to the morphix liveCD" at boot :P ). I understand the nexst liveCD ("hoary") should be much more Ubuntu-ish. Speaking of Ubuntu, I can't seem to make it run at a decent resolution (namely 1024x768) on my Dell laptop. the resolution isso small that most windows don't fit in the screen. I tried adding screen=1024x768 to the boot command line, but to no avail. The Xconfig file and the bootup messages seem to indicate that 1024x768 is a valid recognized mode, but I can't figure out how to switch. The built-in Gnome desktop resolution applet only gives me the option of 640x480 @ 73Hz. I tried the ProMepis CD but it gets lots of IOerrors on hdc (the CD-ROM drive), so I'm guessing I have a bad CD and will reburn it (since the downlaoded ISO md5sum is correct). Edit: morphix site now back up. downloadding the "gamer" CD, I think I'll try the light GUI one too. Another question: which one is a good general purpose "recovery" liveCD. Ideally provides tools for both recover of Win and Linux system (support for all the associated filesystems), USB key (to save off data) and ideally virus checking with internet update ofthe signatures right from the CD.

Yikes! that'll do :D

I'm interested in playing with other distros "just for fun" but I don't want to dual boot either of my other machines and my laptop HD is only 5G, so that leaves live CDs for now. Are there interesting LiveCDs out there besides knoppix? It seems like the 2 trendy new distros right now are Mepis and Ubuntu. The Mepis site talks about a liveCD but I'm not sure if it's a standalone liveCD (a la knoppix) or if it's really meant to be used as an install CD. Can the Mepis LiveCD be downloaded from anywhere? I'm downloading the UBuntu "Warty" LiveCD over bitttorrent as I post this. Anything else I'm missing that might be interesting? Is there a "gamer's" live CD out there? (I know there was a UT2003 Gentoo livecd at one time but it only worked on NVIDIA GPUs). I've got ATI at work and Intel on the laptop. (these are the only 2 places where I'd want to use a gaming livecd). If some other distro looks really good I may play with it under VMWare to see if I want to install it. I eventually want to go linux on my laptop (when I buy a new one), so this is kind of a selection process for laptop use.

shoudln't this post be moved to a more visible forum?

Google -> http://www.avault.com/pcrl/dlftp.asp?url=f...me=devilwhiskey seems to work for me

as root try glxgears and make sure you get a number >1000, if not you don't havw haedrware acceleration on

looks like the rpm file is always the same name from the same location, so I could write a script that downloads it, check if it's different from the previous one, and if it is installs it with urpmi. Or is there a way to do it automatically with urpmi knowing the URL to the rpm (which is not in a repository like plf for example).