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There is a very handy and lesser-known feature of this board that might be useful to some of you, as it is to me. It essentially allows you to ignore a specific user, so that their posts will be masked from your view. This is especially handy if you're trying to ignore someone who is flame-baiting or just generally being a nuisance. To ignore them, click on their nick to take you to their member listing. On the top right there is a drop-down menu that says 'Profile Options'. On this menu is the option to add this user to your ignore list, which can also be managed from your profile page. I've just enabled this for one of our OTW subscribers, and my blood pressure is much better now. Try it, it's fun :D

You can usually use: $ ifconfig to display what's happening with each adapter... otherwise it should be in the MCC

This could be a DNS problem. Perhaps try clearing out your /etc/resolv.conf file so that your service provider can provide the correct list of DNS servers for their service. Also try opening up a console and ping an IP-address, not a URL, like this: $ ping 196.25.1.1 If you can ping IP addresses, but not URLs (like ping www.google.com), then it is most certainly a DNS problem. EDIT: If your resolv.conf is empty to begin with, call your service provider and get the right nameservers from them to populate the file with.

Your error message clearly indicates that the Nvidia drivers are not installed. I would take LinLin's advise and install them using the package from Nvidia to make sure that the module is correctly compiled.

When was that decided? They were already hinting at it last year, not sure when the final decision was made. Have you guys checked out Swiftshader? It's a DirectX compatible API that Transgaming are working on - and possibly the answer to all our linux-gaming dreams...

The AIM protocol is identical to the ICQ protocol and compatible. Try signing up for an AIM account and sending to your ICQ friend via that. I seem to remember this working once for me, but my memory is *cough* not the greatest at the best of times...

Looking forward to hearing how it works out for you. Just to bang on it again: go with the Netgear stuff - it seems to work really well from what I've seen.

Third-party clients and file transfers are always touch-n-go. Try using one of the other ICQ-compatible clients, such as LICQ and see if that can send files. Otherwise try using a Jabber-ICQ transport gateway and see if you can push files through that.

What graphics card do you have and which driver are you using for it?

I'm gonna try that out! What I'd really like is a cross-platform instant messaging client, like gaim, for my phone. They are out there, but I haven't found any free ones.

I was interested to learn that Intel own the biggest share of the graphics market - in the region of 60%. While Nvidia and ATI (now with AMD) make better cards, your average office worker is rocking on Intel - and after playing with a Macbook, I was quite impressed with the capabalities of lowly Intel shared graphics. They certianly have shown up Nvidia and ATI by going open source though. I wish more hardware companies would wake up to the benefits of allowing the community to see what you've got ;)

I've played with the stuff from Netgear - they even have a plug adapter now for wireless - so you can have both. It works really well. Obviously it is not intended for enterprise-level networking just yet, but is just fine for your home setup.

Nice looking website... can't understand a word of it though lol

WEP and MAC filtering are both very easy to bypass. I recommend a combination of WPA, MAC filtering and turning off SSID broadcasting. If you jsut turn off your SSID broadcasting, no one can connect 'by accident' and malicious people are less likely to find your network ;)

Pinned it... just until it becomes old news ;)

Works for me. Haven't read the whole thing yet though.

That's what happens when you shut down your computer by grabbing the power cable and running in the opposite direction :P

Yes it would. The router would establish the connection to the service provider and farm it out to all the computers connected to it with DHCP or fixed addresses. Very simple and elegant solution :P But consider getting a router that is compatible with your modem, so instead of using an internal modem, it uses PPPoE to use your existing modem (if supported) - that should save you some money. Of course :) Hmmm.... probably not - but why would you want to do that? This is exactly what it will provide. The router will provide net access to all the machines connected to it. The specific router you mention has 4 Ethernet (cable) ports and wireless. So you could connect four machines (with any OS) to it using ethernet cabling and a lot more using wireless connections. All the computers connected to it will be able to communicate using TCP/IP.

Haven't heard of any of them, but I guess they'd be fairly generic if they're offered by your ISP. It might be better to get one from elsewhere though. If your SP is anything like mine, then their in-house gear is over-priced or ties you into some form of contract.

From a router perspective, I would advise getting a combination DSL / wireless router (if you use DSL). I've personally worked with a range of Belkins, Linksys', Netgear and some lesser known makes from China and South Africa (Mecer). The Linksys are very good and have strong signals (it's amazing how signal strength varies from one to the next), but I'm not that big on the Linksys web admin firmware. There is, however, a Linux distro for Linksys routers which is better, but I do not know much about it. The Netgears are good looking (lol) and I prefer their interface, although they don't setup as easily and Belkin is about the same. I wouldn't recommend going with the smaller unknown brands, both from a security and maintenance (firmware upgrades esp.) perspective. For your computers, stay away from USB (as Ian said) and go PCMCIA (in laptops) and PCI (in desktops), although most new latptops have WiFi built in.

A friend of mine got one working in Ubuntu by treating it as a generic PCMCIA modem. Not sure of more details than that, but it might get you headed in the right direction so long...

Does he know kung fu?

hmmm... I don't think it was ever broken :P <shameless_plug>But why not ask someone on these excellent Mac forums over here? </shameless_plug>

Oh no! A window's screenshot! I'm blind! Bliiiiiiinnnnnnddddd

Gentoo or Mandriva? If Gentoo, your network script probably got over-written. Follow the steps in the Gentoo handbook for setting up your networking (as if you're doing it for the first time) and you should be back on track. EDIT: I see from your other post that you're probably talking about Mandrive. Same advice really - set up networking in the MCC as if you're doing it for the first time.