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Don't forget to become root (su) before saving the file of course. Forgot that *sorry*

Do this:

$ cd /bin/

Make a file in bin called word.sh

Open the file (with an editor) and type this in the file:

cd /home/user/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/

wine WINWORD.EXE

Save the file.

Make a shortcut on your desktop and execute word.sh or put in 'sh word.sh'

And you're done. Should work.

Ok, I will try it. I'm getting desperate with this adaptor.

Thanks for the link!

It is a Radeon Mobility, so I couldn't find any drivers for it except the Mandrake defaults.

My favourite chess game is Quake 3. It is a lot like battle chess for the pc.

Great looking GUI with 3d pieces and the AI is very advanced. :lol:

There are many solutions available.

Surf on over to http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=streaming+a...ection=projects

I work at a rado station, so this was one of the first things I looked for, there are great solutions and since they are running on Linux - much more stable and not sticky.

Ok, on the machine you are installing from, look for a file: /etc/hosts

open this file up with gedit, kedit, vim - whatever you use.

Now add the machine you are copying to, to your hosts file and save it.

Open up Webmin (open Mozilla, surf to https://localhost:10000 ) (you might have to install webmin from your mdk cds first).

Recreate your nfs export using webmin. Make sure you are exporting to "everyone" and that it doesn't require a password.

Now try again and let us know what happened.

Ok, i'm going to ask one last time before giving up and switching to Redhat on this laptop.

I am SO very tired of this topic. Here are my final thoughts:

WineX sucks ass. It is stupid, but if people are sitting with old windoze games they bought and still want to play, they have a right to. Who cares?

Buying crap games will encourage people to make more crap games, whether they are for Linux or not. Send email, protest, demonstrate, burn shit - get their attention. Don't just buy a game because it's written for Linux. So what? Does that make it a good game? What does that say about Linux users - we'll just buy stupid crap until one day people decide to make good stuff?

And that is all. If you REALLY want to play a variety of games, go buy a Playstation. Otherwise play Quake and stop complaining.

And please read other people's posts with your tounge in yer cheak. I think I pissed off DOlsen again by posting what I thought was a humourous comment. touchy.

Rad. Thank You for the links, I'm learning to love the Ogg format now.

hmm... did you make sure you were root again the second time?

Otherwise run:

# chmod 775 -vRf usr/lib/rpm/rpmb

just to be sure.

I am yet to encounter a webcam that won't work. Even a little obscure i-cam works.

But pop over to madrake's website and check their compatibility lists to make sure you get a cam that has been tested on mdk. Better safe then sorry, ya know :wink:

You can nfs export your cd-rom drive mount point, that is not a problem. Check your setup on the machine with the cd drive, especially your firewall. Try disabling the firewall (Mandrake Control Panel -> Security -> firewall - if you are using shorewall) and trying again (remember to modify your ports and put it back up afterwards!)

I am presuming that there is nothing on the target computer? Are you using a floppy to get it booted with network support? Can you ping the target computer and visa versa? Are the ip addresses of the same domain? There are many things that could be causing this problem...

I really need help with this one? Any ideas? There's some oreos and a beer i.o.u in the deal for ya?

Use Firestarter.

It is the favourite firewall with just about everyone I know.

That's a great idea! - I'll buy games online and pay in dollars! So that if they don't get lost in the post (which they will), they'll take 2 - 3 months to get here! Hey, I can even pay in dollars, which, plus the postage = three times the price it would cost in a shop!

Oh, but it gets better, I should just buy any game cus it is written for linux, whether I like it or not. Luckily University students have enough money to buy tons of games that they will never play instead of beer.

You're right, what the heck was I thinking? :wink:

Variable bitrate is great (especially for my purposes) because it is based on the principle that if a section of the song is not very "busy" on the frequency side of things, it requires fewer bits per second then very busy part of the song that might require up to 320 kbps. This way every little piece of the song gets a kbps allocation that meets the requirements.

ogg does supply smaller files, but with constant compression ratios throughout, so as far as optimisation and quality versus size, it doesn't come close. My problem is with sacrifising quality for size, which is not necessary with variable bitrate mp3s.

Or perhaps I really don't understand?

This might not be an option - but why not jack up your linux security so that you do not need to disconnect?

Let's face it, these days we are all paranoid - but to me the biggest threat as a Linux user is trojans and almost all of them are used to attack windoze machines. If you have a good firewall running and get your guards up properly you shouldn't have any problems.

I'm sure people will disagree with me, but I think we are TOO paranoid at times. All the hackers I know are after servers and not very concerned with everyday work stations (unless they want to use your machine as a launch pad, in which case they do not have time to bust up your firewall).

Its Windows XP counterpart is a lot better.

I have resorted to ignoring the Mandrake Control Panel for networking and using webmin for creating all my nfs exports, etc...

When I created a link from /dev/ttySHS0 to /dev/modem, the modem remained after reboot.

Works fine now, except in Mandrake Control Panel (I am not too impressed with the network section of the Control Panel).

In Linux, if a key is recognized, you can make it execute any available command you want

That is the problem: Linux does not recognise these keys. I downloaded a program called hotkeys (not the kde package by the same name). But it does not support this keyboard.

xev reports nothing on the hotkeys. Any ideas? I have searched all over the place...

The problem is that not only /dev/modem dissapears every time, the whole /dev/ttySHSF0 vanishes everytime I restart! wvdial seems to be the only program clever enough to dial on this modem.

I abandoned my last thread to keep things neat...

Ok, success!!! I have the laptop's modem installed - thanks to DragonMage and four hours of frustration! It turns out to be a hsf modem.

Now, the weird thing is that the ONLY way I can dial-up with the modem is if I install and use wvdial and configure it properly.

The modem installs as /dev/ttySHSF0 without a symlink to /dev/modem

Also, whenever I restart, it dissapears and I have to run hsfconfig again...

So - while wvdial has no problems using this modem, I cannot dial through Mandrake Control Panel or add the modem with linuxconf / modemconf

Anyone who can help me clear this last hurdle will surely go to heaven. I can't believe I actually got this sucker to dial!!!

Who can tell me what this means:

I run glxgears and after running for a bit it stops and says: RadeonSwapBuffers: return = -16

Obviously, if you run a game it stops after a while due to the same error (I presume).

This one has me a bit stumped. The card is an ATI Radeon.

Good luck man... incidentally.. how much did you pay for that laptop.. seems pretty good

It was a sweet deal! 11300 Rand, which is around $1100! Really cheap, especially for us South Africans. P4 1.7 Celeron, 128MB RAM, LAN, Modem, 20 GB HDD, Radeon Mobility - now if only it was mine and not my brothers!

It is working great, I will post everything when I have it working properly. Thanks for the links!!