phunni

no-one got any ideas?

If you think you can live without windows for a while, I would suggest getting rid of windwos for now - you can always re-install it if you can't get on with Linux. As Soulse says - you will learn more quickly if you have nothing else to fall back on. Plus I always reckon it's worth sticking with some thing for at least a week (ideally two) regardless of your initial impression. Of course - if you have work that you absolutely must be able to do over the next couple of weeks then you might want to reboot. Good luck

If I have a contents page in Open Office for a document (created in MS Word) how can I jump to a page listed in the contents? It's possible with the same doc in Word - can it be done in OO?

You don't need to do any special configuration - just mount your windows partition, which might look something like: mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc /mnt/windows Then just navigate to where on that drive the executable is and run it using wine - as you did with notepad

If it works just like tele west then it will simply be a case of registering the MAC address of your network card and then using dhcp to get your ip etc... I assume you are connecting to the modem via network cable as opposed to USB...?

I thought I remembered a discussion i nthis thread about how to speed up spamassassin... Still - can anyone help me figure out how to speed it up? I'm already using the daemon...

restarted the machine. So where can I find the kernel config option to enable the sys rq thing?

use the 2.6 kernel and load the appropriate module for your card with modprobe <module name> look on the alsa site for which module you need

nope - still doesn't work. I guess it's either disabled in my kernel (where would the option for that be in the config?) or my machine is too badly crashed. I'm guessign the former simply because I can still switch between virtual consoles - not that any other keys work to actually let me log into them mind you... Gonna have to hit the power switch... :sad:

:( didn't work - assuming I'm doing it right. first three at the same time and the rest one after the other?

I'm in the process of re-installing linux after replacing a dying hard drive. I've got as far as copying my old data into the new home partition and everything has hung... I used to think this happened because of my ATI card - but I've not even started X yet - I'm doing all this in mc My initial instinct is to hit the reset button - but I reckon this may be what killed my old drive and I remember in the old board docs that Tom wrote about a way to cleanly reboot with a key sequence - but I can't find it. Does anyone know where the docs are or how to force my machione to cleanly reboot?

Think I am going to get a new drive. I managed to bakc most of the important stuff up using knoppix so I'm going to try a reformat - but then it's off to buy a new drive. and jet2k5 - don't worry. I certain this is nothing to do with the distro I'm using - it really is a purely hardware problem. I think it was caused by my video card and a later version of xorg and fluxbox not getting on to well. Had a few system lockups and had to switch off - did it a few too many times I think...

hardware - my root partition (I hope it's only the one partition)is dying. I was hoping I could run some kind of disk checking/fixing utility...

anyone?

My hard drive has gone on me - my system has become increadibly unstable - if I can even get it started! I suspect that it's beyond repair, but what would the command be to try and fix a reiserfs partition?

I found it very easy to set up and everything seems to work fine. My only issue is figuring out how to replace all the dockapps I had in flux...

yeah pretty much - and I've got things almost how I could like them. Trying to use gdekslets to make up for the weather and email apps that I had going in flux - not completely right just yet... Not sure whether I'll stick with xfce4 for the longer term, but I'll give it a couple of weeks so that I know I've given it a good shot...

bump... :P

OK - I've just started playing with xfce4 and I have a couple of questions: 1) is there a way to minimise everything in one go? 2) How can I access the root menu with apps open? 3) Is there something I can have in the panel which will show network activity? 4) Is there something I can have in the panel which will show when I have new mail on the server? (not just in a local mbox...) I guess that'll do for now :D

that's true - although the actual compiling may take a lot longer on an older PC

What exactly do mean by XML support? Most browsers, for example, fully support XML Do you mean - what do I need to install to be able to work with XML in PHP? Or do you mean something else?

yeah - basically I want to take two photos of a face (different faces) and morph/merge them into one image of a face. If there isn't a way of actually morphing - is there a way of doing a cut/paste job? i.e. cut the eyes out of one image and place them on the other? I would have expected that to be fairly intuative but, either it's not or I'm thick!

anyone?

Does anyone know how to merge two faces to create one new one with the gimp?

I reckon that, since the card is built in to the laptop, there is no need to move it. Just PM a mod if you disagree and would like it moved...