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I still think it would be a useful resource to have here - especially if gentoo no longer provide these docs... Perhaps it might be better posted in tips & tricks or somewhere else rather than here...

Would it break any copyrights or anything to post it here? It might be a useful resource...

stage1 would be more compiled on your system - but less pre compiled Stage1, in theory, would be faster....

The first ever gentoo install I did used a stage 1 tarball. It turned out this wasn't any more difficult than stage 2 or 3, it just took longer. Basically the difference is simply that more of your system is compiled during install rather than before so you get more of the optimisations that gentoo users get so excited about...

Mandrake 8.0

Dual boot is a good idea - although there are worse things yo ucan do than go back to windows if it works better for you. It's something I do periodically. I currently have windows only on my laptop (the computer I'm now using) and dual boot on my desktop. My desktop is almost never used because it's in my (baby) daughter's room. You'll come back eventually... go on... you know you want to try it...

I'm not convinced that's the slit you're looking at - I think it is gdesklets. All the slit does is provide a place for certain apps (usually small ones!) to be docked. These may be system admin/reporting apps - or games, or application launchers or anything really...

Actually they didn't make it up - they nicked it from somewhere else! :P Don't be put off by the MS link - C# is a good language and will continue to get better. If it included enforced exception handling and methods where overridable by default then it would be an excellent language in my opinion. VB is for monkeys and spoils .Net a little bit, but C# is very good. It is essentially Java with a slight C/C++ feel. It's fully OO (very good). There isn't any link between C# and web design as such - in the same that there isn't for Java. But it is useful for building web applications and Web Services, but you still need someone to design the (probably) html from end for your web applications. If you know Java and/or C++ (especially Java) then C# will be easy for you to pick up. The only problem is a lack of a decent IDE for it...

I only d oweb development so I'll have to go slightly off topic. My job is a programmer and we tend to develop on windows and deploy on unix (Solaris). We do all of that in Java. I have recently, however, started to develop Web Services in C#. Some of the visual tools in VS 2005 are really nice and make life very easy. C# is a good language as well (mainly because it's a Java rip off :P ) but it's not yet as robust as Java is - no forced exception handling is my main issue there...

It was a half serious question - I know a lot of people don't like Java, but I've been a Java man for years; it provides my income! I've now started looking at C# which is interpreted as well and is actually pretty fast. I think because there aren't the same portability considerations that you have with Java. With mono you can run C# on unix as well... Anyway - this is all getting a little

Hey! What's wrong with Java!? :P

me too I guess... Although I just learned something interesting (relatively) about SSL as well... I'm having a very educational day!

neddie, what makes you think you can run eclipse without a seperqate compiler? I was always under the impression that it uses the compiler that comes with the JDK. If it does come bundled with a compiler then I'm pretty sure it would be the Sun one anwyay...

I've used mono (although for c# not VB.Net) and it's easy to set up and use and works well. It will support VB.Net as opposed to VB6 and there are some significant differences. VB6 won't work on Linux I'm afraid. VB.Net only does because mono is an implementation of the .Net framework. In theory any precompiled VB.Net code should work in mono straight away since it all gets compiled to the MSIL which is (afaik) the same as compiled c#. It's the compiler that will be part of any new mono VB developments... Java is easy to set up - download from Sun and google installing it under Linux - it won;t take long and is easy. I would also recommend using eclipse. It's a brilliant and free IDE

It's been a year or two since I had this running, but I did have it working to sync an ipaq to evolution via multisync. I'm afraid my experience isn't recent enough to be of much help to you, but I just wanted to encourage you that, while it is hard work, it is possible...

Why? OO isn't all that. B) Yes it is! B)

Consider learning C# instead. You can still develop it using Visual Studio - but it can also be run on Linux via mono... It can be developed on Linux as well - although none of the IDEs are really mature enough yet imho... Consider learning C# instead. You can still develop it using Visual Studio - but it can also be run on Linux via mono... It can be developed on Linux as well - although none of the IDEs are really mature enough yet imho...

There is a Project manager app called Mr Project. I haven't really used it much but it looks quite good...

If you install gaim then you will be able to chat to msn contacts as well as people on other chat protocols... Edit: One thing I should say is that gaim is (I believe) in the normal package repositories

Games - we need more commercial games to be released for Linux imho...

Whether your email is hotmail or not isn't relevant - an msn one should work. The protocol for msn has changed a few times and clients - e.g. gaim - have had to update to keep up. It's unlikely that anyone would be able to help you unless you have the latest version of gaim - which might in itself solve your problem. I appreciate that you have dial up and therefore updating is not an aggreeable solution, but it's likely that an old version of gaim is simply incompatible with the current msn protocol and will never work...

There is a .dvdriprc file in your home directory. Inside it look for: 'base_project_dir' => { 'value' => '/mnt/key', 'type' => 'dir', 'label' => 'Default data base directory' mine points to /mnt/key - point yours wherever you like, but make sure it has plenty of space - at least 6GB...

:D I do see you're point! Still seems like creating another evil empire to me though...

Hmmm - if that's the case then no thanks! It would be a thin client to a system than google owns, maintains and controls. I'd rather have my own PC and control it myself... That said - it would be a blow for Microsoft...

I've used Linux, Pocket PC and Palm on PDA's before and they are all good imho - although Linux is the least "polished", but I still found it very useable. It also had less apps for it at the time - but that's probably changed. The bottom line is that, out of all of these, Palm is by far the easiest to sync with your Linux desktop. The others can be done, but it's much more work...