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Maybe some things didn't stop running correctly. The way to tell is to log out to the console, do a ps ux as your user, and kill off anything that you see running that shouldn't be (basically, anything that you see listed other than bash could be killed). Then log in again, and it should be fine. This happened to me last night, where Nautilus wasn't drawing a desktop on my left monitor, just the taskbar and then that thatched b&w pattern. Try it next time something messes up on you, it should work and maintain your uptime. ;)

I have done it a few times. :) In the first one, I combined two of my coworkers... On the one guy's face, I've put the other guy's nose, mouth and ears. http://aslan.no-ip.com/~dana/gimpdesk.tk/uploads/90 On this one, I took my boss' face and overlaid one of my ex-coworker's eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. http://aslan.no-ip.com/~dana/gimpdesk.tk/uploads/91 They are both pretty funny, and it's easy to do using the clone tool and a soft brush. You should be sure to match skin colors as best you can, as well as layer size so things match up before you start. Check out other gimps that I and my coworkers have done at http://gimpdesk.tk/

I replied to the last one you sent me. I just double-checked to make sure it was in my sent items... If I missed something, you'll have to be more blunt because I don't know the secret ways of the bvc. Anyhow, I did look at gnome-look.org, but the way that they show off the themes annoy me... Hard to explain. That, and I just found the FTP for A.G.O. so I just used DownThemAll in FireFox to get all the stuff at once. ;) Good (fully complete) icon themes are hard to come by.

I downloaded all of the icon themes from A.G.O but I didn't find any that I found were complete enough and just nice enough, so I'm using Noia for now. I just started rearranging my icons in my panels, and as you can see on my desktop, I've made my ~ my Desktop. Nothing fancy, and still searching for decent GTK2 and Metacity themes.

Looks like a dual-monitor setup, which isn't nearly as cool as a widescreen setup. :)

oh come on D, it was your custom panel a year ago that got me started. You can do it. I couldn't at first...it was frustrating and time consuming but like you, I didn't like what was out there, so after waiting 3 years for someone (like roberTO) to do something I decided if I wanted it I'd have to do it. Sad, when you consider how much better artist there are out there compared to my hacks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL! So you're saying that because of me, everyone and their auntie have better themes than me?

That's the thing iphitus, I don't like them. I'm mostly speaking about bvc's screenshots. I wish I had graphical talent. :(

This is not fair. My themes suck.

So? I give you permission to send them to me in an email... BAH.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay. That's exactly how I want my desktop to be set up (except a different wallpaper). I gotta get me all that stuff.

I don't know if there's a single command to show everything, but certain commands you can run are: uname -a uptime df -h free lspci and also try cat /proc/(files in there like cpuinfo and such)

It's Windows 1.01 and you can find it if you look hard enough. ;)

If you would be willing to dedicate some time, about two hours or so (I can't really remember how long it takes anymore) to spend playing Freeciv, please post in here the day(s) and time(s) that you would be able to do. If there was enough interest, I could set up a WebCal for scheduling these games, if we had a lot of people. http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv is the site. We would play using the most current stable version, and I can host the games no problem. The days I would like to dedicate are Sundays from 5:00pm through (Monday) 5:00am Eastern, or Monday from 1:00pm through midnight. Other times are possible, if we do as I said and get a little site or WebCal going or something so we can easily propose games, and then say yay or nay to if we will be able to show up or not. The reason I thought of this was from VeeDub's similar post about another game, and I think Freeciv really deserves more attention than it is getting. I want to do this as a stress-free way to take a break from everyday life. It'd be a way to force yourself and myself to relax for a short time every week or two. Please reply if you feel likewise.

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Where can I get those icons? they look like SVG... I fell in love with SVG and cel-shading thanks to Wind Waker. :P

I hear you can run Google in Linux but you need Cedega and the IE engine to do it.

You can download the Linux version here: http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ No GUI yet, so I guess it only is useful for people with modded Xboxes and stuff. If you aren't sure what this does, it lets you play networkable games for your consoles over the Net for free (ie, avoiding Xbox Live from MS, ableit only for system-link games). Anyhow, just thought I'd post it.

Even if your user doesn't have a password, you might still be prompted for one. Just hit enter. I don't advise you log in as root. Make note during install what your username is. I recommend you make it all lowercase, and I DO recommend you put a password. This is separate from the root user, which also should have a separate password. This time when you're installing, I recommend you fix the broken part by installing Gnome instead of KDE. ;) Well, you can use what you want, but Gnome rules.

I think it depends on your sound card drivers and whatever wrapper, if any, that you are using. I have a SB Live! 5.1 and I use ALSA and I can play music at the same time as playing a game using BMP.

Wow, it's been over a year since the initial release. I haven't played much since I posted this originally... I should try out the newer beta. But then again, I can play MOHAA on my Xbox just fine. ;)

From: http://curmudgeongamer.com/article.php?sto...040904215153278 Dan 'theoddone33' Olson has put together a list of ten critical observations that every potential Linux gamer should consider before buying Transgaming's WINE-based product Cedega (formerly WineX). With Dan's permission, as this is a potentially more appropriate forum, it is mirrored below. Perhaps Dan's even tone will be more appealing than a certain more shrill curmudgeoning. This document aims to be a summary of the major issues we see with TransGaming and Cedega. While not everyone may agree with every point, we are convinced that these are things that need to be confronted before subscribing to Cedega. You are free to reproduce this document in an unmodified form. If you wish to provide a link back to this page, that would be nice as well. Comments go to theoddone33@timedoctor.org. * Performance Cedega is designed to maximize compatibility with Windows games. However, many users find that their favorite games work poorly in Cedega, if at all. While TransGaming offers voting services to determine the most popular games, there are still hundreds of games that are not playable in Cedega. For games that are not officially supported by TransGaming, users may find that the performance of Cedega is "hit or miss." * Pricing TransGaming charges $5 a month for the use of the commercial version of Cedega, yet makes a development version freely available. The commercial version has additional support for games that use copy-protection methods such as SafeDisc, among other features. The commercial version of Cedega requires a minimum subscription of 3 months, and all games that it can be used with must be purchased separately. * Progress TransGaming's list of supported titles has not grown significantly since the first release of WineX in 2001. Today, less than 10 games have been given a 5-star rating, meaning that they can be expected to run without problems. Many games run with only minor annoyances, but they are not officially supported. TransGaming has also been criticized for slow release times, with 3 month subscriptions starting and ending without seeing a new release. * Potential TransGaming has stated that their goal is 100% compatibility with Windows games. However, it is highly improbable that they will ever attain this goal. Windows and Direct3D are in active development, and TransGaming developers will always be playing a game of "catch-up", while at the same time trying to find and fix current bugs in Cedega. In a sense, Cedega's destiny is tied to Microsoft as much as it is tied to TransGaming. * Priorities While TransGaming still offers Cedega to Linux gamers for the time being, it is clear that their primary interests reside elsewhere. They actively produce titles for Mac OSX, and their website advertises plans to support XBox and PS2 in the future. TransGaming has stated that no income from Cedega subscriptions is used to fund their other ventures, but while their finances may not be divided, the same cannot be said of their interests. * Promises TransGaming began with the promise to release their changes to the Wine project under an "open" license when the number of subscribers reached 20,000. Shortly after this, they introduced code into the project which they are not able to release openly due to contractual obligations. While the current number of subscribers has not been publically announced, it is doubtful that TransGaming would be able to release all of their changes when this milestone is reached. TransGaming has, however, given code back to Wine at various times. * Packaging While TransGaming offers a free development version of Cedega, they have repeatedly threatened Linux distributions that have offered packages of it to their users. Debian and Gentoo have both withdrawn packages of the development version of Cedega at the request of TransGaming, who stated that they would no longer offer the free version if it was packaged by third-party Linux distributions. * Portability TransGaming advertises Cedega as the world's foremost portability solution, and they claim that it can be used to migrate applications seamlessly between platforms such as PC, PS2, and even PDAs. These claims are sketchy for a variety of technical reasons. One example is that most PC games use over 100M of memory, while the PS2 has only 32M of main RAM. Cedega's strategy of reinterpreting runtime calls is likely to add more overhead than it can reduce, and is not sufficient for this task. * Propaganda For as long as TransGaming has had a website, it has been filled with dubious claims about the company, about the game industry, and about porting software. Unsurprisingly, most of these claims paint TransGaming in a positive light. However, many of them fail to hold up under scrutiny. While one hopes that this is simply the result of poor research, it is very easy to suspect otherwise. * Prevention There is speculation that Cedega discourages both users and companies from investing in native Linux versions of popular games. Many feel that the running a PC game with Cedega does nothing to indicate to publishers that there is a market for Linux games. TransGaming has stated that Cedega leads to increased acceptance of Linux as a desktop operating system. However this claim is debatable, as Cedega is of primary interest only to those who already use Linux regularly and reboot to Windows for playing games.

I don't recommend running it, only using it as a base to install. It's just because of my personal experience, that's all. Hey, whatever works. :) To clarify this, I *do* recommend it for production servers. [copy of preceding post removed by spinynorman]

Yeah, it doesn't show anything. Sometimes it just goes away. It's sorta annoying. Hey, can you get Epiphany for Windows?

It's not about Debian being "smart" at all. You obviously miss the point of it all. I do recommend starting with Stable. Why? Because it's stable. It's been tested. When I was starting out with Debian, I tried all sorts of CDs, and they all had issues except for the official Stable images. If these issues were fixed, then that's great. Progeny had a project going where they dropped the Red Hat installer overtop of the Debian tools, and it seemed alright. I like where Debian is at right now, but I also don't object to these sorts of things being around to hold people's hands. But then again, that's why we have distros like Knoppix and Linspire.

Have you tried moving it to another PCI slot? If it's ISA, you might need to know the settings (DMA/IO) and pass those as parameters for the module.