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  1. get thee to CVS! barring that try here http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~lmontel/k...kde-3.2-alpha2/ it says alpha 2 but they look beta 1ish to me :D
  2. hope this works. I DID IT. was as simple as going to the reg expr part of tha manual. and now i give you, tha if (ereg("(tutorials)", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]))
  3. Make a logo for slicker and forever be immortalized in HTML. check it out if you dare! do you dare? do you? do you really?! http://slicker.sf.net/contest.php
  4. well there really isn't any "improper" source so that's be a yes
  5. Browse: [About the FAQ Forum] [Table of Contents] [FAQs] [Contribute] GQ-08: How To Migrate from Windows to Linux OK, this is it. I've been meaning to, and now I've finally gone and done it. The definitive guide, remember that as you rip this to shreds. Prep Work This guide was made under the assumption that the people reading this are solely Windows XP users who want to switch to or try out the Gnu/Linux operating system (OS). All this means is that the instructions are XP-cific. Heh, I made a funny. The users of other Windows OSes can still follow and generally be guided in the right direction. The first thing to do is to get some info on your system's innards. Boot up into Windows. When you're finally logged in and on the desktop find the My Computer icon. Right-click the My Computer icon and from the menu that pops up select Properties (on the bottom). When the System Properties window pops up click on the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button. You should now see a tree view of all the hardware that is recognized by the OS. Write down the name and model of the Video Card Sound Card Modem/Ethernet Card Monitor - You should also have/get the horizontal and vertical frequencies of your monitor (available in user manual) although you may not need it. Any hardware you stuck in there. e.g. TV Card. Now I've heard that you should defrag your hard drive because unless you have a second, you'll have to partition your drive. I usually skip the defragger and just use Partition Magic. There are also other alternatives (more on this later). If you choose to defrag, depending on the size of your hard drive, you'll have a (long) while to wait. After you finish defragging do it again. This is just because the provided Windows app never does it totally properly the first time. Speaking of the defragger it can be found in the Start Menu at All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter Obtaining Linux If you have a dial-up connection I suggest you buy or borrow a copy from someone. If you have high speed Internet access and a CD burner you may download ISO files which can then be burned as CDs. As always I recommend starting with Mandrake Linux because its easy to install and use (and looks good). Redhat and SuSE are other downloadable options. If you like it after you try, then by all means buy a boxed copy when you see it in a store. Boxed versions have more software than is available for downloabable edition,come with support and for good documentation (in the case of Mandrake and SuSE). I've never bought a boxed Redhat product :-/ Let's recap. If you don't have a CD burner, buy or borrow the disks. If you do have a burner: Get to a download site and get the ISOs. ISO files are CD images, i.e. they are replicas of CDs which can produce new CDs when used with a CD burning utility. The FAQ section has how tos on CD burning IM-13: Copying & Burning CD's with K3b or CL-06: How to burn data CDs from the command line? Space If you can afford it, get thee a new hard drive. A 20 gig 5400 rpm Hard Drive probably is around $40 now. It's pretty cheap. If you can't afford it then you'll have to repartition. If you use Mandrake (MDK), they have a partition app that works with NTFS and FAT32 formatted disks. Be careful however. Defrag then back up all essential data. Shit can still happen. There are also commercial and free partition resizing programs available. The best IMO is Partition Magic, but there is also the Ranish Partition Manager, which is free. Set aside at least 1 gig for Linux, 2 if possible, 5 at best. If you can get that 20 gig HD I'd recommend 9.x gigs for Linux and 10 for a FAT32 formatted disk (you actually only get 19.something gigs from a 20 GB HD). The FAT32 partition is for stuff like Documents, Movies and Music to share between Windows and Linux. You see, Linux can see Windows data but Windows can't see stuff in Linux, (it's just not that advanced, and 'cuz windows sucks!) Installing Linux If your computer is old, you may need to go into the BIOS and enable the computer to boot from a CD-ROM first (as in before anything else). The motherboard/computer manual should tell you how to do this. In case you've lost it, the manuals are usually available online as well. Pop the burnt CD into the CD drive and wait for the magic to happen. On the MDK CD1 are webpages walking you through the install process. You can view these in Internet Exploder (IE), or a proper browser like Netscape, Mozilla or Opera. Once you've started the install just read carefully and follow the instructions. The installer will ask for confirmation before making any earth shattering changes to your PC. Don't bypass adding a normal user account and password for that account, even if you don't want to have to type it in everytime you log on. That would kind of defeat the whole security aspect of Linux. You can always select to automatically log in when booting up, thereby bypassing the log in screen, but those not physically on your computer will have a hard time getting in without that :) Also don't forget to add a root user password. Migrating This is the fun part! I guess I could've called it "Gettin' the hell outta Dogde!" but I thought that was a bit much. Now that you've used Linux and fell in love with it you'll eventually stop using Windows and want to get rid of it (after all it's taking up valuable mp3 space). Let the migration begin. Once in Linux you can set it up to migrate a lot of (or a little of, or all of, depending on what you have) your important data from Windows. You'll have to be able to read data from your Windows partition. MDK 9 and above will be able to set this up automatically. To learn how to do it manually drop by mandrakeusers.org and use the search button :P It's been asked a couple of times. Also it may be in the mandrakeusers.org faq section now. .:.Bookmarks.:. Practically all major Linux browsers are capable of importing IE bookmarks (Opera, Konqueror, Mozilla). The IE bookmarks for XP, 2000 can be found in: C:Documents and Settings%username%Favorites If you were using Mozilla, Netscape or Opera in Windows the bookmark files can just be copied to your $HOME directory where $HOME=/home/name_of_user. Linux doesn't have Program Files directories instead it has hidden directories where these files are usually stored. These directories have a . before them. e.g. The mozilla directory is .mozilla .:.Address Book.:. It is possible to copy your address book info to Linux. Both Kmail and Evolution are able to do this. To my knowledge KMail (which is a part of KDE) does it better. Kmail can import from Outlook Express 4 and 5 folders, Eudora's address book and MS Exchange PABs, while Evolution AFAIK can import Outlook Express 4 .mbx files. .:.Documents.:. Programs, Programs, Programs Now that you've copied those .doc, .ppt and other files you'll probably need to need to open and edit or at least look at them sometime. Linux has multiple solutions to this problem. I've found out that there's already a site that does this so I'll link it but give my list too anyways. I spent too much time makin' it look pretty to just let it go like that! Anyhoo, I'll list the main ones that I use here. Feel free to e-mail to get a prog added to my list. Oh yeah, and just because something isn't on my list doesn't mean that there isn't a Linux analog. It just means I don't know about or use it. And now, without further ado, THE LIST: Office Software Audio Player Instant Messaging Multimedia Graphics, 3D Renderers Web Browsers Miscellaneous ::References:: I^3 Yeah I know, it's a shameless plug.
  6. KD EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR /me looks at rcxau
  7. yup the apache2 manual that can be installed viw rpm is great
  8. I'm trying something out w/ php but I'm kinda stuck now and the manuals kinda long. k here goes. I have this one one of my pages if (strstr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], "tutorials.html")) { } which is basically supposed to show up tutorials in the menu if the current page is tutorials.html. I just realized that this is pretty useless since all the links on the tutorails page point to the same thing. I want to do something like match a regular expression (i think that what it's called) so i would have something like if (strstr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], "tutorials*.html")) { } where * would be the actual tutorial pages. So if you're on one of those pages, and want to get to another tutorial, just click on that link. help
  9. you have one of those CDs? No, I ordered the download edition on CD from www.cheapbytes.com but it should be here tommorrow or monday. Does anybody know if it's the installer or the driver? If it's just he installer, I could just dissable that drive for the install and use my burner, then reconnect the LG once I'm done installing. disconnect the LG then install.oh yeah, then KEEP it disconnected. at least until a kernel update or LG fixes the problem.
  10. thanks for bringing that to my attention. we helped each other out there :D
  11. you have one of those CDs? No, I ordered the download edition on CD from www.cheapbytes.com but it should be here tommorrow or monday. Does anybody know if it's the installer or the driver? If it's just he installer, I could just dissable that drive for the install and use my burner, then reconnect the LG once I'm done installing. disconnect the LG then install.
  12. i just realize that i made mistake should be export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/install/cd
  13. what install script you using? linux_installer.sh? did you follow the faq instructions exactly or just added SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/install/cd
  14. i have, that's when i made the modification to the FAQ insturctions
  15. does konqueror work in kde or any other WM (blackbox , ICEwm)?
  16. does /home/user1/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml exist?
  17. hey germ could you please e-mail the cooker ML or GC and post your info. Or just post it here and i'll forward it.
  18. //zaurus/home /mnt/Zaurus smbfs user,username=% 0 0 that may work. it works for normal files systems
  19. from cooker ML. thought i'd drop a note here
  20. well then let's move on to the obvious. what vid card do you have and have you messed around with their settings lately (installed dri or firegl drivers, etc)?
  21. You know the drop only happen when the cpu is idle don't you? Go to 2200 and play a bit of quake, and watch the smoke appears from your cpu but go ahead.. I always like a little bit of destruction (especially if the thing being destroyed is not mine) Anyway, I did try that utitlity and watched my temp drop from high 30s -low 40s to around 33C. Quite a drop for an overclocked 1700+ :) :( did not know that. grr. it's 2100 fer me
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