fuzzylizard

Hmm, thanks for the replies. I think I will hold off till the 2.6 kernel is finalized and easier to install. Or until I get a computer where the install does not matter. Right now I need my linux machine for school.

If you ever do get this all figured out, how about writing a tutorial for the rest of us? Also, in order to accomplish this, how did you begin? Did you have to download the entire mandrake install tree onto your hard drive?

I noticed on the contrib section of the download site that there are rpm's available for kernel 2.6 test 5 (or 6, I can't remember exactly). I would love to try the new kernel out, but I am wondering what is the best way of doing this? Is it really as simple as downloading one of the rpm packages, installing it, making the necessary changes to lilo and rebooting? Or do I need to download an rpm and recompile it? (I have never done a kernel recompile and would really like to avoid this step if possible) Also, are there any real advantages to running the 2.6 kernel on a home desktop computer or are most of the improvements mainly targeted at servers?

What exactly are you having problems with? Also, are you launching the text editors as root or as a normal user? If you are not launching the text editors as root then you will not be able to saved the changes you make to the config files. What you need to do is to su to root in a shell and then try editing the files. > su enter password: # kate filename.conf obviously you will need to enter your root password and the proper name of the file you wish to edit. This will launch the editor as root and allow you to modify and save the files.

So the computers you want to share the same IP address are in separate geographical locales? (i.e. they are not on the same physical lan network then?) That makes it a lot harder. However, the same principles should apply. As long as you are not expecting the computers to all be doing the same thing, you have two possible solutions: 1. setup on computer in front as a firewall running nat. Then as requests come into it, use port forwarding to forward the requests to the different computers. Theoretically this should work. However, you may need two interent connections in order to accomplish this. You would have to take the port forward signal from the second ethernet connection and route it back onto the internet. 2. There are various forms of cluster computing / load balancing software that can handle this. Usually you have all the computers together in the same room, however, it can still work if they are geographically separate. All the computers do the same thing, and as requests come in, they are routed to the server doing the least amount of work. I don't have any links for you though. Neither solutions is easy to setup though.

The easiest way is to set it all up when you do the install. Red Hat is really good at detecting a windows install and configuring the boot loader so you can boot into either OS. However, there should be a way to do this after the install as well. I know in Mandrake you could just go into the Mandrake Control Centre and click on bootloader and install the bootloader into the mbr and that should take care of it. So, there must be something similiar in Red Hat. With that said, make sure you back everything up just in case something goes wrong and toast both OS's

Interesting, that explains problems that I used to have trying to get it to run. Now, I always unarchive things from the command line, so I haven't had any problems. Glad you got it working.

I tried using Gaim with MSN and got disconnected due to an unsupported protocol error. I realize that as of Oct 15, Microsoft supposedly had stopped accepting any other client other than their own. However, kopete had managed to find a way around this. Has anyone been able to get Gaim to work with MSN in the last few weeks?

Yea, I am starting to get the idea that I am going to have to move to gaim. I really don't want to because I do like kopete, but I can't have an app that eats up that much memory and crashes.

I have been using Kopete as my IM client, but I have found that it seems to be a major memory hog and everytime I try to close it (i.e. exit the program) it crashes on me. And I mean literally everytime. Has anyone else noticed this or experienced this behaviour? So what do people find works the best for IM (aim, msn, jabber, etc) in terms of resources and stability?

I thought I had this all sorted out, but today I try to start Mozilla and I get the same error as before. Check this thread out for the history of my problem: http://mandrake-forum.org/index.php?showtopic=9063 That time I had to remove my .mozilla folder to solve the problem. This time, I have removed that folder and am still getting the error and no Mozilla. So, I guess I am back to uninstalling/reinstalling Mozilla and trying for a little stability that way. The question is: what is causing this? This is getting to be very frustrating Edit: I have now uninstalled Mozilla and deleted all associated directories and I am still getting the error. I have no idea what else to try short of a full install.

Yea, I always get this error that eclipse can't find a certain package whenever I do that. Whereas, when I start it up from outside the directory, everything works fine.

Windows secure, absolutely, that's why corporate firewalls and routers run *nix. Because windows is secure. And even a lot of those silly little router/firewalls that you can by from DLink or Linksys run some form of embedded linux - yep, windows is secure, no doubt about it.

Shells as in Bash, Bourne, Korn, and/or C? Or shells as in Konsole, Eterm, Aterm, etc?

Personally, if you want to learn OO programming then I would suggest SmallTalk or Ruby. Both are pure OO languages, whereas Java is not. However, if those are unavailable, then definitely learn java.

I have searched, continually it seems, but perhaps my lack of familiarity means I didn't recognise what was found as what I wanted! Give this a shot. It is an article over at DevX that both explains a Linked List and has the code attached. http://www.inquiry.com/techtips/cpp_pro/10...n/10min0599.asp

That did it. I deleted my .mozilla profile directory and it started up just fine. Thanks, I hadn't thought about deleting that. Cool, I now have Mozilla back and I have Flash support. Thank you.

You know, if you do a search, you will probably find all the code you need on the web for a linked list. It tends to be a fairly standard learning exercise.

Well, I have now removed the package using the GUI package tool and reinstall it using urpmi twice and it still doesn't work. There is something else going wrong here. I just have no clue as to what. RIP Mozilla, it was nice while it lasted. I am glad I have opera installed and working. If I ever get this back up and running, I definitely think I can live without flash. rant... how the (*#^$(#*$& does installing three packages completely screw a program like Mozilla. Yea, Linux is ready for the )#($*)#($* desktop, definitely!!! (sorry about that, just a little frustrated right now )

Nope, no error in the shell window, just the error dialog box that I mentioned above. I tried uninstalling the FlashPlayer and the libstdc++ rpm's and Mozilla is still screwed. So... anyone know how I can reinstall Mozilla from the CD's?

Okay, that basically killed Mozilla for me. I did both of the above, I used the rom version on the site here and I had to install libstdc++ as well and now I get this error Error launching browser window: TypeError: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no properties So now I try to uninstall everything and hope I can fix Moz.

I have been trying to install the flash plugin on my mandrake 9.2 box. I downloaded the flash installer from macromedia and ran it as root and everything seemed to work with no problem -- I checked the plugin directory and the two flash files are there. However, when I open mozilla, it is not seeing the plugins. Has anyone else had this problem? (I posted this yesterday, but it seems to have dissapeared. Sorry if this gets posted twice)

Skip the rpm's and just down this package... http://download2.eclipse.org/downloads/dro...1-linux-gtk.zip Clicking that link should start the download of the newest stable gtk version of eclipse. Once downloaded, move it into your home directory and either use ARK to unzip the file or type this into a konsole window > unzip eclipse-SDK-2.1.1-linux-gtk.zip then, from a konsole window, type in > eclipse/eclipse and everything should work

Okay, one question -- are you building your own LinkedList class? Basically, you create a LinkedList object, that object will have several methods. It is up to the LinkedList object/class to create the nodes. As far as the main is concerned, all you need to do to add something to a linked list is to go list.add(Object); The Object is whatever you are placing into the linked list. Therefore, you need to do one of two things: 1. either place all the info -- the record -- into an object 2. or create a specialized linkedlist that holds the record The first option is the best Then, within the add method inside the Linked List you create the new node. This allows you to change the implementation of the Linked List code without it affecting the rest of your code. Generally, inside of your linked list you will have an inner class that is called Node. it is this class that you use to create the new node. (not real code) You add method would look something like this public void add(Object o) { Node next = new Node(); next.data = o; next.nextLink = head; head.next = next; } That is the general idea (although I think that is a mixture of Java and C) Does that help, or just confuse the issue more?

I do believe you are screwed. However, the best thing to do in this situation is to reinstall windows XP. Try to use the rescue options on the installer CD, if that does not work, then try to do a full intall. There is a little known option in the 2000/XP install CD that if you select to do a full install and the cd can find an existing installation on the hard drive, it will give you the option to repair that installation. This will basically go through a full install (so you will have to reinstall all updates and service packs), but it will do it into the existing windows directory and will attempt to keep the registry intact. Although, you may have to reinstall a lot of the programs on your computer afterwards. It will also repair the mbr. It is a little scary to watch, but it does work. I have had to do it several times on several different computers. Once you have windows up and running then you can try and repair or reinstall Linux. good luck