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Personally I have never had a problem running eclipse on my computers. I am using Mandrake 9.2 and it runs fine. However, I downloaded it from the eclipse.org website and not from jpackage or rpmfind.net. Since it is a java program, all you really needed is java 1.4.2 installed properly on your computer and it should run. That is the SDK version and not the jre version. All I did was to untar the GTK version of eclipse into my home directory and start the program. It does have one little quirk if you do it this way though, you must issue the 'eclipse' start command from outside the eclipse directory. i.e. from your home directory run > eclipse/eclipse and it should run.

For just the firewall, I would suggest Smothwall GPL. It is incredibley easy to install and get up and running. For both a firewall and a print server, I would probably recommend Slackware -- although, it might be a little bit of a task to install and get running -- or you could go with SME Server. It supposedly handles both the firewall duties and the server duties. I tried looking for a link to this product, but it seems it may have disappeared. Here is an article on it thoug with some links http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/pr_sme_01.html

Cool, I was having the same problem, but that fixed it. Make sure that it is checked to start upon request and it should solve the problem. Did it for me.

No, I have never heard of a way to migrate a windows 2003/IIS6 server over to Apache seamlessly or automatically. The only thing that I can suggest is that because Apache is a true Unix based program (ie it uses config files for everything) there should be a way to script the process. That way you could just output (somehow) a user list from IIS6 and have the script create all the requried accounts for Apache. The script should even be able to restart apache once it is done. I know of several admins who manage apache in this way. Whenever they need to add a new user, they simply run a script that does all the work for them. Not sure if that helps though...

Hey, I just upgraded my system to Mandrake 9.2 and one of the things not installed was freecell. I love this game. I tried looking for it in the Software Installer and couldn't find it. Does anyone know what package this little game is included in?

Cool, thanks, did all that, but I can't write to the share. I have two entries in my fstab file: 1. that uses the //host/share mountpoint smbfs user,<path to auth file> 0 0 technique 2. and the other one passes the username and password explicitly, and I can not write on either. argh... Someone has got to figure out a way of making this networking stuff easier. Anyway, thanks for the post.

I have a windows share that I can see and access if I use Konquerer and type in smb://win2k/share I can also access the share using linNeirbourhood. However, I want to share to be permanently mounted. I know there is a line that I can add to my fstab file, I just can remember what it is or what the correct parameters are. Anyone know what the line should be?

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High quality release!!! No, Mandrake didn't rush this release out the door, not at all. Everyone in favour of a 6 month release cycle, please raise your hands and get ready to screw up your computers.

Since java support varies from browser to browser, learning awt is a very helpful thing. Swing is not supported by all browsers, therefore, if you want to make cross browser applets, learn awt. Almost everything you learn in awt is transferable to swing -- i.e. in awt you have a Button class, in swing a JButton class, in awt a Panel class, in swing a JPanel class, and so on. Swing is simply an extension to awt. Just swing is better for application building and is, therefore, taught instead of awt.

Not really sure what you mean by old stuff? If you are talking about AWT versus Swing, then perhaps, however, Swing is built on top of AWT and so, therefore, learning AWT will only help you in designing Swing programs. However, if you are a total java and OOp newbie, then as long as the course teaches the fundamentals of java and object-oriented design and programming it will be worth taking. If it is a complete beginner course, then it may not include that much swing and gui design anyway. I say take it.

I installed Mandrake 9.2 -- fresh install -- and also installed all the updates, including the new kernel, however, I am having major problems getting samba to work. Problem: 1. None of the computers can access the share on my Linux server. They can all see it, but can not log in. 2. I can not get the Linux server to see the share on my win2k box using MCC - Samba config tool. However, if I type smb://win2k/share into Konquerer, I can login and browse the share no problem. And I can not remember the correct line to add to my fstab file to permanently mount the share. Any suggestions? - no, I am not running a firewall on any of the computers - yes, as far as I can tell, I have the same user on all computers In 9.1 this took me all of about 5 minutes to setup, with 9.2 I have been puzzling over this for about an hour.

In a sense it is. However, another way of looking at them is that you have a series of containers and into each container you place an object. Once the object is in the linked list, the only way to get to it is by traversing the list. You lose the original reference to that object. myObject = new Object(); linkedList.addObject(myObject); myObject = null; The above code may look like I have created an object and then destroyed it, but this is not what has happened. I have actually created an object with a reference to it -- myObject (the name of the reference and not the object) -- and then placed my object into my linked list. Now, there is a container/node in the linked list that points to my object (i.e. it is still in memory and can still be accessed), and then I simply kill the original reference. Linked Lists are great, but they can be a little hard to conceptualize and understand in the beginning. Good Luck

As far as I know, no. You can not dynamically name objects in Java (however, I may be wrong). Why do they need names though? Especially if they are to be placed in a linked list? One way to get around this is to add a name attribute to your objects along with appropriate get/set methods. Then, when you create the object, you can dynamically give it a name, and if you need to know who it is, you can just ask it. Plus, when you create an object, technically, the name that you give it is simply the name given to the reference pointer that points to that object's location in memory. You are not, technically, naming the object. Once you place the object in the linked list, you will remove and lose the original reference to the object and, hence, according to your model, also lose the name. Therefore, if the objects do need "names", the above approach is better.

hehe, true. I guess it's time to download all the updates. Plus, I guess I can wait a few more days for the release of the CD's. Will they be released through bittorrent, or will I have to fight with everyone else for the ftp servers? So, will MandrakeUsers.org make the bittorrent ISO's available once Mandrake releases the ISO's to the public?

About 4 CD's. :D

Aside from their lack of mentioning ACPI support and whether it worked or not, The article is not exactly a ringing endorsement for 9.2. Mix this with the news on PCLO that there are 76 update packages for downloading just a week after release makes me start to wonder about this release. Plus, I was one of those people waiting for 9.2 so that I could install it on my Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook and finally use ACPI. Guess I will be waiting for Red Hat 10.

Hmmm.... After reading this little news item on PCLO, I think I will wait "76 new packages for 9.2, including new kernel" http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=7912 Sounds like they jumped the gun a little bit with this release. Maybe I will just try and reinstall 9.1 to fix some of my problems. Until installing Tex's kde upgrades, it worked fine. (Just was really looking forward to 9.2. Hmm... I wonder how hard it is to install SuSE???) I wonder if there is any chance that the download ISO's to be released next week will include all the updates and the new kernel? It makes sense to me.

All that is missing is a floppy drive. Everything else is there including a CD drive that is bootable. It is a desktop computer with a bootable CD drive, a network card, and a working version of Mandrake 9.1. However, I am not a club member and am tired of waiting for the ISO's to be released, so I figured I would find another way of upgrading. As far as I can tell, my two best solutions are to point urpmi at the cooker, or some other source, and do an upgrade that way. Although, I have a lot of tex rpms on my system and a lot of other software as well. Or, I do a network install. I just don't know how to do this though. Any suggestions as to which is the best route to take? I also have a sound card problem that I was hoping a fresh install would fix.

Not sure what it is, but everything on the site is coming from this domain http://www.i-p.com/ Looks fishy to me

To begin with, can someone point me towards a tutorial or article about how to do a full network install? I really want to install 9.2 and am tired of waiting for the end of the month. The only problem is that my computer does not have a floppy drive.

Hey, I am trying to create a rather large shell script for a course that I am taking in school on Databases. The problem that I am having is this: Instead of making it one very big script, I have chopped it up into several smaller scripts. This works except that I have several variables that I need to monitor through all the scripts. Thus, is there anyway of making these variables known to all scripts? Anyway of declaring them as global? The only thing that I can think of is to define them as environment variables, but I am not sure how to do this. Any suggestions? EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out. Thanks though.

Basically the title says it all. I am wondering what the best program to use is to download the soon to be released iso's of Mandrake 9.2. Should I use the download manager in Mozilla, or wget, or a straight ftp program, are there real download managers for Linux like Go!zilla and download accelerator out there? What is the best and fastest program? (I am on a 1.5 meg DSL line, so bandwidth is hardly a problem) Thanks.

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In theory yes. However, if you do do this, make sure you get cross-over cables instead of the regular straight twisted pair cables. Otherwise, your computers won't be able to talk to each other. The one problems you may encounter is that any internet sharing/routing/dhcp software you may use will probably be setup to work across a single nic card -- as opposed to 2 or 3 of them. So you may need to configure some stuff yourself. The switch is definitely the better way to go. Switches are not that expensive and what happens when you get that 5th or 6th computer?