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This is not uncommon though. For a while, the best drivers to use, for linux or windows, where several steps behind what were the latest ones. I am not sure how much this has changed as I have not upgraded my NVidia drivers in quite a while. I found a set that worked great with my system and I have just stayed there. Just because the drivers are newer does not in anyway mean that they will be better. In fact, it is not uncommon for nvidia to go through a couple of bad driver releases before getting ones that are substantially better. (At least this has been true in the past). If you don't the drivers than simply go back to a set that you did like and stay there until the next release comes out.

I would love to find a good rpm source that would allow me to simply and easily install XFree 4.4. The new version solves a huge bug I have with the integrated video and the bios on my laptop.

I agree. It will be interesting to see how much changes between now and when the 'FINAL' version is released.

Cool, congrats. Does your computer have integrated video or a 'real' video card? Part of the problems listed above come from the fact that the Inspiron uses an integrated video card and a screwing BIOS. The problem is that XFree is unable to communicate with the bios and tell the bios how many megs the video card should use. This results in the video card only getting about 1meg of ram. Not exactly enough to properly start XFree. However, I am not convinced that this is the complete reason that I was unable to do a graphical install. I have been able to do one with Red Hat 9, Mandrake 9.2 and SUSE 9. Therefore, this, and other posts on the site here, have lead me to believe that there are other problems with the installer. hey, YMMV, unfortunately, ya gotten remember that with Linux. One thing it just doesn't do is 'just work'. For that, you need a Mac and OS X.

I ended up getting too frustrated with my little network card proble to try this, but it might work for you. http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

I have been attempting to install Mandrake 10.0 CE onto my laptop -- a Dell Inspiron 1100. To begin with, this laptop has a bug with the video bios which makes it hard to install any version of Linux onto it. However, I have successfully installed Red Hat 9 and Mandrake 9.2 onto it. Trying to install Mandrake 10.0 made me think of the first time I install Mandrake 7.something onto a computer. I had to use the text based install as the graphical install never worked. During the beginning of the install, it kept asking for a floppy with extra drivers on it and would then die if I said no. (My laptop does not have a floppy drive and I do not have some floppy with extra drivers anyways) During the install, I was asked for some mysterious 4th CD. The install said to press the cancel button if I did not have the CD. However, there was no cancel button anywhere. The only thing close was the 'Previous' button. Which I pressed. This caused something in Perl to generate and error. However, the install did continue. I finally made it through the text based install and could not get X started. Okay, this was to be expected and I fixed that with the appropriate patch. However, I could also not get my network cards working. I have a regular wired card and a wireless card. I spent about 10 different reboots and each one, another card would be recognized. I would than have to go through and configure it, using the text based tools, and then finish the boot process. However, the next boot I would have to do this all over again. Very frustrating. In addition, I have acpi on my laptop, something that Mandrake 9.2 detected and install correctly. No go with 10.0. Apparently I will have to compile my own kernel for this. Supposedly, kernel 2.6.3 is supposed to support the synaptic touchpad on my notebook. However, I was never able to get the 'tap' part to work (where you tap the touchpad to simulate a click). This is something that, once again, Mandrake 9.2 was able to configure. Yes, KDE 3.2 is very nice, although I did not really see a lot of it, but I did like it and would like to use it sometime in the future. For right now, I have removed Linux from my laptop completely and may reinstall 9.2 sometime this weekend. All-in-all, this has been the most disappointing linux install since I tried to install Mandrake the very first time about 4 years ago. Well, back to Mandrake 9.2. P.S. Not trying to bash Mandrake 10 CE, just trying to state how my install went.

You have to implement the update() method. The default update() method clears the screen everytime you issue a repaint() method call. This is why you are only getting one shape on screen.

You have to boot from the second cd? Now that's obvious :P Anyway, I downloaded the bittorrent version and was able to boot from the first CD. Although that is about as far as I got. Do maybe I will try booting from the 2nd CD.

I have done two things and the problem seems to have gone away. The first was to update the firmware of the router/firewall and the second was to increase the keep alive time to 180 secs. So far I have been able to keep an SSH connection active for the last 3 hours. This is a huge increase versus the 1-2minutes that I use to be able to get.

I am having a problem with almost any persistant network connection and I am not sure if it is because of the firewall I have or because of my ISP. To begin with, a little background. My ISP is Bell Sympatico and I have their High Speed Edition (HSE) which is a standard DSL connection running at 3Mbps download. The firewall that I have is a Linksys BEFSX41 - Instant Broadband™EtherFast®Cable/DSL Firewall Router with 4-Port Switch/VPN End. Quite a nice little unit. Now for the details of the problem: Any time I open an ssh connection, the connection will eventually get cut-off. Now, before you tell me that the problem lies with the ssh server that I am connecting to, here are some facts. The ssh server belongs to several different servers at my university. Before going with Sympatico HSE, I was with Rogers Highspeed (cable) and could leave SSH connected for days. I have talked with other students since changing to Sympatico and they assure me that they are able to be connected to school via SSH for days. I did purchase the firewall last november, before that I was using Smoothwall. However, I am certain that this problem existed even with that firewall in place. So, the question is twofold then: (1) is there anyway that this is a function of the firewall? (2) is there anyone who is with Sympatico HSE that is having the same or similiar problems? Just to clarify, this is not a Linux problem as I have the same problems regardless of OS. I also have the same problem with ftp and, from the looks of things, any tcp based connection. UDP based streaming connections do not seem to have this problem. Although I have not fully tested this to ensure that this division does exist between the protocols. Anyone have any ideas?

Is this edition available in bittorrent form anywhere?

What are you doing that makes the difference? Is there something that you are changing in the configuration that makes it so you can access the server internally and not externally and vice versa? Also, have you tried setting it so that the server can be accessed externally and then you try to access it using either http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1?

How are you and your friends trying to access apache? What IP address are you trying to use and what IP are your friends trying?

Just wondering why you need another computer in order to set a static IP address on your Linux box? This can be setup directly from within Mandrake. Anyway, first question: do you have any kind of firewall running on the Mandrake box? Also, is the network adapter (ethernet card) correctly recognized and setup, no configuration problems with the card? In addition, are you sure that the router/firewall is setup to handle DHCP? Just a few question.

Interesting news. It will be interesting to see what Macromedia does over the next little while. Actually, beyond the possibility of porting Flash (which is much more than simple animation) or even Dreamweaver (which would be very cool) to Linux is the possibility of porting Fireworks and/or Freehand to Linux. Both of these packages compete directly with Adobe programs -- photoshop/image ready and Illustrator. If Macromedia ports their main graphic apps to Linux, it may put pressure on Adobe to port their apps as well. Also, who really cares what Mr. RMS thinks. For linux to be viewed as a "real" operating system, it needs to acceptance of some of these big companies and it needs non-gpl apps to run on it. The 3D world already has most of their apps running on Linux (XSI, Maya, Houdini, etc), it is about time that the graphics and web world had their tools ported.

Yeah, of course you can do this. And don't worry about the benchmarks, Samba is at least, if not faster, than windows. Mapping the Samba shares to windows drives and allowing Read/Write permissions is very easy. If you have any more questions, like how to set everything up, just ask. Hint: The MOST important thing to remember when setting up Samba is to remember to enable encrypted passwords. FYI: NAS stands for Network Area Storage and is very different from what you are looking for. Here is a good, if brief, intro to NAS

To be honest, the easiest thing to do would be to reinstall Mandrake. At the end of the install, there is a configuration screen that lists all the different hardware elements of your computer. What did that screen say for your particular Monitor/Video Card combination? Did you ever test the screen resolution / setup during the install? If the answer to any of the above questions is "I don't know", then I would strongly suggest doing a reinstall, keeping a watch out for the final configuration screen and ensuring that your monitor/video card are properly setup. Also, make sure you test the configuration while you in the install process. The best place to go for information concerning a monitor is the website of the manufacturer of the monitor. If you dig enough, most sites will list all the tech specs for the products that they sell.

Yeah, when you update Mozilla using the file from the mozilla.org website, it does not actually update the version of mozilla installed with Mandrake. Instead, it installs a new, more recent version of Mozilla. This can have its advantages and its disadvantages, it all depends on how integrated you want Mozilla to be. Personally, I have never really had a problem with this, but that is just me. Follow the steps in the post above to point everything to the new install.

Yep, absolutely. However, keep in mind that it is in your home directory that a lot of confige files are placed. So if there is a problem with one of those config files, then that problem will persist after a fresh install. In addition, if you are upgrading to a newer version of Mandrake, you me be left with config files for older versions of software. If you are doing a fresh install, then a smart thing to do is to go into your home directory and delete as many files starting with a '.' (a dot) that you can find. OR, better yet, just change the name of those files, i.e., change .kde to .kde.old. This way, you can keep the folders and the config files inside them while still avoiding problems with the fresh install. Afterwards, you can either delete the old folders if you are happy with the new install, or transfer over some config files and see how things go.

Okay, but what about digitally signing emails. I tend to agree with the encrypting part, but I would still like a way to prove that an email, or a file, is actually from me. Is this a waste of time as well? Are there other ways of digitally signing emails?

I want to start encrypting some of the data that is on my computer as well as I want to be able to encrypt and sign the email that I am sending out. However, I do not know a lot about pgp type encryption. So, I am looking for two things: 1. A list of programs that will work on both windows and linux to manage encryption. Any suggestions must meet certain requirements: * Must have a graphical front end - I am not messing about with a command line with this * be easy and straight forward to use * must manage the uploading/downloading of any and all public keys * must handle email encryption and signing as well * must have similiar counterparts on windows 2. I am also looking for a few links that will explain how to use the above programs. I do not want to become an expert on encryption. I want to learn just enough about the process in order to use it correctly. Is this too much to ask of Linux? Is encryption really one of those things that separates the newbies from the l33t? Part of the reason that I want to do this is to both set it up on several of my computers to make my life a little more secure and to see how hard it is for a normal person to adopt email and file encryption into their everyday life. There is no use in doing all this if I have no one to send encrypted emails to. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I would not rule out college courses, or continueing education courses, so quickly. There are lots of school that offer courses in C, C++, Java, etc. Going to school does not necessarily mean VB and Windows. In terms of IDE's, check out either Anjuta or KDevelop. Both are excellent for creating C/C++ programs. Also, check the documentation on your computer. Both KDevelop and QT Designer come with a ton of it. In terms of books, check out anything from either Wrox or O'reilly. You can not go wrong with either one. If you want to learn Java programming, check out the java website - http://www.javasoft.com There are a ton of tutorials there starting at the very beginning to more advanced topics.

You have two methods: 1. Go to the start menu -> applications -> monitoring -> Xkill Click on XKill and then when the cursor changes, click on whatever app is misbehaving and it will kill it for you. 2. Open up a terminal and type in killall app-name (replace app-name with whatever program is acting up). The only problem with this is that the name of the app and the name of the process may not be that same. So, you can always do this $ ps -ef | more This will list all the processes running on your computer. Find the one that you need to kill and then issue the above command (killall app-name) to remove it.

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Explain your reasoning behind this please, since the software in the router is acting as a gateway to the internet? As for security, it all depends on the software/hardware built into the router. (I would ensure that if you are using setup 1 then your router also has a firewall component to it). Setup 1 is the one that I use. Also, for security, in a network situation, I would never put a computer that you are going to be using for everyday use directly on the internet. I would always hide it behind a firewall/router piece of hardware somehow -- whether that is a box from linksys or it is a dedicated router/firewall that you put together yourself. As for making it easier to expose things like web servers or ftp servers, all routers have that ability to do port forwarding. This allows you to directly control which ports are open and which services are exposed. In addition, if you go with setup 2, you are going to need to implement some form of firewall on the linux computer. This is going to present a serious roadblock to filesharing. Not that it makes it impossible, it just makes it more difficult. My $0.02 CAD